Reporting to the Senior Director, the Senior Manager of Corporate Finance will play a leadership role on the team responsible for global finance oversight. This is an autonomous, hands-on role where you will oversee controllership across a broad, multi-department portfolio of centrally managed departments while remaining actively involved in the day-to-day execution of month-end close, forecasting, and operational finance tasks. You will collaborate with senior leadership across numerous departments, regional finance leads globally, Corporate Finance, and Regional Offices to drive strategic alignment and financial accountability.

Here you’ll get to:

• Fully own the budget across a broad portfolio of centrally managed departments, building an effective forecasting process and ensuring we hit budget by understanding the numbers, identifying risks early, and proactively partnering with senior department heads to implement cost-mitigation or reallocation strategies, not just reporting.

• Lead monthly financial close and reporting processes for centrally managed departments, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with corporate reporting standards.

• Lead the consolidated review of centrally managed departments’ P&L—personally building detailed Excel variance models and summaries—while synthesizing complex data into both department-level and consolidated executive-ready summaries of spend vs. budget and progress to targets for senior leadership across multiple departments.

• Establish advanced tracking, risk identification, and solution recommendations with enough lead time to act, producing clean, accurate, and actionable financial visibility.

• Oversee headcount, payroll, and bonus-related expense reviews, ensuring appropriate accruals, allocations, cost tracking and reporting across an expanded scope of global departments.

• Act as a senior finance business partner and strategic advisor to global stakeholders across numerous departments (e.g., A&R, Marketing, Sync, Catalog, Finance/Executive, and other centrally managed functions), providing actionable insights through regular actuals and forecast review discussions.

• Facilitate cross-affiliate recharges for central marketing campaigns and funds, as well as maintenance and facilitation of ad-hoc central funding pools.

• Remain deeply hands-on with operational finance execution, partnering cross-functionally with Finance SSC and Procurement teams to directly handle and oversee journal entries troubleshooting, PO approvals, invoice coding, and issue resolution, bridging the gap between finance and the wider business. 

• Own and maintain complex global reporting schedules, including but not limited to department overhead spend performance, M&A legal fee tracking, and SG&A savings initiatives.

• Support internal and external audit requirements, including local statutory audit deliverables and documentation readiness.

• Drive continuous improvement of reporting processes by enhancing templates, streamlining workflows, and improving forecasting/actuals review efficiency.

• Lead and hands-on build the financial modeling and detailed buildup for the annual Budget and 3-Year Plan across a broad portfolio of centrally managed departments, partnering directly with executive leadership to align resources with long-term strategic goals.

• Respond to ad-hoc financial reporting requests, providing clear insights and actionable recommendations to business leaders.

About you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics – CPA preferred but not required

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with a proven track record of managing complex financial operations and cross-functional partnerships.

• An owner mentality, comfortable leading executive-level discussions while remaining deeply willing and able to get into the daily weeds of POs, journal entries, and detailed Excel modeling.

• Driver of change and development of ‘best in class’ processes and reporting

• High sense of ownership and personal accountability for deliverables and departmental financial performance.

• Demonstrated track record of independently managing end-to-end multi-departmental budgets and proactively resolving variance risks without requiring step-by-step oversight.

• Excellent analytical, visualization, and storytelling skills—proven ability to translate complex financial data into clear, executive-level presentations, narrative-driven insights, and actionable recommendations for C-suite, senior leadership, and non-finance department heads.

• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively influence senior stakeholders across multiple functions.

• Advanced Excel proficiency required; strong adaptability and demonstrated success navigating ERPs, financial planning tools (e.g., SAP, Anaplan, or Hyperion), and leveraging AI tools to automate reporting workflows.

• Experience within the music industry is a plus

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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