A little bit about our team:

The WMX Finance team supports the global merchandising, artist services, and supply chain within WMX. We partner closely with commercial, creative, and operational leaders to drive financial performance, improve visibility across complex revenue streams, and enable scalable growth across touring, e-commerce, retail, and licensing channels.

Your role

WMX is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Merch Finance to be responsible for the day-to-day financial operations and FP&A processes for the global merchandising organization.  Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Global Merch Finance, this role acts as the analytical engine of the team ensuring forecasting accuracy, building robust financial models, and providing critical data support to help commercial and operational leaders optimize profitability across a multi-channel global business.

Here you’ll get to:

• Partner directly with merchandising, e-commerce, and commercial managers to help track, analyze, and translate business performance against financial goals.

• Prepare complex financial modeling and analysis for upcoming artist deals and new business opportunities, evaluating IRR, NPV, royalties, advances, recoupment, and profit share.

• Manage the day-to-day coordination and consolidation of the annual budget, quarterly forecasting cycles, and long-range planning (LRP) for the US merchandising business.

• Variance & KPI Tracking: Deliver detailed U,S monthly variance analysis and maintain operational dashboards tracking key indicators such as revenue per head, margins, inventory turns, and sell-through.

• Analyze US tour profitability structures (venue commissions, per-head metrics) and e-commerce performance measurements (conversion, AOV, marketing ROI) to identify optimization areas.

• Coordinate with Accounting and Shared Services to support the monthly US close process, track cash flow forecasting, and ensure integrity in revenue recognition across business models.

• Support data flow improvements, system enhancements, and finance transformation initiatives to drive automation and scalable reporting solutions.

• Supervise, mentor, and develop a manager and a financial analyst, ensuring high-quality outputs and clear career progression.

About you:

• 7–10 years (for Director) or 5–7 years (for Senior Manager) of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, or Accounting.

• Hands-on experience supporting merchandising, e-commerce, retail, or multi-channel supply chain businesses.

• Strong financial modeling abilities, with practical experience calculating IRR, NPV, and ROI for business decisions

• Proven understanding of core corporate finance principles, including P&L management, forecasting, and cash flow tracking.

• Direct experience managing, mentoring, or supervising junior analysts.

• Excellent technical proficiency in Excel, pivot tables and data manipulation.

We’d love it if you also had:

• Background in music, live entertainment, merchandising, or direct-to-consumer (DTC) channels.

• Experience working across international markets or matrixed corporate structures.

• CPA, CFA, or MBA qualification.

• Experience using ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and modern financial reporting/BI tools.

• Previous exposure to finance transformation, data migration, or process improvement projects.

Key attributes:

• Operationally minded with strong commercial foresight and attention to detail.

• Highly collaborative teammate who can easily build trust with cross-functional peers.

• Proactive problem-solver who enjoys rolling up their sleeves to dig into data.

• Comfortable leading multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, fluid environment.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complex data into clear, actionable summaries.

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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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.