Manager, Participations

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. The Nashville center embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the company’s deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities. We’re excited to hear from financial managers with success delivering process improvements, who are looking for an opportunity to manage a talented finance operations team within music! Here you’ll get to: • Manage the preparation, review, reconciliation & distribution of Participation distribution and profit share statements according to contractual agreements • Manage team workflow and delivery, meeting department service levels and KPIs • Oversee the use of systems, reporting tools and related controls to deliver accurate statements to our artists and third parties • Finalize, review & approve financial reconciliations, cash forecasts and budgets, advance recoupment and Participations expense and balance sheet entries • Oversee SOX compliance and internal controls, respond to audit requests • Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company at all levels, as a primary contact for our internal and external partners • Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to senior management • Master WMG operational & accounting systems, further expertise in participations accounting & operations • Contribute ideas and help lead process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations • Demonstrate people management capabilities: coach and develop staff and contribute to the culture of the Participations group The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.