Senior Manager, Corporate Finance

About this role

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity : We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration : Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment : We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone.  We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.   At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity : We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration : Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment : We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone.  We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your role: 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 deli

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