Senior Manager, Merch 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 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. We ignite passions and build connections across our global community. 

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent, acting with integrity and delivering on our promises. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. We are committed to creating a work environment that values, appreciates, and respects everyone, and 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.

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.

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