Analyst, Finance

Warner Music Group’s Center of Excellence for Shared Services provides financial, legal, and administrative support to all U.S. record labels, publishing, and artist & label services divisions. The Nashville center embraces a hybrid work schedule that blends in‑office and virtual days.

• Prepare, analyze, and distribute participation profit share and distribution statements according to contractual agreements.
• Compile and review transactional data to support statement reporting.
• Interpret, summarize artist and label contracts, create related statements and financial schedules, and provide contractual and financial data for deal models and analysis.
• Apply financial accounting skills: review profitability analysis, identify variances and trends, create commentary to explain insights from financial statements, perform reconciliations, update cash forecasts and budgets, and investigate audit issues and claims.
• Follow department financial controls and policies, communicate deficiencies and gaps to management.
• Maintain vendor master data, input, code, and coordinate payments.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company, follow up open work items, and respond to requests from internal and external partners.
• Communicate status and, when appropriate, elevate issues to the manager.
• Learn WMG operational and accounting systems, and develop expertise in participations accounting and operations.
• Represent and contribute to the culture of the Participations group.

• BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance‑related fields.
• 0–2 years of experience in a related capacity.
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Effective interpersonal skills; able to work cross‑functionally and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, execute tasks with accuracy, and deliver under pressure.
• Ability to understand complex information quickly, break it down, and communicate it to others.

• Entertainment, media, or music industry experience in participations/royalties or a similar role.
• Financial statement preparation background.
• Technically savvy and exposure to SAP S4‑HANA, MS Teams, and SharePoint.

Salary Range: $22.00 to $25.64 hourly.

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.