Sr. Analyst, Financial

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.
 

Job Title:  Sr. Analyst, Financial

A little bit about our team:

Warner Music Group's Global Business Services (GBS) is home to the finance operations, legal, and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our global Finance labels and affiliates. Each regional center embodies the collaboration and creative spirit that stems from the company’s deep history in championing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities. Based out of Nashville, our US Participations team is fully remote and committed to supporting all U.S. record labels, and artist & label services divisions.

We’re excited to hear from high-performing finance and audit professionals who are ready to apply their elite analytical skills to a specialized, high-stakes environment. We are looking for "detective-minded" analysts with a
passion for music, who thrive on uncovering the why behind the numbers and who possess the commercial acumen to translate complex legal logic into precise financial outputs.

Why this could be your next big break:

You are a highly autonomous finance professional who takes immense pride in ownership and accountability. You don't just process data; you interrogate it. You thrive in environments where you are expected to be a subject matter expert, serving as a trusted point of contact for both stakeholders across the company, and your peers.

This role is perfect for someone coming from a meticulous Audit, Commercial Finance, or Financial Reporting background who is ready to move into a fast-paced, dynamic industry. You’ll be given the space to work independently, but you’ll do so through a lens of deep collaboration—mentoring analysts and acting as a liaison financial accounting, royalty operations and our business. If you enjoy the challenge of high-volume data, complex financial calculations, and the satisfaction of delivering accurate insights under tight deadlines, this is your next step.

Here you’ll get to:

Financial Controllership & Statement Insights

• End-to-End Ownership: Run the preparation and analysis of sophisticated participation profit-share and distribution financial statements. You will ensure every output aligns with both unique contractual obligations and meticulous accounting standards.
• Financial Accounting Mastery: Lead fiscal month-end close tasks, including complex true-ups, reconciliations, and expense accruals. You will act as the link between statement reporting and general ledger accuracy, ensuring financial integrity for the labels you support.
• Analytical Integrity & Oversight: Act as the team’s primary “Variance Detective” and quality gatekeeper. You will interrogate the “how” and “why” behind data fluctuations to provide clear narratives for management while reviewing peer statements to ensure the highest standards of precision, audit-readiness, and internal control compliance.

Contractual Intelligence & Strategic Data Analysis

• Contractual Interpretation: Translate complex artist and label legal agreements into functional financial models. You will identify and comprehend intricate deal terms and apply them to large-scale data sets to ensure reporting accuracy and rigor.
• Data-Driven Strategic Support: Compile and analyze vast sets of transactional data to support statement reporting, budgets, and cash forecasts. You will provide critical financial data for deal models and audit responses, ensuring the Participations group remains a value-add partner to the wider organization.
• Risk Mitigation & Resolution: Proactively investigate artist inquiries, data issues or audit claims with a focus on mitigating financial risk. You are expected to anticipate future roadblocks and suggest resolutions to
  management before they impact deadlines or relationships.

Collaboration, Mentorship & Process Innovation

• Peer Leadership & Mentorship: Take an active role in team development by guiding analysts, providing ongoing review feedback, and facilitating training sessions for new hires to demonstrate best practices in Participations accounting.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company—from label finance and legal teams to senior executives—acting as a trusted partner with a high degree of professional IQ and responsiveness.
• Process Transformation: Contribute to the evolution of the department by identifying inefficiencies and implementing technology-driven solutions. You will champion automation initiatives and process improvements that drive team-wide excellence and scalable growth.

About you:

• Education & Experience: BA/BS degree required (Accounting or Finance preferred) with 3-5 years of
  professional experience in a complex financial capacity.

• Technical Power-User: Advanced proficiency with MS Excel is crucial. You should be extremely
  comfortable with complex calculations and working with large, disparate data sets.

• Accounting Fluency: You have a solid grasp of financial accounting principles and how they apply to P&L statements, reconciliations, fiscal close processes and internal controls.

• Analytical Autonomy: You have strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proven track record of taking full ownership of your work. You are self-driven, highly organized, and able to execute with accuracy and deliver under pressure.

• Elite Communicator: You can distill complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for internal customers and possess the leadership traits necessary to mentor peers.

We’d love it if you also had:

• Experience in Music, Media, or Entertainment (specifically in Participations, Royalties or Audit).
• Proficiency with SAP S4 Hana, SAP Analysis for Office, BI and SharePoint.
• A natural technical curiosity, and digital innovation having leveraged Generative AI tools to automate manual workflows and drive efficiency in finance operations.
• Proven success working in a fully remote, Shared Services environment.

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.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

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.
 

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Links to relevant documents:

2026 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf

EVerify Participation Poster.pdf

Right To Work .pdf