Analyst, Participations at Warner Music Group in New York, NY

Summary: Warner Music Group is a global collective of music makers and innovators, seeking to add a member to their Participations group. The role involves preparing and analyzing profit share statements, managing financial data, and building relationships across the company while ensuring compliance with financial controls. Responsibilities: - Prepare, analyze, and distribute participation profit share and distribution statements according to contractual agreements - Compile and review transactional data to support statement reporting - Interpret, and summarize artist and label contracts, create related statements and financial schedules, provide contractual and financial data for deal models and analysis - Apply your 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, investigate audit issues and claims - Follow department financial controls and policies, communicate deficiencies and gaps to management - Maintain vendor master data, input, code & co-ordinate payments - Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company (up to senior executives), follow up open work items, respond to requests from internal and external partners - Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to your manager - Learn WMG operational & accounting systems, develop expertise in participations accounting & operations - Represent and contribute to the culture of the Participations group Required Qualifications: - BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields - 0-2 years of experience working in a related capacity - Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations - Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail - Effective interpersonal skills, able to work cross-functionally and communicate with internal & external stakeholders - Ability to manage multiple priorities, execute tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure - Ability to understand complex information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others Preferred Qualifications: - Entertainment, Media, or Music Industry experience working in Participations/Royalties or similar role - Financial statement preparation background - Technically savvy, exposure to SAP S4 Hana, MS Teams, SharePoint Required Skills: Financial accounting, Contract interpretation, Financial statement preparation, Data analysis, MS Excel, SAP S4 Hana, MS Teams, SharePoint, Participations accounting, Vendor master data management, Analytical skills, manage multiple priorities