Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Deals

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Deals

Job Description:

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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

1. Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
2. Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
3. Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
4. Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, and any other protected characteristic or identity.

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 broad FP&A group is responsible for providing financial and strategic support to all areas of WMG including Recorded Music, Music Publishing and Corporate.

Your role:

This position fulfils a unique role which focuses on supporting Group’s deal process from start to finish and involves but is not limited to: deal planning and structuring, due diligence, deal closing and integration. The Director of FP&A will also support various strategic initiatives through financial modelling and long-term business planning.

Here you’ll get to:

1. Develop financial models and strategic assessments to address key business issues, including evaluation of new business models, business and operational planning, ROI analyses of WMG’s investments in new businesses and technologies, etc.
2. Support global M&A process through partnership with key stakeholders and support of team, from initial target assessment, in-depth financial modelling and market analysis, due diligence, regular executive committee updates to close and integration; conduct pre- and post-transaction M&A deal analyses and valuations.
3. Support financial due diligence on potential acquisition targets, including liaison with external advisors as well as internal analysis of target’s financial statements; coordinate and assist in other diligence workstreams.
4. Support share purchase agreement negotiations and liaise with both financial and legal advisors on key financial inputs.
5. Manage approval process for executive approval-level deals, including preparation and submission of transaction summaries.
6. Conduct Recorded Music and Music Publishing artist deal analysis.
7. Provide support for ad-hoc tasks as requested by CEO/CFO, board presentations, valuations, etc.

About you:

1. Strong understanding of finance and DCF concepts/principles in conjunction with excellent verbal, analytical, written and interpersonal skills.
2. Strong understanding of share/asset purchase agreement negotiation principles.
3. Sophisticated financial modelling skills; ability to create new models as well as ‘refresh’ existing financial models.
4. Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
5. Ability to identify and solve problems.
6. Ability to deliver value added analyses and effectively communicate results to senior management.
7. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and PowerPoint.
8. Ability to work independently as well as to work as part of a team; handle multiple tasks simultaneously, while working with a sense of urgency to meet assigned deadlines.
9. BA in Finance/Accounting/Economics preferred.
10. 9-12 years of finance-related experience (preferably from M&A, management consultancy or FP&A background).

We’d love it if you also had:

1. MBA/CFA desirable, but not required.

About us:

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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 catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We’re the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.

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.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.

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