VP Revenue Finance Processing

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:

• 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.

• Global Growth, Local Expertise : Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.

• Innovation and Insight : Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.

• E mpowered by P eople : 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, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other 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.

Job Title: VP, Revenue Finance Processing

A little bit about our team:

Warner Music’s Global Service Center Revenue Team collects and consolidates revenue for the company and works with other service center teams to provide best-in-class services to our global Finance labels and affiliates.

Your role :

The VP, Revenue will lead the operationalization of our new Revenue operations across the global finance organization including maintaining operational and delivery efficiency, continuous improvement, risk mitigation and resolution. This is an essential role that requires strong leadership abilities to advance our integrated approach and enable continued transformation, innovation and growth for the global Finance organization. The team is responsible for gathering data files, processing and allocating revenue, and assuring compliance with contracts across all revenue streams. The department assists affiliates, working across time zones and with many teams across many countries.

Here you’ll get to:

• Oversee ingestion and allocation processes and global revenue for the digital, physical, licensing, broadcast and sync ingestion in SAP

• Onboarding of new DSP (Digital Service Provider) deals and other commercial agreements

• Manage revenue assurance to ensure full compliance on all DSP agreements and escalate where necessary. Including format, commercial terms, liaise with order to cash leads on timeliness of payments.

• Assure that all contracts are recorded and updated in the system timely

• Measure and resolve suspense items

• Supporting RTR team on revenue recognition including advances, minimum guarantees, accruals and breakage

• Assure that all relevant information is processed and available to RTR team as per close calendar

• Work closely with Tech to assure all revenue files and interfaces are routed/functioning as designed

• Manage cross border team across several geographic locations

• Maintain engagement with internal business development and business affairs teams

• Deliver performance in line with KPIs and SLAs

About you :

• You have a bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations or a related field

• You have several years of leadership experience in a similar position

• You have proven experience building and leading a team and managing customer relationships

• You have an ability to drive change initiatives as required to improve efficiencies and execution on business commitments

• You have an ability to lead service delivery that continuously surpasses client and customer expectations

• You have experience evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement and developing/implementing solutions

• Youare capable of managing data intensive and complex business processes

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We’d love it if you also had :

• MBA or master's degree

   

About us:

As the home to 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, 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 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.

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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.

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