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Director, Global Sync Operations and Strategy

Warner Music Group

Los Angeles, California, 90021

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Salary:

$90000 - $110000 Year

Job type:

Monday to Friday
Others

Job Schedule:

Morning shift
Day shift
Evening shift
Night shift
Others

Job benefits:

Health insurance
Paid time off
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Infertility and Family Planning
Family Support Offerings
Family Caregiver Leave
Health Savings Account
Life Insurance
Disability Coverage
Voluntary Plans
others

Description:

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.

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, 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: Director, Global Sync Operations & Strategy

A little bit about our team:
The Global Sync and Visual Media Licensing (VML) department represents recorded music sync rights for Warner Music Group & (WMG’s) artists and offers clients a comprehensive sync licensing service. They work to serve WMG & extensive catalog and the company's frontline record labels by strategically developing new opportunities in film, television, advertising, video games, and new media.

Your role:
This role will directly report to the Executive Vice President, Global Sync and U.S. Visual Media Licensing and will be working closely with the Global and US Sync Licensing teams and various corporate functions such as label and territory CFOs, WMG’s Center of Excellence (COE), etc. This newly created position is a combination of operations, strategy, and business/ financial analysis!

Here you’ll get to:

Lead actuals, forecast, and budget reporting packages for CFO and Global Sync Executives. Support the development/updates to performance dashboards & management reporting tools

Support Global Sync executive team with developing financial models and strategic assessments to address key business issues, e.g., business and operational planning, evaluation of new business models, key deals and postmortem analyses, emerging technologies and innovations, competitive analyses, media landscape overviews, programming and content deals, ROI analyses of Global Sync and VML investments in new businesses and technologies, etc.

Handle the reporting and analysis process encompassing monthly reporting over actual and forecast results. This includes coordination with the COE to properly report and analyze Global Sync & VML operating performance

Additional reporting includes but is not limited to ad-hoc analyses, reports (artist and label sync history reports, sync category reporting, market research, etc.), and presentations for the executive team to understand key business drivers and variances

Handle the accounts receivables database for all invoices issued with licenses and facilitate the collections process with the admin team and coordinate income tracking

Assist with ad-hoc invoice submissions, coding, vendor set-up requests, and payment status tracking for invoices

Cultivate relationships with global and domestic CFOs and their finance teams receiving objective accounting perspectives including insight into the sync business, revenue snapshot reports and annual budget, and monthly/quarterly forecasting modeling

Skill:

You have outstanding organization and follow-up skills
Ability to work proactively
independently
and as a strategic partner in a team environment
Proactive
identify challenges
problem solve
and offer creative and innovative solutions
Compelling storytelling skills
analyzing and reporting insights in a clear
cohesive
and accurate manner
Strong ability to interface and build relationships with internal and external contacts at all levels
others

Others Requirements:

5+ years professional experience with experience in financial reporting
business analysis
operations
and strategy
Prior experience in the Music Industry
Strong digital literacy and experience with SAP
Oracle
and HFM are a plus
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent experience
others

Category:

Finance

Positions:

3

Location:

In-person