RTR Manager - TEMP

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 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: RTR Manager - TEMP

A little bit about our team:

The Finance Transformation team is a group of professionals across the WMG organization brought together to re-imagine our processes and systems to establish more standardized and efficient ways of working that will drive WMG’s growth and business aspirations.

Your role:

The RTR manager will support the RTR global process lead who holds a global remit and is responsible for defining the future state RTR processes and the measures that are aligned with the organizational strategies, country specific knowledge and requirements.

Here you’ll get to:

• Support the transformation team by leading cross-functional and virtual teams in the review, design, development and implementation of global processes and procedures including period-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, reporting (statutory and management), project accounting, fixed assets, tax, treasury and internal controls.
• Coordinate RTR testing across Account Reconciliations (Blackline), Period End Close (Blackline), and interfaces including Payroll
• Work closely with SAP master data management team to ensure master data configuration is consistent with global processes
• Leverage RTR and industry process and systems knowledge/experience to implement standardization of global, regional and/or local processes, challenging the status quo whilst taking input from SMRs and program partners to understand required localizations
• Own the design, documentation and ongoing socialization of processes.
• Acquire consensus to the Finance Transformation from key WMG collaborators across the globe by communicating deep operating process and systems knowledge and an appreciation of the impact at a local level
• Attend and/or present in update meetings as required for key decision/issue/risk points.
• Work with partners to ensure Product / Policy / Process / Procedure / System decisions take account of territory variances and business needs
• Partner with IT to identify integration points between existing systems and processes
• Partner with people and organizational change resources to develop job aids, communications and training approaches to embed new ways of working and systems training for the RTR area
• Act as a spokesperson across the WMG organization for the benefits delivered by the Finance Transformation
• Updates relevant RTR documentation based on changes to global template (including SOPs, User Guides, training materials)
• Participates at preparation of the RTR training materials.
• Responsible for the resolution of RTR issues, risks and business impacts for the owned process
• Actively identifies internal and external RTR strategies for improving the standard end-to-end process

About you:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in either Business, Finance, Business Information Systems, Management Science or the appropriate experience may also be considered
• 2+ years’ experience focusing on RTR, or related experience
• Strong Finance process and systems knowledge, preferably within a music industry context. 
• Facilitative style, with prior experience of leading workshops and engaging partners through a series of approaches that require a targeted level of consensus
• Relevant operational RTR experience supervising period-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, reporting (statutory and management), project accounting, fixed assets, tax, treasury and internal controls.
• Technically savvy with robust change management skills
• Experience of a previous SAP implementation is crucial
• Exemplary partner engagement and leadership skills internationally and within sophisticated, multi-layered organizations
• Strong analytical skills and ability to perform sophisticated analysis and reconciliations.
• Ability to develop, articulate and build support around a long term vision and implement incremental achievements in support of that vision
• Teammate who can collaborate with multifaceted business units to successfully implement the transformation initiatives

We’d love it if you also had:

•        Transformation leadership experience

•         Media or entertainment experience preferred

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.

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, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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