VP, Corporate Control Champion Lead

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.

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, Corporate Control Champion Lead

A little bit about our team:

The Warner Music Group Control Champion Team’s objective is to provide high quality SOX and control compliance support for each of our respective labels and affiliates across the globe. Our work includes SOX and non-SOX control compliance support, in addition to proactively being involved in other major critical initiatives for the business including major system implementations, process changes and acquisitions. We strive to be valuable business partners that provide substantial insight and support to assist our finance teams. We work closely with both the WMG Internal Audit function and our external auditors to ensure close coordination and alignment on control compliance initiatives and approach to mitigating risk across our business.  Our success is measured by the amount of internal control improvement, risk mitigation and overall positive change that we drive across the organization.  We are looking for dynamic, creative problem solvers to help us on our journey. 

Your role:

You will report directly to the SVP, Assistant Controller and collaborate with members of senior management all over the world. You will be responsible for leading the Global Control Champion team and overseeing the team’s day-to-day including planning, execution, and reporting deliverables that drive results, accountability, and the perception of real value to our business leaders.  This role is New York based with three direct reports that are located in each of our four key regions (EMEA, APAC, NAMER). 

Here you’ll get to:

• Lead the Global Control Champion Team, running three direct reports that are located in each of our three key regions across the globe.

• Be the Corporate lead to support various control and process initiatives at the Corporate level, including SOX 404 requirements for complex transaction, M&A activity, system integrations, etc, partnering closely with WMG Corporate Finance.

• Directly lead and oversee the controls implementation for our Global Finance Transformation (FIT) project partnering closely with the transformation team and business to ensure controls are properly implemented upon launch

• Develop the Annual Control Project Plan in collaboration with members of management, including the SVP, Assistant Controller and WMG Internal Audit to actively measure team performance with a reprioritization of goals/initiatives based on latest projects and business changes.

• Deliver training, provide police updates/guidance and other control compliance resources to support our global finance community with a focus on continuing to strengthen the Company’s global control environment.

• Provide meaningful insights and recommendations to business partners in order to enhance process and control compliance.

• Coordinate closely with the WMG Internal Audit function and external auditors to ensure an aligned approach on annual control compliance support initiatives, control remediation and approach to mitigate risk across our business.

• Stay current on emerging risks applicable to the Company and the broader environment and apply this perspective to strengthen the Company’s risk management position.

• Directly participate in the WMG’s finance transformation initiative with a focus on approaches to mitigate risk and control design as a new system is rolled out globally.

• Establish and maintain excellent relationships within the team and across the business.

• Provide creative input that will drive greater efficiency and value to the audit process.

About you:

• Exhibit strong leadership skills with a history of supporting and advising senior management of issues related to risk and control.

• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, able to quickly grasp the Company’s operations and business drivers – with high change agility to respond to changes in the business.

• Exhibit a strong understanding of GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley, financial controls, IT controls and leading business practices.

• Demonstrate the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects and resources simultaneously.

• Demonstrated ability to develop a high-performance team, engage and mentor them.

• Exhibit flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities and assignments as they are identified and to assist with various ad hoc projects as needed.

• Prove an ability to work both independently while managing a team, shifting between the role of a leader and individual contributor.

• Maintain a high standard of ethics and professionalism

We’d love it if you also had:

• Minimum 12+ years of relevant accounting experience, including internal controls and Sarbanes Oxley compliance

• Public accounting experience required

• CPA license required

• Previous multinational public company control compliance experience, internal audit experience or business operational role in finance a plus

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, 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. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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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.

Salary Range

$190,000 - $210,000 Annually

Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

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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