Finance Analyst – Kings Cross, London London, England
Universal Music Group
Full Time
London, England
29599 - 63535 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email [email protected].
The A Side: A Day in The Life
To support the Senior Commercial Finance Manager with all aspects of commercial planning. The role will also partner with the digital content and production teams with developing financial processes that will support their operation, analyse and evaluate production costs effectiveness, drives capital allocation, amortisation and expenses.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
- To support on all aspects of financial and commercial planning
- Support the preparation and presentation of monthly management reports, providing insights of opportunities and risks against the business plan
- Assist with the development of monthly rolling forecasts and updates to the long-range plan
- Ensure adherence to investment and cost budgets and drive project cost reporting, covering both the P&L and Cashflow
- Assist with developing content segmentation across our inventory to enable meaningful reporting of content trends and margins
- Drive continuous process improvements to promote best in class reporting, meaningful analysis and actionable business insights.
- Supporting the Marketing and Digital team with tracking spend against budget and ad-hoc analysis
Person Specification
- A passion for music and filmed entertainment
- Part Qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA
- Good communication skills (verbal and written)
- Efficient and accurate delivery of reporting for a variety of stakeholders
- Team player, good at building professional relationships and adapting a personal approach to deal with different personalities
- Strong organisational skills with proven ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong computer literacy (Microsoft office), particularly with Excel and ability to learn new packages quickly
- Essential experience in using SAP, BPC, HFM or similar financial planning and reporting software
- Driven and results orientated
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
- Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
- Private Medical Insurance
- 25 paid days of annual leave
- Interest Free Season Ticket Loan available
- Holiday Purchase scheme
- Dental and Travel Insurance options
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Salary Sacrifice Cars
- Subsidised Gym Membership
- Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be indicative and not as a permanent, definitive and exhaustive statement.
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
Job Category:
Universal Music Group
www.universalmusic.fr
Paris, France
Pascal NEGRE
$100 to $500 million (USD)
501 to 1000 Employees
Company - Private
Audio/Visual
1997
