Finance Manager - Music
Are you a numbers guru with a love for beats, bars, and balance sheets? This cutting edge music company is on the lookout for a Finance Manager to join a growing team.
The Role
Finance Manager is a management role focussed on maintaining accurate, well structured accounting systems, and through efficient management and control of company finances, influencing commercial dealings and business planning. The role includes statutory reporting and compliance work: ensuring that laws and regulations are followed and business taxes managed. This is a critically important role which underpins financial reporting and allows the Directors to make strategic and operational decisions.
The role also includes working with colleagues across the company as well as suppliers and customers, auditors and professional advisers, providing insight and advice on financial and commercial elements, deal making, efficiency, tax compliance and driving profitability.
Knowledge and Experience
To succeed in this role, candidates will possess and be able to demonstrate the following, with examples:
Experience
Supporting and working alongside the management reporting function
Financial accounting and bookkeeping, the work of a finance team, including sales, purchase and general ledgers, banking, currency management, hedging, payroll, sales taxes, corporate taxes
Preparation of statutory financial statements, audit packs, and dealing with audit processes
Compliance with rules, regulations, tax authorities in the UK and internationally
Integrating systems, migrating systems and developing systems for new business channels
Working with incomplete data, using estimates, working with live and non-static data
Presenting financial reports to teams, interpreting commercial conclusions
Supervising, teaching and training team members
Working with entrepreneurs, owner managed businesses, and leaders in creative industries
Knowledge
Recording, publishing and other music related contracts and processes of licensing music rights
Music rights management, metadata, royalties, monetising of music exploitation
Digital music and streaming services
Commercial dealings between music rights holders, artists, producers, songwriters, promoters etc
Music industry knowledge in general, including specialist genres, music communities, media landscape, developments business models and standard industry practices
Skills and Qualities
Honesty, commitment, loyalty, self-motivation, confidentiality, maturity, flexibility
Ability to work alone, equally as within a team dynamic at all levels of seniority
Comfortable managing upwards, presenting business cases to leaders, responding positively to challenge and sometimes pressure
Determination to achieve targets and goals
Desire to maintain the highest quality standards
Aptitude and enjoyment from organising and analysing minutely granular data accurately
Interpreting trends in data, and drawing commercial conclusions and recommendations
Recognising that contributing to the success of the business is not only rewarding but also offers opportunities for personal growth, skill development, and career advancement.
Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.