Wmg
Senior Director, Tax Reporting & Compliance
USA - New York - 1633 Broadway · Director
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 31 days ago
AccountingForecastingSAPM&ATaxAuditingLeadershipCollaborationMentoringTax ProvisionInternal AuditCFA
About the role
- This high-impact leadership roleadingves managing a mix of internal staff and third-party providers to ensure technical accuracy, process efficiency, and strategic tax planning.
- Technical Advisory: Serve as a subject matter expert on sophisticated corporate and partnership tax issues, including structuring, consolidated return rules, and transaction implications.
- Audit Management: Direct Federal, state, and local tax audits, serving as a primary point of contact for auditors and external consultants.
Responsibilities
- Own the quarterly and year-end tax provision process, ensuring accurate financial statement disclosures and treatment of multi-dimensional issues.
- Produce critical forecasts for global income tax expense, cash taxes, and effective tax rates (ETR) to support corporate budgeting.
- Identify and implement domestic planning projects to optimize cash taxes and global effective tax rate.
- Provision Management: Own the quarterly and year-end tax provision process, ensuring accurate financial statement disclosures and treatment of multi-dimensional issues.
- Forecasting: Produce critical forecasts for global income tax expense, cash taxes, and effective tax rates (ETR) to support corporate budgeting.
- M&A Support: Provide guidance on the tax implications of business acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations, including due diligence and international tax projects.
- Value Creation: Identify and implement domestic planning projects to optimize cash taxes and global effective tax rate.
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Requirements
- Undergraduate degree required
- 10-15 years of tax experience, including time at both a major U.S. accounting firm and a U.S.-based multinational corporation.
- Experience with HFM, SAP/S4, and OneSource Tax Provision.
- Ability to translate highly complex tax issues into clear, actionable communications.
Nice to have
- Experience in industries with similar business dynamics and requirements preferred
- Music industry experience is an advantage
- MBA and/or CFA preferred
Skills
- Strong leadership skills with a results-oriented approach and a sense of urgency.
Compensation
- $230,000 to $260,000 AnnuallySalary 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.
Benefits
- 2026 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf
Company info
- 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:
- 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.
- WMG Finance is a global finance organization designed to partner and implement growth, fuel & accelerate artist/songwriter deal making, and provide timely and accurate financial data, to ensure sound financial decisions and complete our strategic goals.
- We expect financial rigor, accuracy and completeness of financial statements and monitoring compliance with accounting policies and procedures.
- In addition, the finance department is responsible for ensuring that internal control policies are adequate and implemented.
- And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
- Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds.
Equal opportunity
- Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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