Senior Finance Manager - Global Process & Operations

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. 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 UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com. We are looking for an experienced finance professional to join our Global Finance Operations team.   This is a key role in a global finance organisation, with ownership of finance and royalty-related processes across accounting, reporting, process governance, and continuous improvement. The role requires a strong accounting foundation, solid business understanding, and the ability to drive initiatives across functions, countries, and systems. Our team acts as global process owners for finance and royalty processes, including accounting and reporting to the group's Corporate Finance team. We work closely with local finance teams, Corporate Finance, IT, solution architects, business stakeholders, and external partners to ensure that our processes are robust, compliant, efficient, and scalable.  The company currently operates on SAP ECC, with Analysis for Office, BlackLine, and Hyperion HFM integrations. Experience from ERP transformation or transition projects would be highly valuable.    The Role   In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining, improving, and developing global finance processes with a particular focus on accounting, royalty-related processes, reporting, and finance process governance.  This role could be an excellent next step for a qualified accountant, management accountant, financial accountant or finance professional who has developed a strong understanding of end-to-end accounting processes and is looking to move into a broader finance operations role. You do not need to come from a project management or dedicated process transformation background. We are primarily looking for someone with strong accounting knowledge who understands how finance works in practice and is interested in using that…