Senior Accountant

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.

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.
Our Warner Chappell Music Taiwan office is looking for a
Senior Accountant
to support our music publishing business in Taiwan market. Reporting to the local Finance Manager, the Senior Accountant will work alongside the Finance Manager in handling full set of accounts, including but not limited to liaison with our shared service center in Kuala Lumpur for PTP, OTC and RTR activities, royalties administration, audit and compliance, reporting, budget and forecast management and any ad hoc projects as assigned. This role will also focus on continuous improvement of current processes and procedures to ensure that the Company is compliant with local accounting standards, regulations, and company policies while ensuring cost efficiency are effectively maximized.

Here You'll Get To
Payment Management

• Process vendor payments, ensuring compliance with internal policies and resolving discrepancies.
• Periodic process of Capex payment requests, maintaining accuracy and timeliness of supporting documentation.
• Monitor outstanding payments and coordinate to resolve payment issues.
• Assist with office supplies procurement.

Revenue and Cash Management (Order to Cash, OTC)

• Issue invoices, ensure accurate data alignment with the system.
• Monitor bank collections and verify payer identification for compliance.
• Prepare and provide monthly revenue reports and track accounts receivable.
• Prepare monthly allocation data reports.

General Ledger & Financial Reporting (Record to Report, RTR)

• Assist with revenue recognition processes in accordance with ASC 606 standards, preparing journal entries, month-end data, and monthly allocation data.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and perform closing procedures, ensuring compliance with SOX internal controls.
• Verify consistency between allocation data and monthly revenue reports.

Royalties

• Responsible for verifying data interfaces between SAP and the royalty reporting system, and preparing supporting documentation.
• Regularly arrange royalty payments to authors or copyright companies.
• Ensure timely updates of payment information in the system.

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

• Assist supervisors with data compilation and analysis for annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly projections.
• Support supervisors in preparing management-related financial statements and tracking reports, providing data for decision-making.

Tax

• Handle business tax declarations, withholding tax payments, and all required tax documents and online filings.
• Collaborate with auditors during audit processes, preparing financial and tax reconciliation reports.

Internal Control & Compliance

• Ensure operations comply with company policies and SOX regulations.
• Execute and optimize accounting internal control processes and risk management.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

About You

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written in Mandarin Chinese and English across all levels of an organization.
• Proficient IT skills especially with Microsoft Office and Excel functions (Vlookup, Pivot Tables). Google Workspace. Expertise in SAP system is a plus.
• Technically strong on accounting standards and tax regulations.
• Possess high level of integrity, initiative, and results-oriented.
• Sound presentation skills, in particular the presentation of financial information to non-financial managers or senior executives.
• Strong teamwork abilities and effective communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

We'd Love It If You Also Had

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field from local/ international institution
• Qualified/Semi-qualified Accountant or equivalent professional body
• Extensive experience in finance and accounting
• Experience in supporting licensing business is a plus
• Strong data analysis skills, with the ability to analyze complex information and present it clearly and concisely

About Us
At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.

As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we're a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we're committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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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