Financial Analyst

Concord Music Group, Inc; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent music company is seeking a Financial Analyst in London. This hybrid role involves managing marketing budgets, collaborating with labels, and providing financial insights. Ideal candidates will have a background in finance, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in financial tools.

Benefits

Private medical and dental insurance

Generous time off

Charity match

Paid time off for volunteering

Qualifications

• 1-3 years’ experience in financial planning or budget management.
• Strong proficiency in financial tools and advanced Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize marketing budgets across various labels.
• Track and analyze monthly marketing campaigns and provide variance explanations.
• Generate monthly marketing finance reports for each label.

Skills

Analytical

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

Tools

IBM Cognos

Planning Analytics

Excel

Job description

Overview

Concord is the world’s leading independent music company. The Company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally. Concord's growing catalog of 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals is one of the most impactful and culturally relevant collections of creative rights in history.

Concord is headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Miami.

As the Financial Analyst, you'll be responsible for managing and optimizing marketing budgets across our Catalog, Frontline labels and KidzBop. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with our record labels and shared services team to ensure accurate financial management and support strategic decision-making. We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Financial Analyst based in London to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

• Collaborates with labels to ensure Marketing budgetary needs are managed and achieved.
• Budget Management: Oversee and manage marketing budgets across Concord’s Catalog, Frontline labels and KidzBop, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Financial Monitoring: Track and analyze monthly marketing campaigns, providing variance explanations and ensuring campaigns stay within approved budgets.
• Accruals Manage the Marketing Expense accrual process, working closely with the labels and accounting team to submit month-end accruals with maximum accuracy.
• Reporting: Generate and distribute comprehensive monthly marketing finance reports for each label.
• Forecasting: Work with labels to stay aware of changes to their release schedules and actively participate in FP&A’s Live Forecast process to reforecast marketing expenditures for future projects.
• Collaboration: Meet regularly with labels to discuss ongoing budgetary needs, spend activity and future fund allocation.
• Strategic Contribution: Support the FP&A team in delivering financial insights and recommendations that enhance marketing effectiveness and resource allocation.

Qualifications

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance or related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Minimum 1-3 years’ experience in financial planning, analysis, or budget management within the music, entertainment, or a related industry.
• Strong proficiency in financial tools and software, IBM Cognos and Planning Analytics a plus, with advanced Excel skills (e.g., VLOOKUPs, pivot tables).
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen eye for report design and detail.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with diverse teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

*This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days minimum on-site.

At Concord, we offer competitive salaries, private medical and dental insurance, generous time off, charity match, paid time off for volunteering and a culture committed to supporting everyone’s growth and development.

Concord is an equal opportunity employer. We employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of age, gender assignment, marital status, pregnancy, disability, race, religion, sex as required by law. We believe that diversity, inclusion and equity is paramount for the creation of music, theatre and film that celebrates and empowers all cultures.