Job Description
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.
The A Side: A Day in the Life
To deliver a high-quality control environment and contribute to the Universal UK recorded music division's compliance with SoX.
This role would see you working closely with the Head of Accounting, Group FD and the Dutch based global controls assurance team, with the goal of driving improvement across the controls environment.
A key aspect of this engaging with different teams across the business, working collaboratively with these stakeholders to improve the control environment.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Key component of the UK recorded music controls and compliance team, to ensure the division is compliant with SoX requirement. This will include:
* Monitoring of compliance of controls
* Leading discussions with various business units to improve and update controls, this will include feeding back issues with existing processes
* Key point of contact for UMG Global Controls Assurance team
* Liaising with numerous other departments to improve control environment and processes
* Performing walkthroughs of controls
* Operating effectiveness testing
* Ad hoc work as required – providing support to the Head of Accounting
Person Specification
* Qualified ACCA/ACA
* Experience in internal audit/controls (including SoX experience)
* Proactive approach and willingness to take ownership of tasks
* Ability to communicate and work at all levels with a large number of stakeholders i.e. staff to senior management
* Problem solving and decision-making skills
* Systems experience of SAP, HFM, Blackline and Metric-stream desirable
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
* Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
* Private Medical Insurance
* 25 paid days of annual leave
* Interest Free Season Ticket Loan available
* Holiday Purchase scheme
* Dental and Travel Insurance options
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Salary Sacrifice Cars
* Subsidised Gym Membership
* Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.