Senior Finance Manager International

Overview:

Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.

The Role

This is a new role in our structure as part of the Commercial Finance team, who are responsible for financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and cost management for both PRS and Joint Venture revenue. This role acts as the key financial business partner to the Chief International Officer and International department, ensuring that commercial decisions align with financial and strategic goals, and is also responsible for consolidation of revenue and distribution reporting across the broader Commercial Finance team.

This role has 1 direct report and reports directly into the Director of Commercial Finance.

Responsibilities:

• Be a key point of contact for stakeholders, owning communication with International, challenging stakeholders where required.
• Support key decision makers, and inputs into key strategic decisions within International, using insight and analysis to make financial based recommendations.
• Produce and circulate financial analysis, quarterly reports, and other routine management information for the Director of Commercial Finance, Board, Members Council, CEO and Leadership Team.
• Manage the consolidated reports for revenue and distributions.
• Support the monthly ELT distribution sign-off process, by contributing to the analysis of drivers of variances to Budget/Forecast.
• Ensure adequate challenge to budget holders to enable budgets to be aligned to the strategic direction of the organisation and deliver sustainable growth.
• Partner with the International department to provide financial input and assurance to deliver and optimise key International objectives including: revenue assurance; withholding tax issues; and liaising with local banking partners to ensure standardisation and engagement for KYC activities.
• Own the revenue and distribution element for long term (3 – 5 years) planning aligned to the strategic direction of the organisation.
• Motivate, engage and develop one direct report.

For a full list of duties, please email the recruitment team and request a copy of the job description.

About you:

At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:

• An accountancy qualification.
• Strategic thinking skills, able to see the big picture.
• Commercial and business acumen.
• Strong people management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills to facilitate better decision making.
• Excellent communication skills – including the ability to identify key messages and summarise complex information.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent data gathering, reporting and analysis skills.
• TM1 experience desirable.
• Experience in, and understanding of the management of performing rights and flow of rights is desirable.

What’s in it for you?

Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:

• We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
• We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
• We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact
• We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
• We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
• We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
• Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to eight weeks of the year
• Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.

The Process

Our interview process for this role is simple:

• First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.
• Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.

We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.

Location

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.

To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.

If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now.

At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.