Director, Corporate Development (Maternity Cover)

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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 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.

Your Role

This position fulfills a unique role which focuses on supporting Group’s deal process from start to finish and involves but is not limited to: deal planning and structuring, due diligence, deal closing and integration. The Director, Corporate Development will also support various strategic initiatives through financial modeling and long‑term business planning.

• Assist in developing financial models and strategic assessments to address key business issues
• Provide support and carry out analysis for acquisition and investment opportunities, including financial modelling, executive summaries and board presentations
• Conduct Recorded Music and Music Publishing artist deal analysis and assist in establishing best practices and optimal deal structures at the affiliate levels
• Liaise with affiliates to provide project management support, including conducting deal analyses and preparing presentation materials and transaction summaries
• Participate in the creation and modeling of L‑T plans, and other operational planning analyses for new business initiatives

Here You’ll Get To

• Develop financial models and strategic assessments to address key business issues, including evaluation of new business models, business and operational planning, ROI analyses of WMG’s investments in new businesses and technologies, etc.
• Support global M&A process through partnership with key stakeholders and support of team, from initial target assessment, in-depth financial modelling and market analysis, due diligence, regular executive committee updates to close and integration; conduct pre‑and post‑transaction M&A deal analyses and valuations
• Support financial due diligence on potential acquisition targets, including liaison with external advisors as well as internal analysis of target’s financial statements; coordinate and assist in other diligence workstreams;
• Support share purchase agreement negotiations and liaise with both financial and legal advisors on key financial inputs
• Manage approval process for executive approval‑level deals, including preparation and submission of transaction summaries
• Conduct Recorded Music and Music Publishing artist deal analysis
• Provide support for ad‑hoc tasks as requested by CEO/CFO, board presentations, valuations, etc.

About You

• Strong understanding of finance and DCF concepts/principles in conjunction with excellent verbal, analytical, written and interpersonal skills.
• Strong understanding of share/asset purchase agreement negotiation principles
• Sophisticated financial modeling skills; ability to create new models as well as ‘refresh’ existing financial models
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast‑paced environment
• Ability to identify and solve problems
• Ability to deliver value added analyses and effectively communicate results to senior management
• Ability to work independently as well as to work as part of a team; handle multiple tasks simultaneously, while working with a sense of urgency to meet assigned deadlines
• BA in Finance/Accounting/Economics
• Extensive finance‑related experience (preferably from M&A, management consultancy or FP&A background)

We’d Love It If You Also Had

• MBA/CFA desirable, but not required

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.

Location: London, England, United Kingdom