TITLE: Senior Accountant / Senior Analyst, Finance & Accounting
REPORTS TO: Corporate Controller and VP Finance/Controller Shared Services
DEPARTMENT: Firebird Music / Firebird Shared Services
LOCATION: New York, Los Angeles, or Nashville preferred
ABOUT FIREBIRD
Firebird is a diversified music company that empowers artists to accelerate and capture the full value of their content and brands.
The Firebird Label Services division provides Firebird Music’s artist, management, and label partners, as well as its wholly owned labels and repertoire, with access to all the resources needed to share their music with a global audience. FLS offers recorded music strategy, distribution, release management, marketing & promotion, and more to meet its partners’ creative and business needs.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Firebird Finance Team is looking to fill a newly created role in a fast-growing, fast paced environment. The role requires excellent attention to detail and ability to multitask. The ideal candidate is a talented, entrepreneurial individual who is ready to roll up their sleeves and jump in on any task at hand.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Report directly to the Corporate Controller & VP Finance/Controller of shared services
- Own full-cycle accounting processes – GL, AR, AP, account reconciliations
- Own month-end close – accruals, prepaids, expense reporting, credit cards, payroll
- Support onboarding and accounting for portfolio companies and subsidiaries
- Support creation and distribution of regular reporting packs for stakeholders
- Ensure complete and accurate synchronization of plug-in softwares to GL (Concur, etc)
- Audit and analyze financial statements and reports of subsidiaries and parent company
- Pursue compliance with all tax related items and deadlines, locally and internationally
- Help develop shared services department, resourcing various activities for subsidiaries
- Develop regular, insightful, and accurate management reports, for internal and external use
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3-5 years of accounting experience. New/young/growing company experience +
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting. Advanced degree or CPA +
- Cross-functional/operationally driven, with sound technical accounting knowledge
- Information systems research, implementation, optimization experience. Major ERP +
- Exceptional ability to work independently, as well as manage both upward and downward
- Knowledge of the music / entertainment industry. Deals, contracts, royalties +
- Strong excel and reporting skills. Big data and analytics experience +
- No fear of rolling up your sleeves and getting in the weeds. Entrepreneurial spirit +
- Desire to grow and be a part of something huge!
ABOUT FIREBIRD
Firebird is a diversified music company that empowers artists to accelerate and capture the full value of their content and brands.
Our platform has two operating units:
Firebird Management, where we serve as CEO of Artist Inc., drive artists’ careers as capital and business partners building brand extensions across consumer products, digital, media, live and more, and where we are evolving the model to participate in 100% of artist revenue streams and be an asset co-owner
Firebird Recorded Music and Publishing, where we power the creation of artists’ core enabling IP and participate as an equity owner
Firebird has centers of excellence in digital and marketing, data and analytics, consumer products, label services, and finance that support the artists we partner with in our operating units
Each operating unit is an entry point for a broader, aligned partnership with an artist across the entirety of their business.
