Analyst, Marketing Financial Planning

Job description

**About Sony Music Entertainment** At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time. Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship. Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies. We are seeking a detail-oriented, analytical, and music-passionate Analyst to join our centralized finance team supporting the Sony Music US Front Line Label Group, which includes Columbia Records, RCA Records, Epic Records, Arista Records, Sony Music Nashville, Provident Entertainment, and Ultra Records. Reporting to the Associate Director of Marketing Financial Planning, this position will support the planning, tracking, and analysis of marketing expenses across artist campaigns for assigned labels. The Analyst will work closely with finance, marketing, and media teams to help maintain accurate budgets, process purchase orders, reconcile expenses, and provide visibility into campaign spending. The ideal candidate is organized, curious, comfortable working with financial data, and able to manage multiple priorities in a collaborative environment. ## **What you'll do:** - **Budgeting and Forecasting:** Assist with maintaining artist marketing budgets that support release strategies and commercial plans. Update marketing budgets in the company’s planning system and help ensure information remains accurate as campaign plans change. Support the monthly forecast process by gathering campaign updates and entering revised spending assumptions. - **Purchase Order Administration:** Coordinate with label teams to create and submit marketing-related purchase orders in line with approved campaign budgets and internal requirements. Work with Accounts Payable and label partners to research discrepancies and support timely vendor payments. - **Expense Reconciliation and Analysis:** Complete monthly and quarterly reconciliations of marketing expenses. Support the preparation of accruals and journal entries. Review spending activity, identify potential variances, and share findings with the manager. Assist with reviewing marketing recoupment calculations and tracking third-party sponsorships, invoices, and payments. - **Financial Reporting and Spend Visibility:** Maintain marketing expense reports and dashboards that provide visibility into actual spending and remaining budgets by artist, project, and campaign. Assist with tracking contractual marketing commitments across artists, projects, spending categories, and release phases. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Work with marketing, media, promotion, and finance teams across assigned labels to gather information and resolve questions. Participate in marketing financial planning meetings and provide updates on budgets, spending, and purchase orders. - **Compliance and Process Support:** Help ensure marketing expenses are supported by the appropriate documentation and follow company finance policies, approval requirements, and established controls. Assist with audit requests and support updates to budgeting, reporting, and purchase order processes. - **Special Projects:** Assist with campaign analyses, vendor comparisons, label-wide marketing expense reviews, and other projects as assigned. ## **Who you are:** - You have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. - You have up to two years of experience in accounting, financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or a related area. Internship or entry-level experience in music, entertainment, or media is a plus. - You are proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and are comfortable learning new systems and applications. - Experience with SAP, Power BI, Tableau, or other financial reporting tools is a plus, but not required. - You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail and accuracy. - You communicate clearly and professionally and are comfortable working with colleagues across different teams and levels. - You are organized, able to manage multiple assignments, and comfortable adjusting to changing priorities and deadlines. - You are collaborative, curious, and willing to ask questions and learn. - You take ownership of your work, follow through on commitments, and raise issues when additional guidance is needed. ## **What we give you:** - You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to channel your passion every day - A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork empowering you to bring your best - An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K + employer matching - Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans - Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community. - The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next - Time off for a winter recess *Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.* The anticipated annual base salary does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. New York Pay Range $61,000—$66,000 USD