Indirect Tax Manager

At Warner Music Group were 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 were 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 were committed to keeping the faith acting with integrity and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists musicians and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are 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.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

A little bit about our team:

Warner Musics EMEA Shared Service Centre is the home to the financial tax and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our European Recorded Music and Publishing businesses. The UK Centre embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the companys deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities.

The Indirect Tax Team sits within our EMEA Shared Services Centre and provides tax compliance across the region for all business lines. As WMG transitions to SAP S/4HANA the team plays a crucial role in embedding tax processes into new systems and ensuring data integrity and compliance across multiple territories.

Your role:

This role is a key position responsible for helping the Senior Indirect Tax Manager to transform the indirect tax compliance function into a Centre of Excellence. You will help to design and implement best-in-class compliance processes for all indirect taxes and withholding tax integrating closely with other functions in the Shared Services Centre our labels and affiliates and the central Tax Team. Youll also drive automation foster cross-functional collaboration and ensure tax processes deliver meaningful insight and value to the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership & Team Development

  • Act as the project leader for key initiatives effectively collaborating with your own and cross-functional teams to identify and drive process improvements and embed solutions.

  • Support the professional development of the Tax Analysts by working with the Senior Tax Manager to build capability accountability and engagement within the team.

• Process Improvement & Innovation

  • Identify and deliver continuous improvement initiatives across indirect tax operations.

  • Design and test enhancements to tax engines processes and controls in partnership with IT and finance operations.

  • Leverage your enthusiasm and experience (or aptitude) for AI to identify and implement new process improvements and find efficiencies in the indirect tax function.

• Tax Governance & Escalation

  • Maintain strong internal controls and documentation standards for all tax processes.

  • Recognise when issues require escalation to Group Tax for specialist advice or resolution of technical controversies.

• Insightful Reporting & Analysis

  • Lead the development of indirect and withholding tax reports that go beyond system-generated outputs offering clear insights identifying risks or anomalies and supporting strategic business decision-making.

• Cross-functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Partner with Record to Report Order to Cash and Accounts Payable teams to ensure tax processes are integrated and optimised for accurate timely reporting.

  • Collaborate with local finance teams record labels and affiliates to understand business changes affecting tax compliance.

  • Coordinate with the Tax Team on complex advisory and controversy matters.

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to non-tax stakeholders clearly communicating complex tax issues and promoting tax awareness across the organisation.

• Indirect Tax Compliance & Process Ownership

  • Develop and implement efficient scalable and where possible automated compliance processes for VAT GST WHT and other relevant taxes across EMEA in line with SAP S/4HANA deployment.

  • Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of all VAT returns prepared by the EMEA Indirect Tax compliance team including review and / or delegation to other team members in line with agreed seniority and materiality thresholds.

About you:

• You have a bachelors degree in accounting finance tax or a related field.

• You bring experience in indirect tax ideally in a tax compliance function within a multinational organisation or professional services firm. While 5 years experience is preferred we are open to ambitious and highly enthusiastic individuals ready to take a step up.

• You have a strong understanding of indirect and withholding tax regulations in key EMEA territories (e.g. UK France Italy Ireland Nordics South Africa CEE).

• You have experience with SAP S/4HANA and tax engines such as ONESOURCE.

• Youre articulate with the ability to clearly explain complex tax issues to non-experts.

• Youre proactive solutions-focused and comfortable operating in a dynamic fast-paced environment.

• Youre experienced in process design improvement and testing and able to think both strategically and operationally.

• You have a growth mindset and are passionate about continuous improvement for yourself the team and the business.

• You have strong reconciliation and reporting skills and a detail-oriented mindset.

• Experience working in a shared service environment or cross-functional project teams.

Wed love it if you also had:

• Fluency in English and proficiency in an additional European language (e.g. French German Italian Spanish).

• Experience in creating and managing compliance calendars and documentation of processes for indirect taxes.

• Familiarity with XML log analysis and creating test scripts.

• Knowledge of GAAP-to-tax adjustments and journal entries.

As the home to 10K Projects Asylum Atlantic Music Group East West FFRR Fueled by Ramen Nonesuch Parlophone Rhino Roadrunner Sire Warner Records Warner Classics and several other of the worlds premier recording labels Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company Warner Chappell Music represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA which supports the independent community as well as artist services division addition WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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