Current Openings
Position
Financial Analyst
Division
Strategic Analysis/Label
Reports To
Chief Strategy Officer
Responsible for
Measurement of project and company financial performance and ROI
Location
Remote - Canada
Salary
$65,000 - 75,000 CAD
Position Summary
The Financial Analyst plays a pivotal role in connecting the financial performance of our artists to the financial health of the organization. This position is critical in ensuring our teams are making informed decisions, driving value for our artists and the business. The Analyst is responsible for managing budgets for our artists and rolling those budgets into a fulsome organization budget. This role will also include building project P&Ls to measure performance and ROI. The ideal candidate has a high degree of curiosity, an eye for the unexpected, and a self-starter mentality to explore questions and find answers.The successful candidate should have a proven track record of accurate revenue and cost forecasting, ideally with multiple product lines or projects. This role requires an extraordinary eye for detail, excellent analytical capabilities, and comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty.
About Nettwerk
Nettwerk Music Group is a full-service artist development and music intellectual property brand builder with a history spanning nearly 40 years. Nettwerk operates a global organization with offices in major cities around the world and an infrastructure to match. At Nettwerk, we pride ourselves on our ability to anticipate shifts in consumer behavior and to effectively leverage technology in order to place great music in the hands of fans. We are looking for inspired, skilled and energetic people to help us deliver on that promise. We value connection, collaboration, curiosity, and transparency; the successful candidate will embody these traits.
Key Responsibilities:
Project P&Ls
- Build P&Ls that track performance on a monthly basis for all active artist projects
- Build dashboards or other reports to share performance with key team members
- Determine benchmarks for ratios and KPIs
- Aggregate performance data across multiple projects
- Analyze historical performance to identify opportunities for cost improvements
Budgeting/Forecasting/Modelling
- Build, maintain, and evolve project budgeting templates
- Work with artist teams to ensure budgets are accurate and complete
- Lead revenue forecasting at the project level
- Build and maintain the company’s financial model, aggregating from individual project budgets
- Evaluate overhead and non-project costs
- Prepare dashboards and regular management reporting to share results
Other
- Assist the Finance team with reconciliations, coding queries, etc.
- Assist with data integration between finance platform and other company data sources
- Assist in improving processes and establishing new integration systems for increased efficiencies across data sources
- Other ad hoc projects as required
Role Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or diploma in business/analytics/finance or related field
- 2+ years music industry finance, accounting, or analytics experience considered a huge asset
- 3+ years experience in an analytical role with demonstrated excellence in financial modeling and analytics
- Very comfortable working with large datasets in Excel and extracting, manipulating, and transforming relevant data from databases. SQL competence and/or experience with data extraction tools is a significant asset.
- Tableau or other visualization tool experience an asset
- Experience using Netsuite, or a similar ERP an asset - especially with any budgeting integration tools
- Strong analytical ability, able to clearly link financial results to strategic and operational activities
- Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines
- Enjoys ambiguity, uncertainty and problem solving
- Exceptional organization and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, comfort interacting with senior executives
- Positive, enthusiastic and collaborative attitude
To apply, please send your resume to jobs@nettwerk.com. We thank all applicants, however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Nettwerk is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Position
Administrator, Accounting
Division
Label/Finance
Reports To
Controller for 3 months, then Senior Accountant
Responsible for
Finance & Accounting team support
Location
Hybrid - Vancouver
Salary
$43,000 - 50,000 CAD
Position Summary
The Administrator, Accounting will be responsible for providing accounting support to our Finance department and other company staff. Key duties will include accounts receivable, accounts payable, data entry, bookkeeping support functions, filing documents and maintaining accounting records, reconciling records, researching and resolving accounting or documentation discrepancies, and other similar responsibilities as needed. This role will require attention to detail to ensure accounting records are complete and maintained as needed.
About Nettwerk
Nettwerk Music Group is a full-service artist development and music intellectual property brand builder with a history spanning nearly 40 years. Nettwerk operates a global organization with offices in major cities around the world and an infrastructure to match. At Nettwerk, we pride ourselves on our ability to anticipate shifts in consumer behavior and to effectively leverage technology in order to place great music in the hands of fans. We are looking for inspired, skilled and energetic people to help us deliver on that promise. We value connection, collaboration, curiosity, and transparency; the successful candidate will embody these traits.
Key Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable – Support Accounts Payable Specialists With:
- Processing weekly USD and CAD employee expense reports via Concur software
- Preparing cheque runs, EFT/ACH payments and wire payments
- Reconciling monthly USD and CAD corporate credit cards, coding and posting to the General Ledger
- Receiving, coding and posting of invoices into the accounting system for our Canadian and US companies
- Processing quarterly royalties payable for artists around the world in multi-currencies
- Ensure general ledger coding is accurate
Accounts Receivable – Support Accounts Payable Specialists With:
- Scanning receipts for billbacks and preparing charge-back invoices
- Preparing and posting cash deposits and wire receipts
- Update and maintain artist and vendor contact information in accounting system
- Assisting AR team where needed
General Day-to-Day Support Functions:
- Update, verify and maintain financial records and contact information for artists, vendors & others
- Initiate bank transfers and intercompany payments
- Perform filing and general administrative tasks
- Liaise with other departments/customers/vendors
- Track and report on petty cash
- Data entry into accounting system and tax software
- Bank Reconciliations
- Frequent ad-hoc projects
- Assisting with and providing information regarding annual external audit
These functions will be shared with other clerks and be assigned by the Controller, Senior Accountant or VP of Finance as they deem suitable. This is a dynamic position and requires someone willing and able to deal with ad-hoc queries of a varying nature. The scope of this role will expand for those who are showing proficiency and a desire to grow.
Role Requirements:
- 1-3 years of experience in a general accounting clerk, assistant or administrative role; ideally processing receivables or payables in a multi-currency environment
- Very strong communication (written & verbal)
- Positive/enthusiastic attitude
- Work well in a team environment as well as the ability to work unsupervised
- Detail-oriented in a fast-paced environment with a large volume of multi-currency transactions
- Excellent organizational skills – demonstrated ability to prioritize high volume workloads, multitask
- Self-starter, capable of researching when information is complete in order to establish the correct way to record transactions and prioritize multiple projects at once
- Takes ownership over work processes and initiative for research and to increase efficiencies
- Out-of-the box thinker, is able to look at information critically
- Proficient in the use of MS Office, specifically Microsoft Excel functions, ideally with some experience with V-Lookups, H-Lookups
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting and bookkeeping principles and procedures
- Experience using Netsuite or Concur an asset
- Excel skills an asset
- Experience in the music industry, royalties or licensing an asset
To apply, please send your resume to jobs@nettwerk.com. We thank all applicants, however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Nettwerk is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.