Senior Finance Manager

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Senior Finance Manager at BMG London onsite, you lead finance processes and outsourced service governance, embed controls, and KPI reporting. You’ll work with Tax and Financial Reporting, support audits, and partner with stakeholders while driving remediation with outsourced providers. ACA/ACCA and at least five years post-qualification are required, with experience documenting processes and managing outsourced services; IFRS and multinational exposure a plus. In return you gain 25 days leave, private health, a gig allowance and an inclusive culture. To apply, tailor your CV to show process documentation, KPI design for outsourced services, governance improvements and audit readiness, plus enthusiasm for music and BMG. Disability guarantee: eligible candidates receive a guaranteed interview; contact [email protected] for details.

At BMG, we recognise the power of music and are dedicated to ensuring it thrives. We are a community of artists, songwriters, and partners, working together to create music and build lasting careers. Here, music creators find not just a business partner, but a trusted home where their work shapes culture and leaves a legacy. Together, we evolve and grow.

We believe that creativity flourishes when people feel they belong. That means building a culture where everyone can show up as themselves, contribute freely, and be treated with fairness and respect - whatever their background, identity, or life story. We’re committed to creating a workplace where individuality is valued, inclusion is intentional, and everyone has the chance to grow. All applicants to BMG will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Senior Finance Manager
London

Your Mission at BMG

As a Senior Finance Manager at BMG, your role is to provide leadership and oversight across finance processes and outsourced service delivery. You will be responsible for embedding robust, well-documented processes, developing KPI-driven performance reporting for outsourced services, and ensuring consistent, high-quality service delivery across global finance operations.

Working closely with Tax, Financial Reporting and wider Group Finance teams, you will play a key role in supporting audits, month-end close and continuous improvement initiatives, while acting as a senior point of contact for outsourced service performance and governance.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the documentation and maintenance of end-to-end finance processes and procedures across the Finance organisation.
• Ensure appropriate processes and controls are documented and embedded within other departments where required.
• Drive standardisation, control and continuous improvement across finance operations.
• Design, implement and maintain KPI frameworks and reporting for outsourced finance services.
• Monitor outsourced service providers against agreed KPIs and service level agreements.
• Actively manage performance, escalating issues where required and driving remediation and service improvement.
• Work with global finance teams to ensure consistency of outsourced service delivery across territories.
• Work alongside Tax and Financial Reporting teams on key internal and external audits.
• Support month-end close activities, ensuring deadlines are met and outputs from outsourced providers are accurate, complete and timely.
• Provide oversight and challenge across outsourced deliverables during audit and close cycles.
• Partner with global finance teams to align standards, processes and service expectations.
• Act as a senior finance business partner to internal stakeholders, providing insight into service performance, risks and opportunities.
• Support finance leadership with analysis, reporting and recommendations related to outsourced services and process effectiveness.
  

What You Bring

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA or equivalent).
• Minimum 5 years’ post-qualification experience, ideally with an audit background.
• Proven experience in documenting finance processes and implementing strong control frameworks.
• Experience overseeing outsourced finance or shared service environments.
• Strong understanding of month-end close, audit processes and financial governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving capability.

What Would Be A Plus

• Experience working in a multinational or global finance environment.
• Exposure to IFRS and Group reporting structures.
• Experience developing KPI and performance management frameworks.

Now, What’s in It for You? 

• 25 days annual leave plus 3 days between Christmas & New Year 
• Subsidised gym membership 
• Private Health Insurance 
• Competitive pension scheme 
• Annual gig allowance 
• Artist showcases and access to exclusive music events 
• Cycle to Work scheme 
• Season Ticket Loan 
• Employee Assistance Programme for wellbeing support 
• A fun, inclusive, and sociable office environment 

Ready to shape the future of music?

Founded in 2008, BMG reimagined the relationship between music companies, songwriters, and artists by offering fairer contracts, greater creative freedom, and unparalleled transparency in royalties and licensing. Now the fourth-largest music company in the world, BMG combines human creativity with cutting-edge technology to connect music with global audiences.

With 20 offices across 13 key markets, BMG represents more than three million songs and recordings, including some of the most iconic catalogs and works from leading artists and songwriters such as The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, George Harrison, Blondie, and more. BMG is wholly owned and privately held by the international media, services, and education company Bertelsmann, whose other content businesses include the entertainment company RTL Group and the trade book publisher Penguin Random House.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we are dedicated to ensuring that candidates with disabilities are given a fair opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Therefore, we guarantee an interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role. Please note – there may be exceptional circumstances where the volume of applicants means we cannot interview all eligible candidates. If you have any questions about the Guaranteed Interview Scheme or would like to confirm your eligibility, please reach out to us at [email protected].

 Company: BMG Rights Management Services (UK) Limited | Job ID: 286539