Senior Director, Finance Santa Anna

About Sony Music EntertainmentAt 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.Alamo Records, Santa Anna Label Group, Foundation Media, and OVO Sound operate across a fast-moving, rapidly growing portfolio of labels, joint ventures, distribution partners, and artist deals. We are looking for a strategic, commercially minded Senior Director of Finance & Accounting who understands the broader label business and can support decisions around artists, joint ventures, acquisitions, catalog, cash flow, and profitability with insightful analysis. The ideal candidate will bring deep accounting expertise, strong operational discipline, and exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills.In the near term, this person, in coordination with SME central teams, will provide hands-on leadership to strengthen accounting practices, including intercompany accounting, financial operations, and metadata management, to ensure accurate and comprehensive reporting. The Senior Director of Finance & Accounting will also be responsible for the monthly close and forecast, as well as the annual budgeting process. As part of a small, flat team supported by the wider Sony Music Finance, Accounting, and IT infrastructure, this person will touch virtually every aspect of label finance and accounting. The role requires someone who navigate a complex organizational structure and bring the technical accounting expertise the group needs. This will require taking ownership of detailed project management and process design and execution. Through this work, the Senior Director of Finance will build the experience and perspective needed to grow into a future CFO-level leader for the organization.What you'll do: * Lead accounting setup, cleanup, and ongoing financial control processes across Alamo, Santa Anna, Foundation, OVO, and related ventures, with particular focus on entity structure, intercompany accounting, eliminations, reconciliations, and balance sheet integrity. * Strengthen accounting controls, workflows, and ownership across recurring close, reporting, intercompany, and operational finance processes. * Oversee monthly close, management reporting, variance analysis, balance sheet reviews, and corporate deliverables, ensuring results are accurate, timely, and clearly explained to senior management and SME stakeholders. * Manage annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning across labels, joint ventures, acquisitions, and new business initiatives, connecting financial plans to operating priorities, deal terms, and profitability targets. * Partner with SME central teams, including Accounting, Global Finance, Tax, Royalties, JV Accounting, Metadata, and technology partners, to improve financial operations, data quality, metadata workflows, systems integration, and reporting consistency across a complex organizational structure. * Support deal analysis, artist and label investment decisions, catalog and acquisition opportunities, royalty and recoupment analysis, and new venture business plans, ensuring financial assumptions align with contrac