Director, Finance & Accounting - The Orchard

The Orchard is a leading full-service music distribution company. As Director, Finance & Accounting, you will provide key accounting, reporting, and analytical support across various labels. This role combines financial analysis with technical accounting to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, helping management make strategic business decisions. You will collaborate with finance teams, support Sony Music Global Finance, and prepare P&L commentaries.

Must Have

• Collaborate with finance teams to review monthly financial reporting results
• Support Sony Music Global Finance with reporting and financial analysis requests
• Prepare P&L commentaries and present monthly results
• Understand daily accounting processes and policies of labels
• Review contracts to identify factors impacting accounting treatments
• Participate in month-end close process by recording labels' monthly financial results
• Prepare journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and disclosure schedules
• Participate in new integration efforts for acquired companies
• Work 4 days a week in the office in New York City
• Monthly travel to meet with labels' finance teams
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 5-7 years of experience in financial accounting, audit, and internal controls
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel, SAP, and Quickbooks
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to a changing environment

Good to Have

• CPA preferred
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish

Perks & Benefits

• Inclusive, collaborative and global community
• Modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork
• Opportunities to connect with Counsel of Equity & Progressive Action (CEPA)
• 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
• 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
• Reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans
• Investment in professional growth and development
• Space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next
• Time off for a winter recess

About The Orchard

The Orchard is a leading full-service music distribution company operating in 48 markets worldwide and servicing top global independent artists and labels. With cutting-edge operations and an unparalleled global team, The Orchard partners with clients to provide full scale solutions across a variety of verticals. Championed by an exceptional community of music lovers and experts, The Orchard empowers creators to grow and evolve in the dynamic, global industry.

The Orchard focuses on providing a comfortable, social, and engaging environment to encourage productivity and creativity.

As Director, Finance & Accounting, you will play a key role in providing key accounting, reporting, and analytical support across the company's various labels. This role combines financial analysis with technical accounting to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, helping management make strategic business decisions.

What You'll Do

• Financial Reporting & Analysis:
• Collaborate with finance teams of priority labels to review and understand monthly financial reporting results, including new deals, investments, acquisitions, and significant P&L fluctuations against forecasts, budgets, and historical data.
• Support Sony Music Global Finance with reporting and financial analysis requests related to label activities (touring, merchandise sales, publishing, etc.).
• Prepare P&L commentaries and present monthly results to the team and management.
• Accounting Process & Compliance:
• Collaborate with labels' finance teams to understand their daily accounting processes and policies. Identify areas for improvement and ensure alignment with IFRS and Orchard/Sony Music policies.
• Review contracts to identify factors impacting accounting treatments (e.g., principal vs. agent, revenue sources for artist royalty recoupment, contingent vs. non-contingent commitments).
• Participate in the month-end close process by recording labels' monthly financial results in the Orchard ERP system, including management adjustments to comply with IFRS and Orchard/Sony Music accounting policies.
• Prepare journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and balance sheet disclosure schedules.
• Integration:
• Participate in new integration efforts for newly acquired companies and/or investments requiring financial consolidation accounting treatments.
• Work Environment:
• This is an office-first role, requiring 4 days a week in the office.
• Monthly travel to meet with labels' finance teams is required.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 5-7 years of experience in financial accounting, audit, and internal controls. CPA preferred.
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel, including the ability to write complex formulas (intermediate to advanced level).
• Proficiency in SAP and Quickbooks required.
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish is preferred but not required, as the role involves reading Spanish contracts and collaborating with the label finance team.
• An excellent communicator and enthusiastic collaborator who works well with team members, external partners, and management
• You are open minded with a passion for learning. You are curious, ask questions and get excited about new projects.
• A thoughtful, organized and results-oriented professional
• You are thorough and thoughtful in your approach to problem solving
• Able to adapt quickly to a changing environment with minimal disruption

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
• Opportunities to connect with our valuable resources, such as our Counsel of Equity & Progressive Action (CEPA), a group created by our employees tasked with developing and implementing innovative solutions to advance a globally-shared goal of ensuring fair and inclusive spaces for all
• 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