Finance Core Model Manager (H/F)

Company Description

Believe is a global artist development company. We empower local artists, labels and publishers to grow their audiences at each stage of their careers with expertise, respect, fairness and transparency.

Operating in 50+ countries, with more than 2,000 employees, Believe offers a full range of services including audience development, publishing, marketing and distribution, with a tailor-made approach to fit any artist, label or publisher.

Believe champions independence and innovation through a unique model that combines local expertise with a global tech platform, delivering exclusive solutions for artists to promote and monetize their music thanks to strategic partnerships with leading global digital service providers.

With a leading portfolio of brands that includes Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Sentric, AllPoints and Byond, Believe artists generated more than 800 billion streams worldwide in 2024 across all genres, and were recognized with more than 70 leading industry awards.

Believe is a simplified joint-stock company under French law.

Ready to set the tone with Believe ?

Job Description

In a context where the Group's Finance Core Model is currently under construction and evolving, the Expert Consultant acts as an expert service provider on behalf of the Finance Executive Committee (Codir), which is its final guarantor and accountable owner. Working in close synergy with the Project Manager—who drives project governance and timelines—the Expert Consultant is dedicated to managing technical compliance, process expertise, and Core Model alignment.

The mission involves :

1/ Securing the subsidiary's integration trajectory by performing rigorous fit-gap analyses, designing compliance solutions and target workaround scenarios, and technically validating the quality of financial flows and functional testing (UAT) prior to the switchover, backed by a technical quality veto right on the Go-Live milestone

2/ Ensuring—continuously and upstream— with the Finance Codir and its dedicated functional experts that deployment and alignment proposals are fully in phase with the Group's target orientations and evolving Core Model arbitrages.

Key Responsibilities :

Presentation and Alignment with the Finance Codir

• Act as the operational relay for the Finance Codir on the ground during integration - working in close synergy with the Project Manager - and adapting the level of escalation to the complexity of the subjects.

• Continuously ensure proper alignment of the proposed integration trajectories and projects with the latest evolutions and arbitrations of the Group Core Model, aligning target timelines with the Project Manager.

• Submit and obtain validation from the Finance Codir regarding the relevance and accuracy of the "gap analysis" performed within the subsidiary.

• Management of simple / standard issues: Maintain complete autonomy over the analysis of gaps that do not challenge the guiding principles of the Core Model (e.g., alignment of standard processes, minor local configuration adaptations).

• Management of complex / structural issues: In the event of complex gaps (e.g., heavy local regulatory/tax constraints, major impacts on Finance IS flows, derogatory accounting schemes), structure the analysis and prepare the documentation required for validation by the Finance Codir's dedicated experts before any local validation.

• Technically investigate potential requests for local specificities and prepare arbitration files for the Finance Codir, in connection with functional experts (Accounting, Controlling, Finance IS, etc.) and in coordination with the Project Manager on project impacts.

Gap Analysis and Business Diagnosis on the Ground (Fit-Gap Analysis)

• Lead diagnostic workshops with the subsidiary to be integrated, in close coordination with the project manager for scheduling and governance, in order to map the existing situation (processes, tools, local regulations).

• Identify and formalize gaps in relation to the ambitions of the Core Model currently under construction.

• Draft and document the required compliance workstreams.

Design of Workarounds

• Co-build target solutions and any temporary or permanent workarounds with the subsidiary and the Finance IS team.

• Have these workaround scenarios validated by the Finance Codir prior to any implementation to guarantee compliance, coordinating with the Project Manager regarding timeline and budget impacts.

Testing, Quality Validation, and Model Improvement

• Define the functional testing strategy (UAT) for the subsidiary's financial flows.

• Validate the technical and regulatory compliance of data before the Go-Live, holding a technical quality veto right over the switchover milestone (co-validating the Go / No-Go with the Project Manager, who holds the timeline veto).

• Escalate relevant local specificities or innovations observed on the ground to the Finance Codir in order to feed into the continuous improvement and construction of the Group Core Model.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 full seasons in External Audit (Big 4), or fewer if supplemented by Internal Audit experience gained within a major international group.

• In-depth mastery of financial processes (Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, Payroll, Fixed Assets).

• Excellent understanding of Finance IS architectures, consolidation mechanisms, internal control matters, and tax issues (transfer pricing, VAT, withholding tax).

• Consultant / Service Provider Posture: Strong sense of internal customer service (Finance Codir).

• Excellent Interpersonal and Political Skills: Ability to interact with and bring credibility to analyses before high-level stakeholders (Codir members, Group experts)

• Methodological rigor, analytical and synthesis skills, and educational skills (pedagogy) to drive acceptance of a shifting model.

Additional Information

SET THE TONE WITH US

Working at Believe means having individual and collective impact in a fast-growing company!

At all stages of their careers, Believers are an important part of what we are doing: shaping the future of the music industry.

We need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our clients: our international presence is an inspiring and enriching work environment for each one of us, with daily opportunities to connect with our colleagues all over the world.

We have two hearts at Believe - our People and our Artists.

We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive.

ROCK THE JOB

• Tailor-made training and coaching program

• Remote working policy

• A well-being program

• Access to Eutelmed, a digital mental health and well-being platform that allows you to speak with an experienced psychologist

• Contractor role

SING IN HARMONY

• Ambassador program: an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all Believers interested in having a positive impact on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), wellbeing and the planet.

• Shaping Together: A Group-wide event focused on volunteerism and community impact

We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We, therefore, welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.