Universal Music Group 2024 Summer Internship Program: Corporate Opportunities: Operations

Universal Music Group

Dec 16, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Business, Operations & Strategy
Banking & Finance
San Francisco, +2

Requirements

Current baccalaureate student registered in a cybersecurity based academic program
Network security or Internet security experience
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint
General experience with Jira and Confluence
Strong attention to detail  
Strong organizational skills and efficiency 
Ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines in fast-paced, high-pressure environments 
High level of integrity  
Discretion in handling confidential information  
Professionalism in dealing with senior professionals inside and outside the company 
A “can-do” attitude
Secure application development experience (preferred)
Penetration testing experience (preferred)
System hardening experience (preferred)
Kali Linux experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

Financial Operations - US Compliance:
The US Compliance & Controls team is part of the Financial Operations team and focuses on performing audit procedures to test UMG US financial controls.
Update Request for Information
Update Walkthrough Template
Update Organization Charts
Update Sample Based Testing Templates
Update control language changes in the narrative at the bottom grid
Assist with ad-hoc tasks as needed
Finance & Planning:
North America Corporate Finance (FP&A) team consolidates Actuals, Forecasts, and Annual Plan for all UMG-US record labels and central entities. We provide detailed analysis of the P&L and Balance Sheet on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis to executive leadership.
Looking for an intern to assist in the annual compliance program through testing controls in both North and South America. This is a new created team with lots of potential to grow.
Assisting the NA Corporate Finance Team on month-end close processes. Most of this will come in the form of updating Excel models.
Support the NA team on all ad-hoc requests regarding the Income statement, Excel-based trackers, and organization of financial statements and trackers.
Global Security Office - Digital Threat Management (Remote opportunity):
The Digital Threat Management team serves the global, enterprise Universal Music Group. Our vision is that UMG is poised to succeed, founded upon timely and relevant threat-informed security guidance, enabled security operations, secure software systems, a well-protected workforce, and security insight into technology infrastructure that hosts our customers’ most precious data.
Assess applications for security risks
Participate in security control selection and implementation
Generate effective security best practices across selected security domains
Collaborate to formulate clear and effective guidance regarding security issues
Global ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance):
The team is responsible for collecting and reporting ESG disclosures and developing programs to decarbonize operations and support a healthy, valued, diverse employee culture.
Work closely with Global ESG team to support ongoing initiatives to promote positive environmental and social change within the global organization.
Participate in Green Team activities and help embed sustainability within the office culture.
Forward efforts to support the evolution of UMG’s ESG priorities through a project based on the intern’s skillsets and interests. Examples of projects include:
Research and develop a set of strategy recommendations to reduce UMG’s carbon emissions and achieve its science-based target as part of the Music Climate Pact. Strategies should be prioritized based on materiality and feasibility, and can include topics such as renewable energy use, product innovation, and carbon offsets.
Peer and industry benchmarking of ESG goals, programs, and KPIs to help UMG evaluate its own positioning among its peer set related to ESG performance.
Create educational materials for labels, employees, and other stakeholders around ESG to socialize UMG’s ESG program and performance. For example, prepare a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the Environmental impact of UMG’s buildings or products for a presentation with the CFO community.
Research current and emerging ESG mandates, frameworks, and standards to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory standards and UMG’s leadership position within the industry.
Records Management:
Record Management at UMG oversees the storage and oversight of all paper records generated at UMG. We assist UMG offices in the US with storing and searching records.
Our Intern will be assisting in both physical and digital cataloging projects. Duties for physical projects include requesting boxes from storage and recording the contents into our database. Digital cataloging projects include copying existing inventories into our database.
People, Inclusion & Culture:
People Experience:
We shape the culture at UMG through programs and events designed to engage our people feel and foster a sense of belonging. We deliver a variety of comprehensive programs and communications to support employee engagement and well-being as they develop and grow in their career at UMG.
Total Rewards:
We design and implement competitive pay, flexible & progressive benefits, and comprehensive well-being programs globally to attract, motivate, engage and retain our employees and to support the needs of our global and diverse workforce.
People Development & Organizational Effectiveness (Learning & Development):
Our team focuses on developing talent across the company from intern all the way up through executive. This looks like programs such as the 6 Strings of Management, Executive Leadership Development, our Music Business Spotlight Series, Small Group Mentoring Sessions, and Open Enrollment courses on a variety of topics open to all employees. We also serve as an in-house consultancy on all things human capital for each of our record labels and business units. This may include projects such as: talent planning, team dynamics, organizational change, leadership development, etc.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We curate programming and experiences that educate, elevate, and inspire action on diversity and inclusion matters that impact our global family of employees, creatives, artists, songwriters, fans, partners and the music industry at large.
Strategy, Planning & Analytics:
Strategy, planning & analytics is an extension of the executive CPIO PIC. It is the chief operations portion of the PIC executive office. Works closely with the CPIO to align strategy and annual PIC deliverables that align and drive business impact; link budget and resource allotment to priorities. Partners with PIC functional leaders on implementation, timing and coordination of PIC activities.
Report structure, systems set-up for report generation, statistical / correlation modeling. Curious – looks beyond raw data for trends, themes to gain insights. Comfortable questioning/recommending alternative solutions. Solution/problem solving oriented. Comfortable working in a scrappy, creative operation.

Universal Music Group

We are Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company.

Entertainment & Media

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

1934

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.