Financial Reporting Accountant, Festivals

Company: Live Nation

Department: Finance

Location: Farringdon, London

Reports to: Reporting Manager - Festivals

Working Hours: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Description

Live Nation is seeking a Financial Reporting Accountant - Festivals to support reporting, month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations and SOX control evidence for the Festivals business.

Reporting into Patricia, this role will help create a more robust reporting and controls function, enabling the commercial finance team to focus on insight while ensuring reported results are complete, accurate and properly supported.

What it’s like to work in the Team

The Festivals finance team supports a complex, fast-moving portfolio of events, statutory companies and operational stakeholders. The team works across commercial finance, reporting, controls and finance operations, with a clear focus on helping the business understand performance, manage risk and make better decisions.

This is a hands-on environment where finance needs to be close to production, ticketing, operations and leadership. The team is expected to be collaborative, calm under pressure and practical in how it supports events from initial budget through to final reconciliation and settlement.

What we can offer you

Live Nation offers impressive employee benefits including tickets to shows and festivals and unlimited annual leave. The Farmiloe Building in Farringdon, London is a beautiful office to work in. Staff can enjoy use of arcade games in the basement games room, onsite gym equipment plus fitness and meditation classes. In addition to this, the office has a fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista to serve you your favourite coffee as you walk into the office and offers heavily subsidised lunch options. We hold regular staff events in our atrium stage space including hosting speakers and open mic nights to showcase Live Nation employee talent.

Who you are

Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience

Qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience with relevant financial reporting or management accounting experience.

Strong understanding of month-end close, journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.

Experience preparing or reviewing reporting packs and supporting schedules.

Good control awareness, with SOX, audit or internal control experience desirable.

Strong Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems and large data sets.

Ability to identify reconciliation issues, aged balances and incomplete evidence.

Organised and deadline-driven with strong attention to detail.

Experience in multi-entity, event, entertainment or project-based environments desirable.

Behaviours

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success

Accurate, structured and control focused.

Proactive in resolving reporting issues and chasing outstanding actions.

Comfortable working to tight month-end and reporting deadlines.

Collaborative with commercial finance and finance operations teams.

Clear in communication and willing to escalate risks early.

What the role includes

Support the monthly close process, including journals, accruals, prepayments, actuals reporting and close checklists.

Prepare and maintain monthly reporting packs and supporting schedules for review by Reporting Manager.

Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and track reconciling items, aged balances and required actions.

Support SOX evidence collection, filing and control compliance across reporting and balance sheet processes.

Work with Commercial Finance team to ensure event accruals, prepayments and P&L movements are supported and understood.

Prepare cashless reconciliations following each event and monitor actions to ensure partner settlements are paid and revenue invoices are raised correctly and timely

Assist with statutory company reporting, intercompany reconciliations and legal entity reporting requirements.

Support audit, internal control and group finance requests with timely and accurate schedules.

Maintain clear documentation, working papers and audit trails for month-end and balance sheet processes.

Identify opportunities to improve reporting templates, reconciliation quality and close efficiency.

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

The Company

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday 29th September. We reserve the right to close applications at any time.