About the Role
The Financial Analyst supports financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and operational analysis for C3 Presents' festivals, events, and business operations. This role partners with various departments to provide accurate financial reporting, insightful analysis, and decision support, playing an important role in ensuring financial accuracy and identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the preparation of monthly forecasts, annual operating budgets, long-range planning, and Capital Expenditure Requests (CERs).
- Prepare financial reports and analyze variances between actual results, forecasts, budgets, and prior periods.
- Maintain financial models, forecasting schedules, dashboards, and management reporting.
- Monitor forecast accuracy and recommend improvements to planning assumptions.
- Analyze revenue and expense activity to identify trends and investigate reporting discrepancies.
- Maintain financial tracking schedules and supporting business reports.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting processes, forecasting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
- Support implementation of reporting enhancements and process improvements.
- Assist with audit requests, reporting requirements, and financial documentation.
- Prepare recurring and ad hoc financial analyses for management.
- Develop reporting packages and dashboards that support departmental decision-making.
- Support additional finance projects and responsibilities as assigned.
- Perform additional duties and projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
- 3–5 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), financial analysis, business analytics, or corporate finance.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling and data analysis.
- Experience with Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, Adaptive Planning, or similar ERP and forecasting systems preferred.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multiple departments.
Skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Financial analysis
- Business analytics
- Corporate finance
- Microsoft Excel
- Financial modeling
- Data analysis
- Oracle
- SAP
- Hyperion
- Adaptive Planning
- ERP systems
- Forecasting systems
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits
- Health care concierge
- Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
- Free concert tickets
- Generous paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Sick time
- Personal days
- 401(k) program with company match
- Stock reimbursement program
- New parent programs
- Caregiver leave
- Fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
- Career and skill development programs
- School of Live
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan repayment
- Volunteer time off
- Crowdfunding match
About 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 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide.
- Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries.
- Live Nation Media & Sponsorship creates strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.
- C3 Presents creates music festival experiences for millions of fans across the globe, setting the new standard each year for events that are as memorable as they are spectacular, including Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas, Lollapalooza in Chicago (and seven other countries), and Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee.
Equal Opportunity
- Live Nation Entertainment aspires to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve, promoting environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive.
- Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
- The company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.
- Live Nation also affords equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability and will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability.
- Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek.
- Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.
