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About the Role
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. 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.
Responsibilities
- 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 the 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Organized and deadline-driven with strong attention to detail.
- Experience in multi-entity, event, entertainment, or project-based environments desirable.
Skills
- Excel skills
- Financial systems
- Large data sets
- SOX
- Audit
- Internal control
Location
- Farringdon, London
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience
Benefits
- Tickets to shows and festivals
- Unlimited annual leave
- Arcade games in the basement games room
- Onsite gym equipment
- Fitness and meditation classes
- Fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista
- Heavily subsidised lunch options
- Regular staff events
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 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. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com
Equal Opportunity
- 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.