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About the Role

The Tour Accountant is responsible for the accurate financial management, reconciliation, and settlement of VIP touring activity across Live Nation’s UK touring portfolio. This role supports effective management, reporting, and close-out for domestic and international VIP touring activities by maintaining accurate financial records and resolving outstanding matters.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of financial settlements for domestic VIP touring activity, ensuring all income and expenditure is accurately accounted for.
Take ownership of financial information provided to international finance teams, ensuring all income and expenditure is accurately accounted for.
Review and process supplier invoices against purchase orders, ensuring accurate project allocation and general ledger posting.
Reconcile hospitality codes within project general ledgers, proactively investigating variances and resolving outstanding queries with the Tour Accounts team.
Liaise with International Finance to confirm the relevant FEU and withholding tax (WHT) position for artists and tours, coordinating and processing artist payments where required.
Apply a thorough understanding of PRS requirements, ensuring the correct treatment of applicable charges at the point of settlement, including Nexus and non-Nexus ticket sales.
Review and approve show expenses, tour floats and other on-site expenditure in accordance with established financial controls and approval procedures.
Monitor outstanding invoices, payments, reconciliations and settlement queries, ensuring timely resolution and accurate financial close-out.
Ensure the correct application of VAT and other relevant tax treatments, ensuring US/UK GAAP application and liaising with internal finance teams where necessary.
Maintain accurate financial records and supporting documentation, ensuring a clear audit trail across settlements, reconciliations, invoices and payments.
Support any evolving month-end reporting by ensuring touring income, costs, accruals and outstanding liabilities are accurately recorded within the appropriate accounting periods.
Work closely with ticketing and event management colleagues to validate financial information, investigate discrepancies and ensure complete reporting of event activity.
Monitor compliance with financial controls, purchase order requirements and internal approval processes, escalating material discrepancies or exceptions where appropriate.
Maintain settlement trackers, reconciliation schedules and reporting templates to provide visibility of outstanding items and financial close-out progress.
Identify opportunities to improve settlement procedures, streamline reconciliations and enhance the accuracy and efficiency of financial reporting.
Attend and support events where required to assist with financial controls, expenditure management and operational requirements.
Provide financial reporting, analysis and ad hoc support as required by the wider UK finance teams.

Requirements

Part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
Progressive experience within an accounting function, ideally within live music, touring, festivals, events or an entertainment environment.
Strong understanding of financial processes, including revenue recognition, cost allocation, reconciliations and transaction processing.
Strong understanding of accounts payable and receivable, invoice processing, purchase orders and payment controls.
Ability to maintain accurate financial records across multiple concurrent projects, tours and events.
Ability to investigate financial discrepancies, resolve queries and maintain a clear audit trail.
Experience monitoring event budgets, tracking expenditure and identifying financial variances for review.
Strong knowledge of VAT and withholding tax (WHT) applications, with an understanding of relevant UK and US GAAP requirements.
Understanding of financial controls, approval processes and supporting documentation requirements.
Ability to liaise with ticketing, event management, promoters and finance teams to obtain and validate financial information.
Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple reporting deadlines and competing priorities.
Experience contributing to month-end processes, management reporting and the preparation of financial information for central finance teams.
Willingness and enthusiasm for travel within the UK.
Experience using accounting systems and general ledger platforms within a multi-entity or project-based environment.
Practical experience with UK VAT and US withholding tax (WHT), including the treatment of payments to overseas artists or suppliers.
Experience reconciling ticketing settlements, hospitality revenues and event-level financial data.
Familiarity with month-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations and audit requirements.

Skills

Strong Excel skills
Confidence working with financial systems
Confidence working with ticketing platforms
Confidence working with reporting tools
Accurate
Analytical
Commercially aware
Proactive

Location

Farringdon, London
Onsite at shows

Work Type

Full time
Permanent

Experience Level

Progressive experience within an accounting function

Education Level

Part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or equivalent

Benefits

Tickets to shows and festivals
Unlimited annual leave
Use of 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 in atrium stage space

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.