Senior Accountant

Job Summary:

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. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

We are seeking a Senior Accountant for the Corporate Accounting team to assist in providing accounting/finance support to Live Nation’s global technology team and the Corporate Division.

Major responsibilities include, but are not limited to, internal financial reporting, operational and capital cost tracking, cost allocations, purchase orders administration, month-end close, financial analysis, and serving as a trusted finance partner to operational leaders.

• →Lead monthly operational finance reviews with business leaders, serving as the primary finance partner by presenting financial performance, staffing, project updates, forecasts, and actionable analyses to support decision-making.
• →Assist with budget preparation annually including cost allocations.
• →Track and provide finance support for various capital projects, service contracts, software licenses, and consultant agreements.
• →Manage CIP accounting including project setup, tracking, accruals, reclass, partial completion reviews and related accounting activities.
• →Lead the Purchase Order process, working cross-functionally with Procurement and operational leadership.
• →Prepare and review month month-end journal entries and support schedules with a focus on capital assets and intangibles, including capitalized labor, project allocations, accruals, and intercompany recharges.
• →Lead divisional fixed asset accounting, including processing fixed asset submissions, depreciation, and accruals.
• →Review monthly fixed asset submodule and depreciation reconciliations.
• →Manage computer inventory, including monthly deployment allocations and quarterly reconciliations.
• →Provide dotted- line supervision to the Staff Accountant.
• →Other duties as assigned by management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• CPA or CPA eligibility a plus
• 5+ years’ accounting experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office – specifically Excel 
• Oracle experience a plus
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
• Strong business partnering and relationship management skills
• Multi-task oriented
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong organizational skills

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. 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. 

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. 

We 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.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.  Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms. Live Nation may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support application screening and assessment. All hiring decisions are made with human review.

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