Live Nation Entertainment
Financial Reporting Accountant, Festivals
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Job Summary
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.
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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.
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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 home life. 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. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday 29th September. We reserve the right to close applications at any time.
Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.
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