EMEA FP&A Lead: AI-Driven Forecasting & Transformation

Live Nation Entertainment; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tickets to shows and festivals

Unlimited annual leave

Job summary

Live Nation Entertainment is seeking an experienced FP&A Senior Manager to strengthen EMEA FP&A, owning governance, forecasting discipline and reporting standards in a fast-paced, international live entertainment environment.

The role partners with regional finance teams and the VP FP&A to enhance forecast quality, standardise reporting and drive automation and AI-enabled insights across OneStream readiness and acquisitions.

Qualifications

• ACA qualified, or equivalent, with strong post-qualified experience in FP&A, commercial finance or financial reporting.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting within a complex, multi-market organisation.
• Proven ability to review and challenge forecasts, assumptions, risks, opportunities and market commentary.
• Strong understanding of month-end reporting, forecast consolidation, budget processes and senior stakeholder reporting.
• Excellent Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to work confidently with large and complex datasets.
• Experience with finance systems and reporting tools such as Oracle, BPC/EPM, OneStream and Microsoft Office.
• Experience with dashboards and reporting platforms such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Strong interest in AI, automation and the use of technology to improve reporting quality, speed and insight.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage regional finance teams and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own FP&A review and business partnering for EMEA with a focus on certain markets.
• Review and challenge of forecast submissions, ensuring assumptions are complete, credible and well supported.
• Monitor regional risks, opportunities, forecast accuracy and submission quality.
• Partner with local finance teams to improve forecast discipline, reporting consistency and commentary quality.
• Support acquisition onboarding and integration activity within the division, ensuring new businesses adopt standard FP&A templates, timelines and reporting expectations.
• Support the monthly forecast timetable and submission process across EMEA.
• Coordinate forecast consolidation across all regions and business lines.
• Ensure consistent forecasting standards, templates and definitions are applied across markets.
• Review regional submissions for quality, completeness, consistency and credibility.
• Coordinate the annual budget process across regions and business lines.
• Act as the key operational escalation point for forecast process issues before VP review.
• Support the reporting timetable, reporting standards and quality assurance process for EMEA FP&A outputs.
• Perform consistency review across Concerts, Sponsorship and Venues reporting.
• Ensure regional commentary is comparable, concise and relevant.
• Review AI-enabled commentary and ensure outputs are accurate, controlled and appropriately challenged before publication.
• Support the move from manual pack production to an automated, AI-assisted reporting process.
• Support AI governance for FP&A, including approved use cases, review standards and commentary controls.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled variance commentary, forecast narratives, executive summaries and pack drafting.
• Ensure AI outputs are subject to appropriate human review, financial challenge and quality control.
• Work with the FP&A team to develop prompt templates, repeatable workflows and controlled AI-enabled reporting processes.
• Be curious & identify opportunities to use automation, dashboards and structured data to improve reporting efficiency and insight generation.
• Support the VP FP&A on key operational FP&A matters and process improvement initiatives.
• Partner with regional finance leads, market finance teams and central stakeholders to improve forecast and reporting quality.
• Support senior stakeholder reviews by preparing clear, consistent and action-focused financial insight.
• Provide coaching and guidance to wider team on forecasting, reporting, commentary and process standards.
• Build strong relationships across finance, data, operations and transformation teams.

Skills

ACA qualified

Budgeting & forecasting

Variance analysis

Management reporting

Excel proficiency

Stakeholder management

AI awareness

Communication skills

Education

ACA qualification or equivalent FP&A experience

Tools

Oracle

BPC/EPM

OneStream

Tableau

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Job description

Live Nation Entertainment is seeking an experienced FP&A Senior Manager to strengthen EMEA FP&A, owning governance, forecasting discipline and reporting standards in a fast-paced, international live entertainment environment.

The role partners with regional finance teams and the VP FP&A to enhance forecast quality, standardise reporting and drive automation and AI-enabled insights across OneStream readiness and acquisitions.