Director, Finance - Studio Operations
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Job summary
Live Nation Studios seeks a Director of Finance to lead financial oversight for studio productions, partnering with Corporate Finance to ensure accurate reporting and controls. You will manage production budgets, forecasting, cash flow, and close processes while evaluating new productions and partnerships.
The role requires strong accounting discipline, production knowledge, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights for Studio leadership. CPA/MBA preferred.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required.
- 10–12 years of experience in finance, accounting, or production finance.
- Experience in film/television or live entertainment preferred.
- Strong understanding of production accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Experience working in a corporate accounting/finance environment.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary finance partner to Live Nation Studios leadership.
- Provide visibility into studio and project-level spending, forecasts, and financial performance.
- Oversee production accounting and financial reporting across the studio slate.
- Monitor budgets, cost reports, commitments, and cost-to-complete forecasts.
- Track budget vs. actuals and identify financial risks or variances.
- Manage and forecast project cash flow and vendor payments.
- Partner with production leadership on budgeting and financial planning across the lifecycle.
- Support tax incentive tracking and forecasting.
- Develop studio-level budgets and forecasts.
- Prepare financial reporting and analysis for studio leadership.
- Create dashboards to improve visibility across the slate.
- Maintain accurate forecasting assumptions and identify key drivers.
- Support longer-term financial planning as the slate grows.
- Develop financial models to evaluate new productions and opportunities.
- Analyze investments, partnerships, sponsorships, and revenue opportunities.
- Perform scenario analysis for project economics, financing options, and cash flow.
- Support greenlight decisions and revenue forecasting.
- Collaborate with Sales and other Studio teams on project economics.
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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!
The Director of Finance will serve as the dedicated financial lead for Live Nation Studios, giving Studio leadership clear, timely visibility into project- and slate-level financial performance. This role will be embedded within the Studio organization and will partner closely with Corporate Finance and Accounting to ensure accurate reporting, forecasting, and financial controls.
The role will oversee production finance and accounting across the Studio's growing slate, including cost reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, and project close. The ideal candidate will also bring broader financial planning and modeling capabilities to help evaluate new productions, financing structures, partnerships, and business opportunities.
This role requires strong accounting and financial discipline, an understanding of physical production, and the ability to translate financial information into actionable insights for Studio leadership.
- Serve as the primary finance partner to Live Nation Studios leadership.
- Provide timely visibility into Studio and project-level spending, forecasts, and financial performance.
- Oversee production accounting and financial reporting across the Studio slate.
- Monitor production budgets, cost reports, commitments, and cost-to-complete forecasts.
- Track budget vs. actual performance and identify potential financial risks or variances.
- Manage and forecast project cash flow.
- Oversee vendor payments, accruals, reconciliations, and project close in partnership with Corporate Accounting.
- Partner with production leadership on budgeting and financial planning throughout the production lifecycle
- Support tax incentive tracking and forecasting
- Develop Studio-level budgets and forecasts.
- Prepare regular financial reporting and analysis for Studio leadership.
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools to improve visibility across the Studio slate.
- Maintain accurate forecasting assumptions and identify key financial drivers
- Support longer-term financial planning as the Studio and its slate continue to grow.
- Develop financial models to evaluate new productions and business opportunities.
- Support financial analysis of potential investments, partnerships, sponsorships, and other revenue opportunities.
- Perform scenario analysis to evaluate project economics, financing options, and cash flow requirements.
- Support greenlight and profitability analyses for new projects.
- Partner with Sales and other Studio teams to evaluate project economics and potential revenue scenarios.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Live Nation Studios and Corporate Finance and Accounting.
- Partner with Corporate Accounting to ensure timely and accurate month-end reporting and project close.
- Ensure Studio financial processes align with corporate accounting policies and internal controls.
- Establish clear processes for sharing financial information between the Studio and Corporate teams
- Improve financial reporting processes so Studio leadership has timely access to accurate financial information.
- Develop scalable financial processes to support a growing slate of productions.
- Improve financial workflows, reporting, and forecasting processes.
- Identify opportunities to streamline or automate financial reporting
- Establish financial best practices across Studio projects.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- 10 - 12 years of experience in finance, accounting, production finance, or a related discipline.
- Experience supporting film, television, media, live entertainment, or other content businesses strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of production accounting, budgets, cost reporting, forecasting, and cash flow.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Experience working within a larger corporate accounting or finance organization.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to both financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Experience partnering with production and executive leadership
- CPA and/or MBA.
- Direct production accounting or production finance experience
- Experience with tax incentives and production financing
- Experience with financial planning and analysis
- Experience with ERP and financial reporting systems (Oracle preferred)
Within the first year, this role will:
- Establish clear and timely financial visibility across the Live Nation Studios slate.
- Enable Studio leadership to understand current spend, forecasts, and projected final costs without relying on ad hoc reporting from Corporate Accounting.
- Improve production cost reporting, forecasting, and cash flow management.
- Strengthen the partnership and flow of information between Live Nation Studios and Corporate Finance and Accounting.
- Develop consistent financial reporting and dashboards for Studio leadership.
- Build financial modeling capabilities to support greenlight decisions and new business opportunities
- Establish scalable financial processes that can support the continued growth of the Studio
Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:
- HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
- YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
- WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program
- FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
- CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment
- OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match
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 affoit 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, 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-based basis.
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.
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The expected compensation for this position is:
$128,000.00 USD - $160,000.00 USD
** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
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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