Remote Tour Accountant

ROSTR, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Leftbrain is seeking a Remote Tour Accountant to support the Business Management division with tour and concert accounting. This role focuses on building budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring accurate financial reporting across a diverse roster of artists.

Reporting to client teams and working with agents, tour managers, and promoters, you’ll reconcile settlements, coordinate payroll and withholding, and deliver timely financial updates and reconciliations for tours from club shows to

Qualifications

• 3+ years of accounting or corporate finance experience, with at least 2 years in live music accounting.
• Experience in business management or promoter's accounting/finance teams is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tour budgets and track expenses and cash flow.
• Review show settlements with tour managers and onsite accountants, ensuring fees and merchandise revenue match deals and are paid on time.
• Send financial updates during tours and prepare final reconciliations when tours wrap.
• Coordinate tour payroll and tax withholding across jurisdictions, including international markets, with tax accountants.
• Collaborate with business managers and tour managers to obtain receipts and timely reports.

Skills

Live music accounting

Budgeting

Financial reporting

Multi-client management

Excel

Excel macros

Tools

Excel macros

Airtable

Job description

The Role

Leftbrain is seeking a Remote Tour Accountant to support our Business Management division with tour and concert accounting. This role is ideal for someone with an accounting and finance background in live music who enjoys working behind the scenes to keep budgets and reporting accurate.

You do not need extensive on-the-road touring experience for this role. Instead, we're looking for someone who understands the financial lifecycle of live events, from building a show budget to reconciling the final tour settlement, and who can handle the tracking and follow-up in between.

Working remotely, you'll report to the business managers on each client team and work alongside their support staff. You'll also work directly with booking agents, tour managers, and promoters across a diverse roster of artists. From club tours and one-off events to major touring campaigns and festivals, you'll play an important role in delivering accurate financial information and exceptional client service.

Key Responsibilities

• Tour Budgets: Build and maintain tour budgets, and track actual expenses and cash flow against them as the tour runs.
• Settlements: Review show settlements with tour managers and onsite tour accountants, confirming that show fees and merchandise revenue match the deal and are paid on time.
• Reporting: Send financial updates while tours are out, and prepare final tour reconciliations when they wrap.
• Payroll & Tax Support: Coordinate tour payroll and track withholding across jurisdictions, including international markets, working with our tax accountants on filings.
• Collaboration: Keep business managers informed and work with tour managers to get receipts and reports in on time.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 3+ years of accounting or corporate finance experience, including at least 2 years in live music accounting. Experience in business management or on a promoter's accounting/finance team is a strong plus.
• Touring Knowledge: A working understanding of deal structures, including guarantees and versus deals.
• Software: Strong Excel skills. Experience with Excel macros or Airtable is a plus.
• Settlements: Show settlement experience is not required but is a big plus.
• Mindset: You keep careful records and can manage priorities across multiple clients and tours while keeping everyone informed.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $90,000 to $110,000 base salary
• Bonus: 10% annual target bonus
• Health Coverage: Health insurance, including dental and vision, competitive with top-tier public accounting firms
• Retirement: 401(k) with employer match
• Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 10 sick days per year
• Remote Work: Fully remote, with an $80 monthly work-from-home stipend

Why Leftbrain?

Leftbrain is a tech-forward business management firm dedicated to transforming how musicians and their teams handle finances. We automate and streamline low-value tasks to focus on what matters most: our clients. For tour accounting, that means expenses are coded against the tour budget automatically, so you spend your time analyzing the numbers instead of keying them in. Our bottom-up meritocracy rewards results, so staff who deliver can grow their careers as fast as their performance supports.

We give people real ownership of their work and hold them to clear standards. That isn't for everyone, but the results speak for themselves. Join us and be part of a team that's changing business management for the music industry.