Senior Accountant II

Live Nation Entertainment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HEALTH

YOURSELF

WEALTH

FAMILY

CAREER

OTHERS

Job summary

Live Nation Entertainment is seeking a Senior Accountant II to join the Joint Ventures Finance & Accounting group within Touring. The role blends transactional and intermediate-to-advanced accounting, requiring strong ethics, multitasking, and a passion for music.

The candidate will lead monthly finance reviews, assist with the GL close, reconciliations, and budgeting while partnering with business leaders and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant accounting experience.
• Fluency in Spanish is required.
• Strong GAAP knowledge and financial analysis experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to partner with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly operational finance reviews with business leaders and present performance, forecasts, variances, and insights.
• Support monthly GL close, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, intercompany charges, and schedules.
• Maintain, analyze, and reconcile complex GL accounts and resolve discrepancies.
• Manage AR balances and schedules; support cash reconciliations with AP.
• Support annual budgeting, including cost allocations and forecasting.
• Analyze GL activity and financial performance; prepare reports.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with GAAP, policies, and SOX.
• Provide guidance to junior staff and supervise balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support special projects and other duties as needed.

Skills

5+ years accounting experience

Fluent Spanish

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field

Tools

Oracle

Job description

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.

WHO ARE YOU?

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 JOB

The Joint Ventures Finance & Accounting group within our Touring division is in search of a highly motivated individual to join its team as a Senior Accountant II. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about music, possesses a professional work ethic, has strong accounting skills and is excited to learn and take on challenges. This is a role in a dynamic division on a fantastic team with prominent level of responsibility and is a blend of transactional and intermediate to advanced level Accounting. Self-motivated and multitasking ability are qualities that will be part of what helps an individual succeed in this role.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Lead monthly operational finance reviews with business leaders, serving as a primary finance partner by presenting financial performance, project updates, forecasts, variance analyses, and actionable insights to support business decision-making.
• Support the monthly general ledger close process and related deliverables, including preparing and reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, intercompany charges, project allocations, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain, analyze, and reconcile moderately to extraordinarily complex general ledger accounts, ensuring completeness and accuracy and researching and resolving discrepancies as needed.
• Manage external and internal Accounts Receivable balances and schedules, including detailed reconciliations and correcting entries, and support cash account reconciliations in partnership with Accounts Payable.
• Support the annual budgeting process, including cost allocations, forecasting, and related financial analysis.
• Analyze and report on general ledger activity and financial performance, including month over month and year over year variance analysis, and prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reports and schedules.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with GAAP, company policies and procedures, and applicable SOX requirements.
• Provide guidance and dotted line supervision to junior accounting staff, including support with balance sheet account reconciliations, bank and cash account reconciliations, close activities, and other assigned responsibilities.
• Support special projects and perform additional duties as needed.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant accounting or comparable professional experience.
• Fluency in Spanish is required.
• Strong accounting knowledge with demonstrated experience in general ledger accounting, reconciliations, month end close, and financial analysis.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong business partnering and relationship management skills, with the ability to communicate and work effectively with all levels of the organization and external partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with the ability to prioritize competing responsibilities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong overall computer skills.
• Oracle experience preferred.
• Ability to work extended hours as business needs and reporting schedules require, including occasional evenings and weekends.

BENEFITS & PERKS

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

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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.