Staff Accountant, Revenue & Ticketing

TKO; New York (NY); On-site; USD 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality and a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings. We seek a Staff Accountant, Revenue & Ticketing in New York to support revenue accounting, ticketing accounting, and related GL entries.

You will connect contracts and customer activity to the general ledger, ensuring accurate revenue, inventory, and balances. The ideal candidate has 2+ years in accounting, strong Excel skills, and knowledge of GAAP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or CPA-track candidate preferred.
• Two or more years of accounting experience including general ledger, reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close.
• Experience with revenue accounting, inventory, cost accounting, event accounting, or high-volume transactional environments preferred.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP including revenue recognition, balance-sheet substantiation, cutoff, and financial-control requirements.
• Advanced Excel skills with large data analysis, lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation techniques; NetSuite experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly revenue accounting schedules and journal entries for the assigned portfolio.
• Apply revenue-recognition policies, validate recognized and deferred amounts, and escalate unusual contracts.
• Prepare ticket-inventory and ticket-cost schedules, including prepaid rights and related balances.
• Reconcile revenue and ticketing data across contracts, platforms, and GL by event and currency.
• Validate ticket quantities from load through sale and ensure consistency of downstream accounting.
• Maintain event-level rollforwards and balance-sheet reconciliations; support monthly/event closeouts.
• Document control procedures over revenue and ticketing to support audits and SOX testing.
• Collaborate with Revenue Operations, Ticketing, Event Finance, and Accounts Payable to resolve data-quality issues.
• Identify workflow improvements and support new event launches and system implementations.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Pivot tables

Data reconciliation

Cross-functional communication

NetSuite experience

GAAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA or CPA-track candidate

Tools

NetSuite

Ticketing systems

Reconciliation systems

Job description

Who We Are

On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality, offering ticketing, curated guest experiences, live event production and travel management across sports, entertainment, fashion and culture. On Location provides unrivaled access for corporate clients and fans looking for official, immersive experiences at marquee events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup 2026, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and more. An official partner and/or service provider to over 150 iconic rights holders, such as the IOC (the Milano Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games), FIFA, NFL, NCAA, UFC, WWE, and PGA of America, the company also owns and operates a number of its own unique experiences. On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world's premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world's premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

Position Summary

The Staff Accountant, Revenue & Ticketing will support revenue accounting, ticketing accounting, or a combination of both based on the assigned event portfolio. The role will connect contracts, customer activity, operational ticketing data, and vendor support to the general ledger, helping ensure event revenue, ticket inventory, ticket costs, and related balance-sheet accounts are complete, accurate, and supported. The position will partner closely with Revenue Operations, Ticketing and Commercial Strategy, Event Finance, Accounts Payable, and Controllership. The ideal candidate is comfortable working with high-volume transactional data, investigating differences across systems, and translating operational activity into reliable accounting entries and reconciliations.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly revenue accounting schedules and journal entries, including event revenue, deferred revenue, accounts receivable, contract assets or liabilities, customer credits, reclassifications, foreign currency impacts, and intercompany activity, as applicable to the assigned portfolio.
• Apply established revenue-recognition policies to customer and event activity, validate that recognized and deferred amounts are supported, and elevate unusual contracts or transactions for technical accounting review.
• Prepare ticket-inventory and ticket-cost schedules, including prepaid ticket rights, inventory consumption, cost of sales, accrued ticket costs, returns, cancellations, credits, fees, and other ticket-related balances, as applicable.
• Reconcile revenue and ticketing data across contracts, booking and ticketing platforms, customer activity, vendor statements, procurement and accounts-payable records, event schedules, and the general ledger by event, legal entity, currency, and reporting period.
• Validate ticket quantities and values from initial load through sale, allocation, transfer, use, return, or expiration, and confirm that downstream revenue and cost accounting is consistent with the underlying activity.
• Maintain event-level rollforwards and balance-sheet reconciliations and support monthly and final event closeouts by investigating variances and confirming that revenue and ticket costs are reflected accurately in event gross profit.
• Perform and document assigned control procedures over revenue and ticketing completeness, accuracy, valuation, cutoff, and reconciliation, and provide traceable support for management review, internal audit, external audit, and SOX testing.
• Partner with Revenue Operations, Ticketing, Event Finance, and Accounts Payable to resolve missing support, incorrect system activity, duplicate or unmatched transactions, and other data-quality issues before close deadlines.
• Identify recurring exceptions and help improve revenue- and ticketing-to-accounting workflows, system interfaces, reconciliation tools, procedures, and cross-functional ownership; support new event launches and system implementations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or CPA-track candidate preferred.
• Two or more years of accounting experience, including general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close.
• Experience with revenue accounting, inventory, cost accounting, event accounting, ticketing, hospitality, media, sports, or another high-volume transactional environment is preferred.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, including revenue recognition, balance-sheet substantiation, cutoff, and financial-control requirements.
• Advanced Excel skills, including large-data analysis, lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation techniques; experience with NetSuite and ticketing, procurement, or reconciliation systems is a plus.
• Ability to trace transactions across systems, identify root causes, document conclusions, and drive exceptions to resolution through strong cross-functional communication and sound judgment.
• Highly organized and dependable under tight close timelines, with strong attention to detail and an ownership mindset.

What Success Looks Like

• Assigned revenue and ticketing schedules are fully reconciled to NetSuite, supported, and submitted on time each month.
• Event-level revenue, ticket costs, balance-sheet reconciliations, and control documentation are complete and review-ready, with no unresolved differences carried into event closeout.
• Controls are consistently monitored and considered for potential modifications as needed, with monthly documentation of controls performed during month-end accounting close activities.

Hiring Rate Minimum

$67,500 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable State/local minimum salary thresholds)

Hiring Rate Maximum

$90,000 annually

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