LN Concerts, Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

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. This position oversees accounting and control in a corporate setting, and interacts with multiple divisions, including the development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures.

The role will involve:

• Performing and supervising month-end close tasks including preparation and review of general ledger entries, analysis and completion of Balance Sheet, P&L reports and variance analytics.
• Reviewing and overseeing period close submissions and assisting in month/quarter end reporting package consolidation.
• Completing various balance sheet schedules to be used by senior management in monthly and quarterly financial statement reviews.
• Overseeing and completing detail reviews regional and/or divisional balance sheets providing accounting guidance as needed ensuring timely completion and documentation of issues identified and resolved.
• Providing accounting guidance to local teams as part of regional/divisional reviews along with divisional management team.
• Assisting in managing central accounting team ensuring compliance with company's policies and objectives.
• Ensuring timely, accurate and reliable financial statements and reporting, and to ensure that policies and procedures meet other organizational objectives and needs.
• Ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and company procedures / policies, including Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Interfacing with company's external and internal auditors.
• Fostering a culture that encourages the highest level of performance, integrity and ethical behavior and cooperation in all business activities.
• Undertaking special projects and/or general management assignments as requested by senior management.

The successful candidate will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, CPA preferred. MBA a plus.
• 7-10 years of comparable work experience.
• First-hand experience in the corporate office of a global, publicly traded company with multi-national locations and revenue greater than $1 billion is strongly preferred.
• Strong accounting experience, ideally in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial company.
• ERP experience, preferably Oracle, but equivalent is sufficient.
• Experience and confidence dealing with auditors, senior management and divisional operations.
• Experience developing and coaching teams to perform at new levels of achievement.
• Strong organizational and time management abilities that allow projects and goals to be completed on time.
• Ability to delegate responsibility and authority to the lowest appropriate level yet be willing to participate directly and actively as required.

Benefits and perks include:

• 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 and baby bonuses, 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

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age, ancestry, color, religious creed, family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability, marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Live Nation 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. 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.