Staff Accountant, Revenue & Ticketing

This position supports revenue accounting, ticketing accounting, or a combination of both based on the assigned event portfolio. The role connects 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. It partners closely with Revenue Operations, Ticketing and Commercial Strategy, Event Finance, Accounts Payable and Controllership.

The position operates in a high-volume transactional environment, investigating differences across systems and translating operational activity into reliable accounting entries and reconciliations.

• 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 recognised 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 roll forwards 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.
• Ensure assigned revenue and ticketing schedules are fully reconciled to Net Suite, supported and submitted on time each month, and that event-level revenue, ticket costs, balance-sheet reconciliations and control documentation are complete and review-ready.
• With controls monitored and documented during month-end close and no unresolved differences carried into event closeout.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Two or more years of accounting experience, including general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, accruals and month-end close.
• 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.
• Ability to trace…