LN Venues, Director of Accounting
About The Position
Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprising global market leaders Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is a global leader in event ticketing, selling over 620 million tickets annually to approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment, promoting over 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists across 40+ countries. These businesses enable Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs, connecting over 1,200 sponsors with 145 million fans attending Live Nation Entertainment events each year. The ideal candidate is passionate, motivated, driven, entrepreneurial, resourceful, innovative, forward-thinking, and committed. This Director of Accounting position oversees accounting and control in a corporate setting, interacting with multiple divisions, and is responsible for the development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures. Key responsibilities include corporate reporting of Venue Nation’s financial information, general accounting and controls, and ensuring appropriate systems and processes for timeliness, accuracy, thoroughness, and full compliance with GAAP and corporate mandates.
Requirements
- Strong operating accounting experience, ideally in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial company.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including an established record of success in progressively more responsible senior accounting/finance positions
- Experience and confidence dealing with 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.
- Be a self-motivated individual who possesses a “roll up the sleeves attitude” and a “hands-on” style, as well as the aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced, results- oriented environment.
- Possess superb verbal, written, and interpersonal skills and have outstanding persuasion and presentation skills; be an articulate communicator and good listener.
- Embrace, support and exemplify the Company’s ideals and core values.
- Demonstrate the highest level of personal ethics and professional integrity to engender total confidence in his or her business and moral conduct.
Nice To Haves
- CPA
- MBA
Responsibilities
- Establish, implement, and enforce financial and reporting policies and standards in compliance with GAAP and FASB, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC and the requirements of other applicable regulatory bodies.
- Oversee internal controls to ensure timely, accurate and reliable financial statements and reporting, and to ensure that policies and procedures meet other organizational objectives and needs.
- Review and certification of monthly consolidated financial statements.
- Interface with company’s external and internal auditors.
- Develop and implement information systems and applications to ensure adequate support for the organization’s accounting and control functions.
- Proactively communicate meaningful financial information to management and Operations to enable them to make prudent decisions.
- Manage a strong accounting department, which will fully support the company’s objectives and which will be held accountable for timely, proactive and high-quality performance.
- Assist the VP of Finance on a wide variety of special projects, such as forecasting and acquisition integrations
- Support recruiting, onboarding, training and development for various team members
- Foster a culture that encourages the highest level of integrity and ethical behavior in all business activities.
- Undertake special projects and/or general management assignments as requested by senior management.
Benefits
- Medical benefits for you and your family
- Vision benefits for you and your family
- Dental benefits for you and your family
- Mental health benefits for you and your family
- Access to a health care concierge
- Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
- Free concert tickets
- Generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
- 401(k) program with company match
- Stock reimbursement program
- New parent programs including caregiver leave
- Fertility support
- Adoption support
- Foster support
- Surrogacy support
- Career and skill development programs with School of Live
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan repayment
- Volunteer time off
- Crowdfunding match
- Six months of paid caregiver leave for new parents including fostering
- Perks like Roadie Babies helping new parents care for their babies on work trips
- Access to free live events through our exclusive employee ticketing program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
