Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

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 ROLE

The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst for Live Nation will work on Roc Nation (a segment of Live Nation). This person must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and maintain relationships within the company. This role is an integral part of the overall Roc Nation finance and accounting function, and requires partnering with Finance and business leaders to lead financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and strategic analysis.

The candidate must be able to translate detailed financial information to various audiences, persuasively presenting complex business issues and potential solutions in a clear and concise manner. This role is responsible for financial planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting. It will be important to proactively build relationships within the team and across the business, as a trusted and reliable source of information and support.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Oversee the month-end close process, including variance analysis and monthly reporting. 

• Act as a key contributor/creator of the annual budget and monthly forecasts.

• Manage spend tracking, reporting, and analytics – including contract monitoring, category-level spend, and margin summaries.

• Support recurring operational reporting across pacing, cost tracking, royalty reconciliation, and event-level analytics. 

• Identify data points that are reliable indicators of future performance, continually exploring sources to challenge assumptions, clarify our understanding of financial relationships, and enhance accuracy. 

• Partner with business to reflect departmental priorities into budgets and departmental realities into forecasts. 

• Understand risks & opportunities and incorporate them into sensitivity analysis on short-, medium- and long-term time horizons. 

• Present forecasts and results to senior finance and business leaders.

• Develop and track KPIs that will result in the business meeting its objectives. 

• Identify ways to enhance financial processes and reporting capabilities to drive efficiency.

• Provide financial and operational support for Roc Nation and subsidiaries’ teams.

• Handle special projects and ad hoc requests as needed.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL DO

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is required.

• 5+ years related work experience with proven success in FP&A

• Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills with attention to detail

• Natural financial literacy with the ability to distill complicated concepts and models into actionable plans to update routinely

• Advanced MS Excel skills, proficient PowerPoint user with experience with BI tools (e.g., OneStream, Oracle Fusion, and SAP BPC)

• Comfort with fast-paced, deadline-driven close cycles

• Flexible communication skills that allow you to understand & explain complex relationships within financial data, while condensing to core factors in plain English for those outside Finance, and the ability to partner across departments

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

• A strategic mindset, bias towards action, skepticism of the status quo, and can-do attitude - someone who is not afraid to dig in, uncover problems, and find solutions.

• Strong interpersonal skills - ability to interact with all disciplines, levels, and cultures and build relationships

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work independently with little supervision

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 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

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.

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The expected compensation for this position is:

$80,000.00 USD - $100,000.00 USD

** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.

Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.