Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst

Job Summary:

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.

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 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.

• 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.

• 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