Tour Accountant

Job Description

Live Nation is the world's leading provider of live entertainment, promoting more than 40,000 shows annually for over 5,000 artists across 46 countries. Across Australia and New Zealand, we deliver the best all-round entertainment offering, with international headline concert tours, intimate boutique music events, family entertainment, comedy, festivals and much more.

The position of Tour Accountant is to manage budgeting and show settlements for our tours, working closely with Promotors and other internal teams across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Budgeting:
• Support the promoter through building, reviewing and provide specific input where required into initial tour budgets ensuring the final version shows financial reasonableness.
• Liaise with all departments across the business, interpreting all information received to build tracking budgets (PLS) for promoters.
• Highlight and explain variances and reduce the financial uncertainty around each tour.
• Provide tracking budgets for forecast input.
• Provide actual versus budget review on tours.

Show Settlement:
• Working closely with the Promoters, internal departments to ensure the financial accuracy of each tour.
• Discuss insurance with promotors and if required arrange.
• Arrange per guidelines foreign currency hedging if required.
• Prepare artist deposit as required.
• Work with Tour Settlement Officer (TSO) to arrange and reconcile cash floats for tour reps at each event when required.
• Review venue settlements and assist TSO with financial coding.
• Review and approve in payable system (Inspyrus) tour related invoices as required.
• Prepare artists show settlements and fee reconciliations for settlement with Promoter, Agent or Artist tour accountant as required.
• Work with VIP Manager to present VIP settlements and fee reconciliations for settlement with Promoter, Agent or Artist tour accountant as required.
• Ensure withholding tax calculations are prepared in accordance with both Australian and New Zealand tax codes.

Month End / Finance
• Work closely with Management Accountants to submit tour PLS and fee reconciliations for lodgement at month end subject to month end deadlines.
• Review with MA's detailed reconciliations of any variances to forecast at month end.
• Review with MA's detailed reconciliations of any variances to accruals deferral reports.
• Work closely with Management Accountants to work through any variances of the PLS to the ledger transactions to close out tours to closing tour deadlines.

#LNAPAC #LI-KH3

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re04e8-13-58-247-31-42 in your application.