Job Summary:
Company: Live Nation
Department: Finance, EMEA
Location: Farringdon, London
Reports to: VP FP&A
Working Hours: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Description
Live Nation is hiring an FP&A Senior Manager to play a senior role in strengthening EMEA FP&A, combining responsibility for FP&A process governance, forecasting discipline, reporting standards, AI adoption, OneStream readiness and acquisition integration.
This is a senior, hands-on FP&A role designed to support the continued development of the EMEA finance operating model as the business continues to scale through growth, acquisitions, system transformation and increasing reporting complexity. The successful candidate will partner closely with regional finance teams, senior stakeholders and the VP FP&A to improve forecast quality, standardise reporting, strengthen performance insight and reduce reliance on manual reporting processes.
The role will support the timetable, standards and quality review process for core FP&A deliverables, helping ensure that regional submissions are complete, credible and relevant. It will also contribute to embedding AI-enabled commentary, consistent reporting templates, OneStream readiness and more scalable FP&A ways of working across EMEA.
The successful candidate will be a credible senior finance professional with strong FP&A experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, strong process discipline and the confidence to challenge assumptions across multiple markets. They will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, international live entertainment environment and will bring the judgement, structure and leadership needed to help strengthen FP&A as a performance, planning and transformation-focused function.
What we can offer you
Live Nation offers impressive employee benefits including tickets to shows and festivals and unlimited annual leave. The Farmiloe Building in Farringdon, London is a beautiful office to work in. Staff can enjoy use of arcade games in the basement games room, onsite gym equipment plus fitness and meditation classes. In addition to this, the office has a fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista to serve you your favourite coffee as you walk into the office and offers heavily subsidised lunch options. We hold regular staff events in our atrium stage space including hosting speakers and open mic nights to showcase Live Nation employee talent.
Who you are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
- ACA qualified, or equivalent, with strong post-qualified experience in FP&A, commercial finance or financial reporting.
- Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting within a complex, multi-market organisation.
- Proven ability to review and challenge forecasts, assumptions, risks, opportunities and market commentary.
- Strong understanding of month-end reporting, forecast consolidation, budget processes and senior stakeholder reporting.
- Excellent Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to work confidently with large and complex datasets.
- Experience with finance systems and reporting tools such as Oracle, BPC/EPM, OneStream and Microsoft Office.
- Experience with dashboards and reporting platforms such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Strong interest in AI, automation and the use of technology to improve reporting quality, speed and insight.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage regional finance teams and senior leadership.
Behaviours
The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success:
- Highly organised, deadline-driven and process-oriented.
- Confident challenging assumptions and driving accountability across markets.
- Comfortable operating at both detailed review level and senior summary level.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for quality, consistency and delivery.
- Collaborative and able to influence without direct authority across regions and functions.
- Curious about and comfortable using AI and technology as part of a controlled, human-reviewed finance process.
- Team player with a positive, can-do attitude.
What the role includes
FP&A ownership
- Own FP&A review and business partnering for EMEA with a focus on certain markets.
- Review and challenge of forecast submissions, ensuring assumptions are complete, credible and well supported.
- Monitor regional risks, opportunities, forecast accuracy and submission quality.
- Partner with local finance teams to improve forecast discipline, reporting consistency and commentary quality.
- Support acquisition onboarding and integration activity within the division, ensuring new businesses adopt standard FP&A templates, timelines and reporting expectations.
Forecasting and budget responsibilities
- Support the monthly forecast timetable and submission process across EMEA.
- Coordinate forecast consolidation across all regions and business lines.
- Ensure consistent forecasting standards, templates and definitions are applied across markets.
- Review regional submissions for quality, completeness, consistency and credibility.
- Coordinate the annual budget process across regions and business lines.
- Act as the key operational escalation point for forecast process issues before VP review.
Reporting and pack responsibilities
- Support the reporting timetable, reporting standards and quality assurance process for EMEA FP&A outputs.
- Perform consistency review across Concerts, Sponsorship and Venues reporting.
- Ensure regional commentary is comparable, concise and relevant.
- Review AI-generated commentary and ensure outputs are accurate, controlled and appropriately challenged before publication.
- Support the move from manual pack production to an automated, AI-assisted reporting process.
FP&A process governance and transformation support
- Support the VP FP&A in strengthening EMEA FP&A processes, controls and ways of working.
- Support pan-EMEA FP&A process governance, including timetables, templates, reporting standards and review disciplines.
- Help drive consistency in submissions, definitions, commentary and reporting outputs across markets.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve reporting quality through automation and standardisation.
- Support OneStream FP&A readiness and business adoption from an EMEA FP&A perspective.
- Support acquisition and integration processes by helping acquired businesses adopt standard
FP&A reporting, forecasting and governance requirements.
AI adoption and reporting innovation
- Support AI governance for FP&A, including approved use cases, review standards and commentary controls.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled variance commentary, forecast narratives, executive summaries and pack drafting.
- Ensure AI outputs are subject to appropriate human review, financial challenge and quality control.
- Work with the FP&A team to develop prompt templates, repeatable workflows and controlled AI-enabled reporting processes.
- Be curious & identify opportunities to use automation, dashboards and structured data to improve reporting efficiency and insight generation.
Stakeholder management and leadership support
- Support the VP FP&A on key operational FP&A matters and process improvement initiatives.
- Partner with regional finance leads, market finance teams and central stakeholders to improve forecast and reporting quality.
- Support senior stakeholder reviews by preparing clear, consistent and action-focused financial insight.
- Provide coaching and guidance to wider team on forecasting, reporting, commentary and process standards.
- Build strong relationships across finance, data, operations and transformation teams.
Other responsibilities
- Support ad hoc financial analysis, performance reviews and senior leadership requests as required.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of FP&A reporting, process design and data quality.
- Support development of KPI reporting, dashboard adoption and self-service reporting where relevant.
- Maintain a strong control mindset across reporting outputs, AI use, forecast processes and data handling.
Equal Opportunities
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. 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. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
The Company
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 600 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world, promoting more than 55,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for over 10,000 artists in over 55 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programmes that connect over 1,000 brands with the 150+ million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit Live Nation Entertainment.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3rd September 2026. We reserve the right to close applications at any time.
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