Key Responsibilities
- Support the Asia Touring Team and local markets through building, reviewing, and updating tour budgets, reports and Settlements.
- Liaise with LN Production Rep and local finance to ensure production cost budgets are up to date and accurate, plus all quotes and final invoices are provided in a timely manner for settlement.
- Work closely with relevant Production and Tour Managers, Agents, Venues, Vendors where appropriate to ensure costs are being managed across a tour.
- Highlight and explain variances and reduce the financial uncertainty around each tour.
- Liaise with local finance teams to obtain settlements, review, and negotiate any points of issue, agree funds transfers.
- Facilitate artist deposit payments, interim payments, as required.
- Arrange cash float in advance for tours, through the local finance departments.
- Key contact on the ground during the tour, available to provide support and approval for request from the Tour/Agent.
- Prepare artists show settlements and fee reconciliations for settlement with Promoter, Agent or Artist tour accountant as required.
- Work closely with Promoter, Agent (or artist management) and tax agent to ensure Withholding Tax being calculated correctly.
- Provide artist or artist tax accountant with Tax Certificates as required.
- Ensure VIP has provided you with the settlement and fee reconciliations within the required deadlines.
- Ensure Marketing has provided you with the final spend and settlement pack within the required deadlines.
- Ensure the finance department has Tour settlements in a timely manner for month end reporting.
- Complete and manage the Tour Report and Final Tour Cross Settlement and Payment Summaries.
- Ensure all event related reports/summaries/invoices saved in tour folders.
- Save payment remittances & supporting documents in tour folder.
- Actively review settlement process to identify efficiencies / improvements.
Requirement
- An excellent communicator and team player
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral, with attention to detail.
- Excellent time management with ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and Outlook
- 5-10 yearsβ experience in an accounting function, experience in touring or live events is highly regarded
- You are highly inquisitive, not afraid to ask questions and constructively challenge, to understand other perspectives and what you need to know to deliver desired outcomes.
- Good knowledge of major ticketing audits and reports (Ticketmaster, Ticketek, Moshtix etc) is an advantage.
- Willing to travel frequently
- The actual work location can be further determined, but it will be based in an Asian market where we have a presence and will be subject to the respective work authorisation requirements (e.g., visa approval).
Contact Detail:
Live Nation Asia Recruiting Team