Senior Tour Accountant

AEG Presents is one of the world’s leading companies in live entertainment, promoting memorable sell-out UK tours for the world’s biggest artists along with some amazing festivals and outdoor events including American Express Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park, and all Points East.

Their Finance team are looking for a Senior Tour Accountant who will be responsible for Tour accounting & reporting. Including but not limited to: Financial modeling, settlement, reconciling shows and coordinating with other departments.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Prepare tour provisional settlements and packs in advance of each tour for the Promoter to review prior to handing to the show Rep to enable show settlements to be presented and agreed with artist representatives.
• Review artist provisional settlements, ticket sales, costs and effect on the budget and raise any concerns to the tour accounts manager/ promoter.
• Co-ordinating artist deposit, balance and overage payments ensuring all necessary withholding and recharge deductions are made.
• Prepare full tour profit and loss settlement post tour for artists, co-promoters and finance.

• Review and account for all tour floats.
• Maintain the progression of settlements, outstanding items and resolve queries of multiple concurrent tours.
• Liaising with the Promoter, Touring, Legal and Finance departments to ensure artist contracts are processed in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all relevant information is communicated speedily and accurately for the understanding of non-finance stakeholders.
• Work with promoters to refine projections and work with production reps to control show spending.

• Confidently liaise with Artist management/ agents to explain settlements and provide relevant backup.
• Liaise with Ticketing to ensure all income streams have been reported correctly.
• Liaise with venues to obtain final venue settlements for shows in a timely manner, ensuring accuracy and send for internal processing.
• Maintaining the excellent records of show documents in the tour folder.
• Support the Production department on Managing AEG’s Requirements from Third Party tour representatives, including coordinating all aspects of reps on tours including, contracts, settlements, and rep expenditure for the show.

• Continue to identify improvements for the inhouse system (Alto) to replace existing “adhoc” communication methods such as email, spreadsheets, or manual processes.

We’re looking for someone with relevant arena level tour accountant experience from a live music or events background. You’ll have knowledge and experience in FEU accounting and knowledge of PRS.

You’ll be an expert in Excel; have a positive, “can do” attitude; and be solutions focussed and looking to raise the bar.

This role involves working across different departments within AEG Presents, so you’ll need to be able to interact with a variety of people and build good working relationships.

You’ll be committed and flexible in your approach, be able to work under pressure, multi-task and prioritise a varied and busy workload.

UK travel may be necessary along with along with antisocial hours, including weekend and evenings to attend shows for settlement purposes.

We’ll give you a thorough induction so you can meet other new starters and get to know how things work at AEG. You’ll be given all the information you need to know how thing work in the Finance team so that you’ll be set up for success. We encourage new ideas and innovation, so don’t be afraid to contribute right from your first day!

Where:

You’ll be based at our vibrant and relaxed head office in Blackfriars, a short walk from Southwark tube station. We have flexible start and finish times and welcome flexible working conversations.

So why apply?

AEG is an inclusive organisation where we value everybody’s contribution. We empower and trust our people to do the right thing. We go the extra mile, for our customers and each other, every time. We are always open to new ideas and respect all opinions. We support and bring out the best in each other. We really value our people and inspire them to be the best in class, always!

You can find out about our Vision and Values here: https://careers.aegeurope.com/our-values and our Employee Network Groups here: https://careers.aegeurope.com/our-culture/employee-network-groups/

Our benefits can be found here: AEG Benefits

Our commitment to inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe in equality of opportunity for all and our approach to recruitment and selection is fair, open and based purely on merit. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.