About This Role
This corporate finance position supports budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and financial planning across the company's venue portfolio. You will work with finance and operating teams to explain results, update forecasts, and evaluate business decisions. It is a corporate finance position rather than an accounting, audit, or investment-management role.
Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly financial reports comparing actual results with budgets, forecasts, and prior periods
- Investigate revenue and expense variances and explain the main business drivers in clear language
- Update monthly forecasts for assigned venues and corporate departments
- Support the annual budgeting and long-range planning processes
- Build and maintain financial models for attendance, ticket revenue, event costs, labor, food and beverage sales, and facility expenses
- Partner with venue leaders to review performance and improve the accuracy of operating assumptions
- Prepare dashboards, presentation materials, and concise commentary for leadership meetings
- Evaluate proposed events, equipment purchases, vendor agreements, and other business decisions
- Check financial data for completeness and work with Accounting to resolve reporting discrepancies
- Improve recurring reports and reduce unnecessary manual spreadsheet work
- Provide financial information and recommendations
Requirements
- At least two years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial analysis, accounting, or a comparable analytical role
- Understanding of income statements, budgets, forecasts, accruals, and variance analysis
- Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, conditional formulas, and structured financial models
- Ability to identify the business cause behind a financial variance rather than only report the number
- Clear written and verbal communication with both finance and non-finance colleagues
- Careful handling of confidential financial and commercial information
- Ability to manage recurring deadlines while responding to reasonable ad hoc requests
Nice to have:
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field is preferred. Candidates with equivalent professional experience will also be considered
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, NetSuite, Adaptive Planning, entertainment, hospitality, or multi-location operations
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar company match on the first 5% of eligible compensation
- 18 days of PTO
- 48 hours of paid sick leave
- 11 company holidays
- Two paid volunteer days annually
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave
- Caregiver resources
- Employee assistance program
- Up to $2,500 annually for approved courses, certifications, conferences, and financial systems training
- Company laptop
- Necessary software
- $75 monthly internet allowance
- Subsidized parking or public transportation
- Quarterly ticket allowance for participating events
- Employee discounts on eligible food and merchandise
- Relocation assistance
Important Details
- Work arrangement: three days in the office and two remote days per week
- Schedule: Monday–Friday, generally 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Typical hours: Approximately 40 hours per week; 40–45 hours during month-end reporting and annual planning
- Travel: Up to 10% for occasional venue visits and planning meetings
- Team: The FP&A team consists of a director, two senior analysts, and three analysts, each supporting a defined group of venues and corporate departments
Application Process
- A 30-minute introductory call with a Corporate Recruiter
- A 45-minute video interview with the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
- A 60-minute live working session using a simplified venue income statement and forecast. You will identify several variances and explain what additional information you would request. No advance preparation or take-home assignment is required
- Two 30-minute conversations with a Senior Financial Analyst and Regional Operations Director
- Final reference, employment, and education-verification checks, followed by a written offer
About the Company
Stageway Venues operates music venues, conference spaces, and flexible event facilities across the southeastern United States. The company provides the physical spaces, ticketing support, staffing, food-service coordination, and operating systems needed to host concerts, business events, and community programs. Its Charlotte headquarters supports finance, marketing, venue operations, and commercial partnerships across the portfolio.