FP&A Senior Manager (EMEA)

• Reports to: VP FP&A
• Contract Type: Permanent
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• HEALTH: Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program Reimbursement
• YOURSELF: Paid time off policy including holidays, sick time, and day off for your birthday, free concert tickets
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonus, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage regional finance teams and senior leadership
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting within a complex, multi-market organisation
• ACA qualified, or equivalent, with strong post-qualified experience in FP&A, commercial finance or financial reporting
• Excellent Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to work confidently with large and complex datasets
• Strong understanding of month-end reporting, forecast consolidation, budget processes and senior stakeholder reporting
• Proven ability to review and challenge forecasts, assumptions, risks, opportunities and market commentary
• 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
• Experience with finance systems and reporting tools such as Oracle, BPC/EPM, OneStream and Microsoft Office
• Team player with a positive, can-do attitude
• Highly organised, deadline-driven and process-oriented
• Curious about and comfortable using AI and technology as part of a controlled, human-reviewed finance process
• Collaborative and able to influence without direct authority across regions and functions
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for quality, consistency and delivery
• Comfortable operating at both detailed review level and senior summary level
• Confident challenging assumptions and driving accountability across markets