Acquisition Onboarding Manager - Accounting & Finance

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

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 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide.  Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE ROLE

The Acquisition Onboarding Manager will play a critical role in supporting the company’s growth strategy by leading the financial integration of newly acquired entities into the Group’s operating and reporting framework. This role bridges the gap between transaction close and operational stabilization, ensuring a seamless transition to business-as-usual accounting, reporting, controls, and systems.

The successful candidate will partner cross-functionally with Accounting, Finance, Compliance, Internal Audit, HR, IT, and local business teams to deliver structured onboarding plans, strengthen financial controls, and enable timely and accurate financial reporting.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

Acquisition Integration & Transition

• Lead the end-to-end accounting and finance onboarding process for newly acquired entities.
• Develop and execute structured integration plans to ensure a smooth transition to business-as-usual operations
• Establish clear month-end close and forecast processes, reporting timelines, and accountability frameworks
• Review and validate budgets by comparing local submissions against original CER assumptions, identifying FX, financial and operational variances

Systems & Data Integration

• Coordinate with Finance Systems teams to integrate acquisitions into ERP, consolidation, and reporting platforms (e.g., OneStream, SAP, Rome)
• Align financial data structures, including chart of accounts, reporting hierarchies, and master data governance

Process Standardization & Controls

• Standardize onboarding methodologies by developing integration playbooks, tools, templates, finance models and checklists
• Lead the integration of SOX and internal control frameworks, ensuring newly acquired entities are effectively aligned with internal audit standards per US GAAP, understand control requirements, and adopt compliant processes. 
• Support process mapping initiatives related to new system implementations and financial transformation projects

Stakeholder Management & Training

• Partner with Corporate Accounting, HR, IT, and divisional finance teams to align integration timelines and deliverables
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to local finance teams, including training on reporting systems, policies, and procedures

Performance Monitoring & Reporting

• Track integration progress and operational performance during the first 100 days post-acquisition
• Prepare executive-level updates, ad-hoc financial analysis, and status reports on integration success and key risks

Additional Responsibilities

• Support strategic finance initiatives and special projects as assigned by senior leadership.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent experience in Accounting or Finance; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in accounting, finance, group reporting, or financial transformation
• Demonstrated experience integrating acquisitions into finance organizations and systems.
• Strong understanding of ERP and consolidation environments (e.g., OneStream, SAP, Rome, Workday)
• Solid knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS principles, internal controls, and financial reporting processes
• Proven project management capability with the ability to manage multiple integrations simultaneously
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a continuous improvement mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and regions
• Experience working in fast-paced, evolving environments with a high degree of autonomy and accountability
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and sound judgment
• Fluent Bilingual and experience in Latin America are highly desirable
• Ability to travel internationally for extended durations is required

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

• HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
• YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program
• FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
• CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. 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. 

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. 

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.  Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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