We are looking for a Staff Accountant to join a fast-paced finance team supporting the accounting behind live events and commercial activity.
This role will have broad exposure across the accounting cycle, including month-end close, revenue and expense recognition, account analysis, reconciliations, and financial reporting support. A significant part of the position involves taking information generated by operational teams and various business systems and ensuring it is properly reflected in the company's financial records.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on accountant who enjoys digging into the details, researching discrepancies, and understanding the business activity driving the numbers.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of assigned general ledger accounts and supporting monthly schedules.
- Prepare and post journal entries as part of the month-end accounting close.
- Review business activity to determine the appropriate timing and classification of revenue and expenses.
- Analyze receivable, prepaid, accrued, deferred, and other balance sheet accounts.
- Track financial activity associated with individual events from initial activity through final settlement.
- Compare information across accounting systems, operational platforms, vendor records, and internal reporting to identify discrepancies.
- Research unmatched, duplicated, missing, or incorrectly recorded transactions and coordinate necessary corrections.
- Review event-related purchases, customer activity, refunds, credits, cancellations, fees, and other adjustments for appropriate accounting treatment.
- Assist in determining the financial performance of completed events by ensuring related income and costs have been fully captured.
- Prepare account reconciliations with clear supporting documentation and explanations for outstanding items.
- Work closely with finance, operations, accounts payable, and other internal teams throughout the monthly close.
- Provide schedules and documentation requested for audits, financial controls, and internal reviews.
- Help strengthen accounting procedures by identifying recurring issues and opportunities to improve existing processes.
- Participate in finance projects involving new systems, reporting enhancements, process automation, and growing business operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of accounting experience within a corporate or similarly structured environment.
- Experience preparing journal entries, performing account reconciliations, and participating in month-end close.
- Solid understanding of accrual accounting and U.S. GAAP.
- Ability to work through large volumes of financial and transactional information.
- Strong Excel capabilities, particularly with pivot tables, lookup functions, and data analysis.
- ERP experience required; familiarity with NetSuite is a plus.
- Previous exposure to revenue, inventory, cost accounting, or transaction-intensive businesses is helpful.
- Experience within entertainment, events, sports, hospitality, media, or similar industries is beneficial but not required.
- Strong investigative skills with the ability to follow financial activity from source documentation through the general ledger.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working against recurring reporting deadlines.
Compensation: $80,000-82,500Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications.
