Tour Accountant / Project Accountant

Tour Accountant/Project Accountant

·      Combine your love for Live Music with your finance skills & experience

·      Either South Melbourne (VIC) or Woolloomooloo (NSW) Location

·      Work with some of the world’s biggest music acts

Australia and New Zealand’s leading concert promoter, Frontier Touring, is looking for a detail-oriented and adaptable Tour Accountant to join our Finance team. This hands-on role will work across reporting, forecasting and reconciling tours and possess skills to think laterally and problem solve. This is an amazing opportunity to combine your love of live music with your financial skills and experience. The ideal candidate will have experience in Tour accounting, project accounting, venue or ticketing industry experience that can be transferred to our industry.

We are open to this role being based in either our Sydney (Woolloomooloo) or Melbourne (South Melbourne) offices. Due the nature of this role, you will need to be willing to travel and be on the road as required. 

The Tour Accountant will be responsible for tracking and management of tour accounts to ensure efficient and accurate payments, reconciliations, reporting, accountability and record-keeping, both in the office and on the road with tours as directed.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Management:

• Maintain a complete and accurate set of accounts and reports related to each tour.
• Calculate, schedule, and process artist payments according to contract milestones and deliverables and applicable withholding tax.
• Assist in the preparation of regular tour forecasting and tour budgets, highlighting any potential risks or budget overruns in advance.
• Collate, code, and enter tour costs into MYOB.
• Prepare tour settlements that reconcile to MYOB.
• Review and reconcile marketing costs in tour tracker against MYOB and tour settlement.
• Prepare and review payments and conduct online banking tasks as required.
• Recognize all tour-related revenue, box office revenue recognition, including invoicing and recovery.
• Prepare interim and final tour P&L/settlement for review
• Report to  external parties as required.
• Compile and maintain tour files for pre and post-tour records to an audit standard, including balance sheet reconciliations.
• Collate supporting documentation for tours, including relevant contracts, legal correspondence, taxation information, and payment records.
• Assist with analysis of touring and marketing costs and budget performance and identify opportunities for efficiencies and cost reductions.
• Preparation of month-end reporting for recognition of tour profits.
• Assist with tour-related tax returns and year-end audit.
• Manage internal systems and databases to ensure the efficient tracking and storage of financial and accounting documents.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work with internal Tour Directors with tour reporting.
• Review and analyse artist and venue contracts for commercial terms.
• Set up and maintain settlement-in-progress files for each tour.
• Liaise with site/production managers, venues, suppliers, tour managers, promoters, and artist tour accountants, managers and agents regarding budgets, forecasts, and settlements.
• Team player, assist and support colleagues by sharing information, knowledge, and skills.
• Communicate clearly and concisely in all types of environments both verbally and in writing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce, Accounting (or similar).
• 8+ years of experience in a finance role.
•  Experience within a Tour Accounting role/entertainment industry would be ideal, but we are open to people with transferable skills and experience in project accounting within the venues, the ticketing industry (or similar).
• High attention to detail and contribute to improving processes.
• Comfortable working in a close-knit team and assisting and supporting colleagues by sharing your knowledge, information, and skills.
• Experience with Office 365 (Teams/Outlook/SharePoint).
• Intermediate level (or above) understanding of MS Excel
• Proficiency in accounting software such as MYOB or similar
• Proactive and able to problem-solve.
• Strong ability to manage your time effectively across multiple tasks and to clearly identify the processes and steps that need to be taken to meet your role requirements and objectives.
• A high attention to detail, confidence, and a positive attitude.

This is a full-time position with a hybrid working model. The required office days are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We are open to this role being based from either our Melbourne or Sydney offices.

If you have all the skills we are looking for and would love to join our team, please send through your CV and cover letter telling us about you and what excites you about the role. Please include your salary expectations (a rough range is fine). Applications without a cover letter will not be reviewed.

Applicants must have existing permanent working rights to be considered for this opportunity. Please don’t apply if you are on a temporary visa or require sponsorship.