FP&A Business Partner, Entertainment Sector

About the role

International live entertainment group is looking for a person to create the FP&A function from scratch (within a new line of business). You will be the financial partner to commercial and operational managers: you will build visibility on profitability, sales, and cash, help drive decision-making, and contribute to integrating ways of working across teams.

What you'll do

• Build the economic planning and monitoring model for the new line of business, from the P&L by show and tour to the consolidated portfolio forecast.
• Support the economic analysis and approval of opportunities: artist fees and guarantees, escalations and variables, venues, capacities, sales capacity, pricing, production costs, marketing, and demand scenarios.
• Monitor sales and ticketing curves against the plan, detect risks, and propose concrete actions alongside commercial and ticketing managers.
• Prepare budgets, reforecasts, and variance analyses by show, tour, promoter, and company; separate the effects of volume, pricing, mix, costs, and calendar.
• Provide visibility on advances, commitments, revenue and payment schedules, financing needs, and cash exposure; coordinate with Cash Flow and Finance Operations, without assuming the execution of payments.
• Reconcile the actual results of events with forecasts, using settlements and information from Booking Administration/Backoffice, Production, and Accounting; identify learnings for future deals.
• Work with bookers and promoters, who are responsible for the P&L of their shows: Finance provides models, discipline, comparability, and alerts, without replacing commercial ownership or creating a bottleneck.
• Help integrate data, definitions, calendars, and tools between OpCos and teams; develop simple and useful reporting, avoiding bureaucracy and recurring manual reconciliations.
• Prepare clear analyses for Touring leadership, FP&A Iberia, and Group Finance, highlighting opportunities, risks, and pending decisions.

What we're looking for

• Experience coordinating different stakeholders
• Experience automating processes

At least 5 years of experience in FP&A, commercial controlling, project finance, or business partnering, with mastery of budgets, forecasts, and financial modeling.

• Essential experience dealing with different stakeholders and in process automation and improvement.
• Advanced Excel and the ability to build robust models from incomplete information; the capacity to translate numbers into commercial decisions.
• Intermediate/high English.
• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or similar.

It is fundamental to have a lot of tact. The position will work with promoters, bookers, programming, ticketing, production, backoffice, and finance from different companies. We need a curious person, with analytical credibility and commercial sensitivity, capable of questioning an assumption without damaging the relationship. You must listen, build trust, persuade, and achieve practical progress in a context where not everything is defined.

Nice to have

• Valuable experience in live music, touring, concerts, ticketing, events, or other project-based businesses; coming from the industry is not essential.
• Valuable experience integrating businesses, creating functions, or implementing new planning models with multiple stakeholders.

What you'll get

• Very dynamic international environment.
• Company in full growth and expansion.
• Sector: entertainment.
• Offices: Chamberí (remote work).

About the company & team

International live entertainment group is looking for a person to create the FP&A function from scratch (within a new line of business). You will be the financial partner to commercial and operational managers: you will build visibility on profitability, sales, and cash, help drive decision-making, and contribute to integrating ways of working across teams.

Additional information

• Process led by Elena Álvarez.