Senior Accountant

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Join a fast-paced, event-driven organization where your work directly impacts financial decision-making.
• Serve as the Senior Accountant responsible for event profitability analysis and financial reporting.
• Partner closely with leadership, operations, box office, and food & beverage teams.
• Gain exposure to ticketing revenue, concessions, merchant services, event settlements, inventory, and tax compliance.
• Take ownership of monthly event-level profit and loss reporting.
• Work across multiple financial and operational systems, building broad accounting expertise.
• Help strengthen internal controls, improve reporting processes, and drive operational efficiencies.
• Enjoy a highly visible Senior Accountant role with significant interaction across departments.
• Expand your experience within the performing arts, entertainment, and hospitality sectors.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment where the Senior Accountant plays a key role in organizational success.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze monthly event-level profit and loss statements as the Senior Accountant supporting venue operations.
• Reconcile ticketing, food and beverage, merchant service, banking, and accounts receivable transactions across multiple systems.
• Manage event deposits, advances, deferred revenue, prepayments, and related accounting activity.
• Prepare sales and use tax filings, journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end close documentation.
• Investigate discrepancies, resolve financial variances, and maintain organized, audit-ready support.
• Collaborate with operational staff, vendors, and finance personnel to ensure accurate and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Proven experience as a Senior Accountant or in a comparable accounting role.
• Strong background preparing profit and loss statements, financial reports, reconciliations, and month-end close documentation.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, financial analysis, and data reconciliation.
• Experience working with accounting systems, banking platforms, payment processors, POS systems, ticketing software, or ERP solutions.

Preferred Experience

• Experience as a Senior Accountant within performing arts, entertainment, hospitality, convention center, arena, theater, or live-event environments.
• Experience with ticketing and point-of-sale platforms such as Spektrix, Clover Sport, Bypass, or similar systems.
• Merchant service reconciliations, credit card settlement activity, chargeback management, and payment processing.
• Georgia sales and use tax compliance.
• Food & beverage, concession, inventory, or hospitality-related accounting experience.