LN Venues, Finance AI Lead
Live Nation Entertainment · Chicago, Illinois, United States
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 JOB
Venue Nation is seeking a technical leader to help transform how our Finance organization operates - from automating complex workflows to enabling smarter decision-making at scale. You will partner directly with Finance leadership and Accounting teams to identify high-impact opportunities, then design and build the AI-powered solutions that deliver on them, spanning financial reporting, close, reconciliation, and forecasting.
This is a builder-leader role: your solutions ship to production, and your judgment shapes how AI is applied across the finance function. Based within Venue Nation Analytics alongside our Data Science team, you will own solutions from discovery through production. Your work will span a growing portfolio of projects sponsored by the Division CFO. We are looking for a self-starter who brings structure to undefined problems - someone who knows finance from the inside and can build the AI solutions it needs.
WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
Partner and Prioritize
- Partner with Finance leadership and accounting teams to identify and prioritize the highest-impact opportunities across financial reporting, transaction accounting, close, reconciliation, and forecasting.
- Map accounting workflows end to end and redesign processes around AI where it adds the most value.
- Serve as a translator between finance and technical stakeholders, ensuring solutions reflect business needs and adhere to necessary controls.
Build and Ship
- Design and build AI-powered solutions across the accounting lifecycle, from high-volume transactional work (invoice coding, cash application, account reconciliations, journal-entry support, and close-task coordination) to management reporting, forecasting, and decision support.
- Apply large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows to real business problems, selecting the right approach for each use case.
- Stand up pilots in development environments to validate solutions with finance users, and partner with Data Services to deploy to production.
- Collaborate with the Data Science team to apply AI to forecasting and planning workflows, including variance detection and driver analysis.
Build for Trust and Auditability
- Develop evaluation frameworks that measure solution accuracy and reliability against defined thresholds, and produce the documentation needed to meet Finance governance and audit requirements.
- Design human-in-the-loop review workflows, exception handling, and confidence-based routing so that AI-enabled solutions earn trust incrementally.
- Ensure financial calculations are performed through deterministic, auditable logic rather than generative outputs.
Compound the Capability
- Contribute reusable components, patterns, and best practices that accelerate AI delivery across the Analytics organization.
- Monitor deployed solutions for accuracy drift, performance, cost, and adoption, and iterate based on what you learn.
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in finance, accounting, or finance technology roles.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building AI, machine learning, or LLM-based solutions for finance processes.
- Deep understanding of finance and accounting processes - close, reconciliation, financial reporting, and forecasting - and how financial results tie to underlying transactional data.
- Experience integrating with ERP or Salesforce-based systems of record.
- Experience building and deploying AI solutions and agentic applications for business users, from prototype through adoption.
- Expert Python and SQL skills, with experience building against modern cloud data platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous.
- environments - defining scope, prioritizing, and delivering outcomes without dedicated project management support.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and finance audiences and present clearly to senior leadership.
Preferred
- Experience in a finance transformation, finance systems, or intelligent automation practice.
- Full-stack or front-end development experience (e.g., React, Streamlit) sufficient to build user-facing review interfaces.
- Experience with Databricks (Apps, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Genie) or a comparable lakehouse platform.
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, 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