Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) is a leader in live entertainment, delivering unforgettable experiences while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences. The Company’s portfolio includes a collection of world-renowned venues – New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre – that showcase a broad array of sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events for millions of guests annually. In addition, the Company features the original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for 90 years. More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com.
Who are we hiring
The Senior Director of Accounting is responsible for overseeing the monthly closing process, account analysis, quarterly external, internal, and tax reporting packages for corporate departments, including threat management, technology, legal, people practices, finance and government affairs. The Senior Director provides strategic direction and leadership to the team, ensuring the accuracy, integrity and compliance of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. As a cross-functional collaborator, The Senior Director is critical to supporting the company’s financial operations, ensuring transparency and providing insightful analysis to facilitate decision making.
What will you do?
- Lead a team of accounting professionals, managing public company monthly closing for corporate accounting, including the preparation of all journal entries, company-wide mass allocations, recurring entries and account reconciliations in accordance with the monthly closing calendar.
- Manage quarterly external reporting deliverables, tax compliance and internal and external audit requests.
- Review Oracle financial reports for variances and provide guidance and assistance to Corporate Accounting staff. Ensuring timely and accurate closing of Oracle General Ledger and fixed asset subledgers.
- Manage debt, pension plan accounting, stock compensation, and other employee benefit accounting matters.
- Oversee the fixed asset process, including the operating effectiveness of key controls such as Capital Authorization Request approval process and related reconciliation process between subledger and general ledger.
- Effectively manage, motivate, and train assigned staff and provide regular (daily where appropriate) status of work-in-progress responsibilities to the Vice President of Accounting.
- Evaluate and identify areas of potential exposure and internal control weakness and evaluate and improve processes and workflows to improve completion times.
- Assist in updates and system conversions for general ledger and subledgers, suggest enhancements, and confirm functionality of delivered products meet requested expectations.
- Provide insight on current processes and supporting the Finance groups in delivery of Budget and Forecasts.
What do you need to succeed?
- BS or BA in Accounting/Finance, or equivalent
- 10+ years of experience, in public accounting and/or accounting in private industry
- Attention to detail, strong self-review & strict adherence to deadlines is critical
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and SEC rules and regulations
- Ability to handle multiple tasks in a changing environment
- Ability to analyze financial statements, including income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, tailoring the message based on the purpose, audience, and channel
- Prior supervisory experience a must
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office required
- Experience with Financial Systems and corporate applications with Oracle Cloud (Fusion) proficiency strongly preferred
- Ability to embrace change with a flexible mindset, even if the way forward isn’t clear
- CPA strongly preferred
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Pay Range
$134,000—$190,000 USD
At MSG, we recognize the importance of upskilling employees’ talents and strengths so they can drive their careers forward. We are proud to offer a robust set of tools and resources to help employees understand their interests and purpose, harness their talents and obtain the skills they need to reach the next step in their careers. Growth and longevity for our employees are top priorities here.
We value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! MSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual and reproductive health choices, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law mandates, MSG complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in all locations and will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required.
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What We Do
MSG Entertainment is a world leader in live entertainment, comprised of world-renowned venues and marquee brands. Utilizing our powerful assets and expertise, we produce, present, or host a variety of entertainment and sports events, delivering unforgettable experiences for millions of fans each year. Across our venues and brands, MSG Entertainment sets the standard for excellence and innovation while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences.
Our Company includes our portfolio of iconic venues: New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre – each a prominent destination for unforgettable experiences and events. With flexible seating capacities and configurations that range from 2,800 to 21,000, our venues enable us to showcase a broad array of compelling sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events that cover a wide spectrum of genres. This includes at Madison Square Garden, known as “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” which serves as home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers – two of the most recognized franchises in professional sports – and perennially hosts the biggest names in music and entertainment.
MSG Entertainment also features the wholly-owned original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for generations of fans at Radio City Music Hall since 1933. The show’s enduring popularity is driven by the world-famous Radio City Rockettes, the longest-running precision dance company in America.
More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com
