Staff Accountant
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 Staff Accountant will play an integral part of the operational accounting group supporting the day-to-day processes as well as the monthly and quarterly book close. The Staff Accountant will provide on-going financial support around transactions with costs related to events.
What will you do?
- Prepare month end journal entries from a variety of source documentation specifically associated with Live events Day of Game costs, maintain event related schedules of deferred and accrued expenses, reclass event related costs (Labor, Non-Labor, etc.)
- Become an integral part of the “post-event” settlement process, ensuring all event related expenses are accounted for.
- Assist with requests from Tax, External, and Internal Audit.
- Assist, recommend, and improve company-wide utilization of financial systems to enhance accuracy and timeliness of reporting.
- Complete special projects and respond to ad-hoc requests in an accurate and timely manner, as assigned.
What do you need to succeed?
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or related discipline.
- 2+years of public accounting experience (Big 4 preferred), or experience in a fast-paced, large public company environment
- Strong understanding of monthly closing processes
- Heavy exposure financial statements, account analysis and reconciliations
- Strong knowledge of GAAP rules
- Excellent quantitative analytical skills
- Experience with oracle and excellent PC, Excel and Word skill
- Ability to evaluate processes and recommend and implement more efficient practices and procedures
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities and open to learning new ways of working.
- Ability to embrace change with a flexible mindset, even if the way forward isn’t clear. Ability to be a reliable team member, capable of effective collaboration to achieve our shared goals across teams and departments.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
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