Senior Financial Analyst - Assistant Manager

Overview

Deal & Event P&L Ownership

• Build and maintain detailed event-level P&Ls covering ticketing, sponsorship, F&B, merchandise, production, talent, marketing, and overhead allocations.
• Lead pre-event budgeting in partnership with event producers, marketing, and commercial teams; track actuals against budget through the event lifecycle.
• Conduct post-event reconciliation and variance analysis; produce post-mortem reports identifying margin drivers, cost overruns, and revenue realization gaps.
• Model scenarios for ticket pricing, capacity, sponsorship tiers, and cost structures to support commercial decision-making.

ROI & Investment Analysis

• Build business cases for new events, venues, partnerships, and capital investments using NPV, IRR, payback period, and sensitivity analysis.
• Evaluate sponsorship and partnership deals -including telecom, FMCG, and media partners quantifying value-in-kind, cash, and activation costs.
• Analyze artist booking economics, including guarantees, backend splits, production riders, and break-even attendance thresholds.
• Support label and publishing deal analysis: recoupment modeling, advance economics, royalty waterfalls, and rights valuations.

Commercial Business Partnering

• Act as the embedded finance partner to commercial, marketing, and event production leads.
• Translate financial analysis into clear recommendations and trade-offs for non-finance stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions in business cases and pricing proposals; provide an independent commercial view.
• Support contract negotiations with vendors, partners, and talent - providing financial framing on deal terms.

Reporting & Insights

• Produce monthly commercial performance dashboards covering event portfolio P&L, deal pipeline, and ROI tracking.
• Prepare board- and executive-level decks summarizing event performance, deal economics, and forward-looking commercial bets.
• Identify trends across the event portfolio: cost benchmarks, revenue per attendee, sponsorship yield, and margin patterns.

Process & Continuous Improvement

• Standardize event P&L templates, deal evaluation frameworks, and ROI methodologies across the business.
• Partner with accounting and FP&A peers to ensure clean data flow from operational systems into commercial reporting.
• Build repeatable models and tools that scale as the event portfolio grows.
• **5–8 years of experience** in financial analysis, FP&A, investment banking, transaction services, or corporate development.
• **Bachelor's degree** in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
• **Strong financial modeling skills** - building event/deal P&Ls, NPV/IRR analysis, scenario and sensitivity modeling from scratch in Excel.
• **Demonstrated commercial judgment** - ability to identify what drives value in a deal and articulate trade-offs to business stakeholders.
• **Advanced Excel proficiency** (complex modeling, lookups, dynamic arrays, pivot tables) and strong PowerPoint storytelling.
• **Excellent written and verbal English** - comfortable presenting to senior leadership and producing executive-grade output.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in entertainment, live events, media, hospitality, sports, or other event-driven industries.
• CFA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or MBA - fully or partially completed.
• Experience with deal structuring, contract economics, or sponsorship valuation.
• Exposure to BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and SQL for self-serve data analysis.

What We Look For

• A genuinely commercial mindset - you think like a deal-maker, not just an analyst.
• Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete data; able to make defensible assumptions and move fast.
• Intellectual honesty -willing to flag bad deals and unfavorable economics, even when it is unpopular.
• Strong stakeholder management; able to influence without authority across functions.
• Curiosity about the entertainment business and a genuine interest in what we do.

What We Offer

• A front-row seat to one of the most ambitious entertainment businesses in the region.
• High-impact work with direct exposure to executive leadership.
• Competitive tax-free compensation, comprehensive benefits, and relocation support where applicable.
• A fast-paced, creative environment where finance is treated as a strategic partner, not a back-office function.