Location: London, UK
Reporting To: Senior Commercial Finance Manager
Contract Term: Temp Position (initial term 3 months FTC, with potential to become permanent in 2025)
About LIV Golf
The LIV Golf League is the world’s only global golf league featuring 13 teams, a 14-tournament schedule, and many of the world’s best golfers. Launched in 2022, the League was designed to expand the sport on a global level and create new value within the golfing ecosystem while enhancing the game’s societal impact. A landmark investment by LIV Golf also launched The International Series, a set of 10 enhanced events sanctioned by the Asian Tour, with elevated prize funds in world-class destinations, offering a pathway for leading professional and amateur golfers from around the world into the LIV Golf League. Hall of Fame golfer and renowned businessman, Greg Norman, is the League’s first and founding CEO and Commissioner. Only two years into operations and with tournaments across North and Latin Americas, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, LIV Golf remains committed to developing the sport at every level and exposing more people to the positive virtues of the game through its unique blend of intense competition and entertainment.
History
LIV Golf launched in 2022 as an eight-event ‘Invitational Series.’ 2023 saw the inaugural LIV Golf League host 14 events around the world, from Adelaide to Chicago, Andalucía to Singapore, as well as launch the game’s first Team franchises, captained by some of golf’s most decorated superstars.
The format, respecting the history and traditions of the game, has been optimized for modern day sports fans; 3-days, 54 holes, no cut, shotgun start, offering a faster pace-of play to drive engaging storylines and offer an immersive fan experience.
The events, each wholly owned and operated by LIV Golf and broadcast around the world to over 300million homes, deliver a family-friendly environment, festival-style atmosphere, evening concert entertainment and world-class competition; a combination that is unique to the world of golf.
In 2024, LIV Golf will further expand the reach of the League, splitting the schedule between some of the most iconic venues across Asia, Europe and the Middle East with decorated venues in the US. The full player pathway, created in partnership with the Asian Tour, also launches, with the game’s first ever player Promotion and Relegation, and Player Transfer Window, as the holistic integration of LIV Golf is fully delivered.
Away from the entertainment on the course, LIV Golf is dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of the communities it visits through its ground-breaking social impact and sustainability strategy, ‘Potential, Unleashed’, reflecting the league’s commitment to giving back and improving the world through golf.
Role Objective
As Events Finance Assistant your primary objective is to assist the Events Finance team with monthly and annually reporting per event. You will be improving the accuracy and confidence of our reporting, having the detail behind the numbers to back this up when asked and streamlining this data across all areas of spend and revenue for each event. The aim is for you to build the knowledge and experience to enable you to run one or two events of your own in the 2025 season, including travel to each of these events.
Responsibilities
- EMC (Event Management Company) payment tracking.
- Internal spend tracking, including putting actuals into a tracking file and helping run the file and the movements.
- Creating month end department presentation – including full season status for events, travel and TV Production, following the monthly actuals.
- Ticketing reconciliation – helping support the accounts team, particularly where to journal revenue to (event and ticket type).
- Closing events – reconciliation of invoices and queries.
- End to end invoicing raising post event for all other revenue and working with accounts receivable to ensure timely receipt.
- Travel budget tracking per event and per internal department against contractual obligations and then actual spend.
- Reconciling individual department travel for event and non-event travel against budget.
- Working with AP team where there are any corrections needed to invoices.
- Checking if invoices have been paid to notify the business that tickets can be issued and commissions can be paid.
Experience
- At least 1 years’ experience in a finance related role.
- Looking to study or have begun studying either ACA, CIMA or ACCA.
- Interested in a career in Sports and Finance.
- Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders across a multi-disciplined finance team.
- Strong business acumen and good level of commercial awareness.
- Good experience of Microsoft Excel .
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills.
- Keen to learn, looking for progression and completion of exams where needed.
- Ability to deal with multiple projects at once, many different stakeholders outside of finance and balance work around multiple time zones.
LIV Golf Investments is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on age, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeships. LIV Golf Investments makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
