The Role
Job Title: Financial Analyst – Venue & Production Cost Budgeting & Forecasting
(Salary range: USD 75,000 - 80,000)
Company Overview
DanceOne is the industry leader in live events, dance conventions, and large-scale touring productions. We partner with hundreds of venues annually and execute complex, high-volume productions that require best-in-class financial planning, tight cost controls, and consistent forecasting accuracy. We are seeking a Financial Analyst who will own budgeting, forecasting, and financial oversight for venue and production costs across our nationwide event portfolio.
Position Summary
The Financial Analyst – Venue & Production Cost Budgeting & Forecasting will be responsible for building and maintaining event-level budgets, analyzing venue and production contracts, forecasting cash needs, and partnering with Operations, Production, and Venue teams to ensure cost discipline and financial accuracy.
This role sits within FP&A and is directly responsible for enhancing financial visibility into event profitability, production margins, and cash flow timing associated with live event execution.Key Responsibilities
Budgeting & Forecasting (Primary Focus)
Required
Live events require precise cost control and forecasting discipline. This position plays a critical role in ensuring DanceOne maximizes event profitability, avoids budget overruns, and maintains financial clarity across hundreds of venue and production engagements each year.
(Salary range: USD 75,000 - 80,000)
Company Overview
DanceOne is the industry leader in live events, dance conventions, and large-scale touring productions. We partner with hundreds of venues annually and execute complex, high-volume productions that require best-in-class financial planning, tight cost controls, and consistent forecasting accuracy. We are seeking a Financial Analyst who will own budgeting, forecasting, and financial oversight for venue and production costs across our nationwide event portfolio.
Position Summary
The Financial Analyst – Venue & Production Cost Budgeting & Forecasting will be responsible for building and maintaining event-level budgets, analyzing venue and production contracts, forecasting cash needs, and partnering with Operations, Production, and Venue teams to ensure cost discipline and financial accuracy.
This role sits within FP&A and is directly responsible for enhancing financial visibility into event profitability, production margins, and cash flow timing associated with live event execution.Key Responsibilities
Budgeting & Forecasting (Primary Focus)
- Build event-level budgets for venue rental, A/V, staging, labor, freight, décor, security, hotel blocks, F&B minimums, and other production-related costs.
- Forecast event-level and portfolio-level venue & production spend by week, month, and season.
- Maintain forecasting models ensuring accurate timing of payments and accruals.
- Develop annual budget inputs in partnership with Event Planning, Production Management, and Finance leadership.
- Incorporate historical comps, contractual terms, and trends to improve forecasting accuracy.
- Review venue, production, and supplier contracts to identify:
- rental rates, discounts, rebates
- labor obligations (union and non-union)
- service charges, minimums, and penalties
- cancellation/attrition clauses
- Summarize key financial terms and provide decision-ready insights to leadership.
- Validate that vendor/venue invoices match contractual terms.
- Track all venue and production invoices against approved budgets.
- Own actual-vs-budget reporting at the event, brand, and portfolio level.
- Build and maintain dashboards for event cost performance, highlighting drivers of variance.
- Partner with Accounting to support timely accruals and month-end close for venue/production costs.
- Forecast cash outflows related to venue deposits, production advances, and supplier payments.
- Build monthly and seasonal cash flow projections for Production & Venue spend.
- Partner with vendors and venues to align on payment schedules and ensure timely disbursement.
- Prepare and deliver recurring financial reports for senior leadership.
- Produce executive-level presentations summarizing cost trends, risk areas, and recommendations.
- Conduct scenario analysis to support decisions on event routing, venue selection, and production investments.
- Recommend improvements to budgeting templates, forecasting logic, and reporting tools.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities across vendors, venues, and production workflows.
- Support development of standardized financial playbooks for venue and production management.
- Support special projects such as pricing analysis, production cost benchmarking, and vendor evaluation.
- Conduct deep-dive financial studies on cost categories, margin impacts, or operational efficiency.
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 2–4+ years of experience in FP&A, event finance, production finance, or cost analysis.
- Strong financial modeling skills (Excel required; FP&A tools preferred).
- Experience analyzing contracts and converting terms into budgets and forecasts.
- Ability to interpret complex financial data with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally.
- Proven ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced live-event or entertainment environment.
- Experience in the live-event, touring, entertainment, venue operations, or production industries.
- Knowledge of NetSuite, Ramp, or similar ERP/finance systems.
- Experience with Planful or similar FP&A tools
- Prior experience in budgeting for labor-intensive and variable-cost environments.
- Familiarity with union labor rules, production schedules, and venue cost structures.
- High analytical rigor
- Strong financial judgment
- Ability to partner with operators
- Problem-solving mindset
- Commitment to accuracy and continuous improvement
- Ability to translate numbers into actionable recommendations
Live events require precise cost control and forecasting discipline. This position plays a critical role in ensuring DanceOne maximizes event profitability, avoids budget overruns, and maintains financial clarity across hundreds of venue and production engagements each year.
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The Company
What We Do
DanceOne is the largest holding company of dance brands in the world. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, DanceOne brings together leaders in the dance community around their shared mission of fostering the integrity and education of dance. Its collection of over 500 yearly elite dance conventions and events, including Jump, Nuvo, 24Seven The Dance Awards, and Star Dance Alliance’s Starpower, Dreammaker and more, provides the highest level of talent to teach and mentor while leading the industry in innovations that shape the future of dance instruction. With over 60 years of combined experience serving over 10,000 dance studios yearly, DanceOne’s highest priority is the commitment to ensure a safe environment for kids to learn and celebrate movement by providing the highest possible safeguarding standards in the industry. For more information, visit dance.one.
