Manager – Reporting & Analytics – Production Finance

Manager – Reporting & Analytics – Production Finance

Requirements

• Advanced experience with Excel and other Microsoft / Apple products.
• Intermediate/Advanced experience with Tableau/PowerBi/MicroStrategy VI tools.
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of Global Vista, Movie Magic, PSL, and Smart Accounting products.
• SAP experience required.
• Education: BA/BS required (Finance, Quantitative Field or Accounting preferred. CPA, MBA or JD/LLM, a plus)
• Candidate must have 5+ years of film and/or television industry production finance or entertainment tax, or management audit experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep partnerships with studio technology and research teams to deliver on major cross-functional measurements, testing, and modeling efforts with studio’s Data Warehouse.
• Build out a ‘best in class’ production data support models.
• Perform ledger coding compliance assessments during the course of production, as well as pre-audit reviews of the production’s general ledgers.
• Develop new data management techniques to improve production cost forecasting.
• Liaise with corporate tax, production audit, controllership, production and government relations teams to ensure proper compliance, including refreshing studio documentation and desktop procedures.
• Identify and leverage production financial and operations data to develop standardize metrics, data tools and methods to enhance production decision support.
• Research and become a subject matter expert all domestic and international production centers.
• Participate with Director of Tax Credits and Incentives for C&I planning, production metrics and production studies in support of future production planning initiatives.
• Coordinate with production accountants, estimators, finance and legal teams on all tax and incentive matters facing our productions.
• Maintain knowledge of current industry trends pertaining to television and film production.
• Develop and manage production accountant hiring/ recruiting database.
• Ensure that the SPT financial controllership and production policies and procedures are uniformly implemented operationally and that payroll/AP/Reporting are in accordance with standards established by SPT.
• Identify problem and/or issues as quickly as possible including breakdown in communication between departments, UPMs, producers and accountants.
• Maintain knowledge of current industry trends pertaining to union MOA updates, rate increases and compliance issues.
• Perform ad-hoc projects as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, written / verbal, and ability to interact with employees at all levels, including upper management.
• Robust understanding of payroll process, union labor agreements and tax requirements.
• Proven ability to lead and manage.
• Candidates are required to be highly analytical, as well as strong effective communicators.
• High aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem solving and analysis utilizing financial applications, including great Excel skills.
• He/she must thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a high level of academic curiosity, focus on generating results and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.