Director, Participations and Residuals

This is a Full Time Job

The Director, Participations and Residuals is primarily responsible for ensuring that all contractual obligations to Miramax's participants on its over 700 title existing library, and any new acquisitions, are met as required, and ensuring that residuals are paid on a timely basis. Miramax views participants as partners and as such the Participations Manager must ensure that:
-Miramax's participation statements (approximately 750 per year) are delivered according to our contractual obligations;
-Participant questions are dealt with on a timely basis; and
-Audits are scheduled and conducted on a timely basis.
The Director, Participations and Residuals will also be responsible for the activities of a Senior Analyst, and one or two Analysts. The Director must work closely with others within finance, as well as with other departments including including information system and legal. In the short term, the Director, Participations and Residuals will work on various systems implementation and upgrade projects.

Detailed Job Description
Responsibilities of the Director, Participations and Residuals include:
-Ensure collaboration and information sharing among all team members, within and outside of Participations, to ensure that all issues are effectively dealt with.
-Setting up participation processes and controls to ensure Miramax meets all contractual obligations with accurate, complete and reliable participation data. Identifying areas where process and systems improvement are required.
-Tracking and delivering on a schedule of participant statements; managing workflow to ensure contractual deadlines can be met.
-Ensuring all participation and residuals payments are made on a timely basis.

The experience and qualifications for the Participations and Residuals Director includes:
-10+ years experience working in a participations / residuals capacity at a company that has a significant number of participants with complex deals.
-Experience in managing the workflow of a participations group, including setting processes and timing that will allow for timely delivery of a high volume of high-quality participation statements.
-Team player.
-Excellent Excel skills.
-Systems experience, including pulling information from accounting systems in addition to a participation system. The ideal candidate will have experience with SAP or another ERP system, as well as in participations systems.
-Proactive approach to work, attention to detail, initiative and enthusiasm.