Production Finance Manager

This is a Full Time Job

DESCRIPTION:

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing high-level industry support of original content production, along with broader content creation through the development of our financial accounting and reporting process for original owned productions. This role will have a high degree of interaction with the company's finance leadership, production, and executive teams.

The candidate must be hands-on, entrepreneurial, passionate about content and physical production, quick-thinking, elastic, able to pivot when necessary, systematic, has impeccable ethics, and is able to juggle multiple and diverse projects with a strong emphasis on organization and an unwavering attention to detail. The candidate will execute on a vision to develop a world-class production finance operations team, comprising its people, systems, and policies.

This individual should demonstrate a high aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, tax credit, financial systems, and labor/union foundational knowledge. You will be a part of a dynamic and creative SPT Production Finance team working directly with our production business units. The successful candidate will be a strategic partner to management teams enterprise-wide. The candidate should be extremely comfortable counseling business partners and influencing them towards decisions that have a valued business impact. The successful candidate will work closely with freelance accountants during the course of production to provide compliance support.

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 standardized metrics, data tools, and methods to enhance production decision support.
• Research and become a subject matter expert on 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 problems and/or issues as quickly as possible, including breakdowns 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.

Technical Skills

• 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.

Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS required (Finance, Quantitative Field, or Accounting preferred. CPA, MBA, or JD/LLM, a plus).