Senior Finance Analyst, UK TV Production
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Senior Finance Analyst, UK TV Production
Please note that this role is based in the United Kingdom. In order to enable us to meet statutory and regulatory obligations of the United Kingdom immigration system you must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom
General Summary
Our International TV Production Finance team based in London currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst who will support our UK joint venture and minority interest TV production companies.
Working closely with management within the local Production Companies, Home Office Finance, Capgemini and Accounting hubs this role will be a key point of contact for all the production accountants and wider production team in managing production costs to budget as well as supporting ongoing production and business operationally.
Covers production accounting support; planning support and companies support for all joint venture and minority interest companies, excellent communication and organisation skills are required as you will need to work effectively across the various companies and teams.
In the context of our UK television production business, you will have the following core responsibilities in this role:
Business & Operational Support
• Working with production accountants to regularly review costs managers in identifying any variances to budget and raise any concerns of risks of overages
• Working with Business Affairs team to ensure progress on agreements to be signed
• Manage the full audit process for all joint venture production companies to include full preparation of financial statements and be the main client contact for external auditors
• Support in the transition to our new outsourced finance partner, Capgemini
Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
• Prepare production cashflow forecast on regular basis to identify and raise any cash funding requirements
• Prepare and manage overhead budgets for production companies
• Support HoF in preparation and management of planning cycles i.e. MRP, Budget, Quarterly forecasts
• Manage planning cycles submission into BPC Analysis for Office system for all production companies
Process & Oversight
• Oversight of holding company, SPTP UK, including managing loan facilities with Left Bank and Minority Interest companies
• Oversight of finance reporting from the Capgemini team
• Working with OTC team to ensure billings raised in timely fashion in line with production agreements and any escalation issues dealt with promptly
• Working with production accountants and Capgemini team to ensure reconciliation of finance actuals with production accounting system and production cost managers
• Oversight of VAT returns reporting
Projects & Continuous Improvement
• Manage full wind down process of applicable production entities to dissolve company
• Manage participations reporting for out of scope companies
• Support any IT systems enhancements and implementations i.e. Access Dimensions, BPC
• Ad hoc project tasks as they may arise
Candidate Requirements:
Ideally you will have previous experience in Finance within an Entertainment environment. More specifically, you should meet many, if not all of the following requirements:
• Professional accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA)
• Effectively communicate across the Business and Finance organization with strong English oral and written skills and demonstrate a willingness to generate and share information.
• Possess a well organised and efficient approach combined with the capability to follow through work on own initiative to completion
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Possess the ability to influence at all levels and gain immediate creditability across the business
• Flexible approach as well as possessing the ability to cope well under pressure, multi-task, prioritise effectively and efficiently to ensure work is carried out accurately, in a timely manner
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and make administrative decisions based on a broad understanding of relevant policies and/or operational requirements, while also knowing when to escalate issues higher
• Establish and confidently cultivate positive working relationships internally across departments and externally
• Highly proficient and proven level of IT skills including Excel, Access Dimensions and SAP
• Knowledge of SAP
• Knowledge of current UK GAAP and US GAAP
Sony Pictures Entertainment is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures. No worker or potential worker will therefore receive less favourable treatment due to his or her race, age, creed, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, religion, gender, marital status or Trade Union membership (if applicable).
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