Sr Director, Production Accounting - Studio Multi-Platform Productions

Job Description

Studio Multi-Platform Productions is an internal production team passionate about providing comprehensive production management and post-production services to brand creative and marketing groups. Studio specializes in producing a wide variety of content including promos, image campaigns, still photography (key art, gallery, press), digital series, linear extension, tentpole events, social, behind the scenes, integrated marketing, show opens, corporate, and consumer product marketing.

The Production Accountant will have a good amount of production experience and be a self-starter, motivated, quick thinking, flexible and detailed. This is a demanding and fast paced environment requiring a proactive and positive thinking person who exercises good judgment, shows initiative and is a great teammate. This person should be able to balance multiple finance responsibilities and projects with a laser focus on organization and attention to detail while being flexible and capable of prioritizing shifting priorities. This person must possess the ability to anticipate, address and bring attention to production challenges before a negative impact. They must also e a continuous promoter and supporter of a multi-cultural diverse workplace, transparency and calculated risk taking.
• Support Producers, LP's, PM's, Coordinators with all financial activities through implementation of various financial processes.
• Track and manage re-classing and cross brand support through intercompany transfers
• A/P Processing
• Approval Verification
• Receipt and Invoice Reconciliation
• Accounts Payable resolution support for vendors
• Work closely with GBS and/or production finance lead for urgent payments requests and guiding time sensitive financial matters.
• Handle issuance of managers checks.
• Coordinate group payroll process/collection and edits
• Support in P-Card management, petty cash, coding and reconciling
• Look across projects and bring awareness to equalize rate/fee disparity, eg. Still photographer rates and recommend fee/rate framework for those key creative positions
• Maintain master Showbiz Budgeting templates for production staff and associated GL codes
• Institute the best production finance practices from estimate to actual
• Be a central payroll point and problem solver with EP payroll
• Facilitate vendor setup within ARIBA system and Submit/Confirm PO's and invoices
• Guide paperwork process including payroll for crew, talent, and freelancers
• Assist, education and build process for production staff in actualizing of budgets (PO logs, crew payroll logs, PC logs, etc.)
• Guide and educate T&E reconciliations for p-cards and corporate cards
• Field inquiries from vendors regarding invoices, payments, and/or vendor setup.
• Maintain financial data points on team's shared drive and in Wrike (project management program)
• Fulfill other financial duties and tasks as requested by VP, SVP, SFPG.

Basic Requirements:
• 5+ years' experience in Production Finance and Payroll or similar experience

Additional Requirements
• Lead Production Accounting experience in commercials/promos preferred
• Able to respond and work after business hours on productions and/or attend to urgent and timely issues
• Maintain confidential information
• Proficiency in MS Office, excel, and become proficient with Wrike, Showbiz Budgeting, SAP, ARIBA, Concur, Smart Start/Time/Accounting
• This is NOT a union position
• Ability to work in a high-pressure and fast-paced environment
• Professional, self-motivated, goal-oriented with a ''can do'' mentality

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxq224-18-119-253-93-42 in your application.