Exec. Director, Incentives, Production Finance

3 weeks ago

Culver City, United States Sony Pictures Full time
The successful applicant will be responsible for providing high-level industry support of original content production, along with broader content creation through end-to-end management of Production Incentives for original owned productions. This role will have a high degree of interaction with the company's production finance and production accounting 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 incentives team, comprising of its people, systems and policies.

This individual should demonstrate a high aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, tax credits, production budgeting, and production accounting 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 in managing teams enterprise wide and 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 knowledge-based incentives compliance support.

Responsibilities:

• Develop deep partnerships with studio finance executives and production accounting teams to deliver on effective tools and systems for maximizing production incentives.

• Build out ''best in class'' production incentive management processes.

• Prepare initial applications in domestic jurisdictions and provide oversight and support for third party preparers in foreign territories.

• Coordinate and lead periodic meetings (kick-off calls, interim reviews, wrap calls, etc) with production accounting teams to ensure understanding of the rules, documentation, and compliance with production incentive rules and audit requirements.

• Perform budget and ledger coding reviews and production incentive estimates during the course of production.

• Document audit findings and create a feedback loop to improve production incentive forecasting.

• Prepare periodic reporting as required by corporate tax, accounting, and various internal stakeholders.

• Manage and track the incentive audit process across all jurisdictions, including submission of final audit materials on domestic projects.

• Research and maintain a knowledge base of all domestic and international production incentives.

• Participate in design and selection of tools for tracking and managing tax credit data and metrics.

• Coordinate with production accountants, estimators, government affairs, and finance on all tax and incentive matters facing our productions.

• Perform ad-hoc projects as required.

Technical Skills:

• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of Global Vista, Movie Magic Budgeting, PSL, and Smart Accounting products.

• Intermediate/Advanced experience with Excel and other Microsoft / Apple products.

Basic Qualifications:

• Education: BA/BS required (Finance, Quantitative Field or Accounting preferred.)

• Candidate must have 7+ years of film and/or television industry production finance or entertainment tax.

• Candidate must have 5+ years of experience with film and/or television production incentives.

• Willingness to travel (domestic and international) and work extended hours as needed.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong communication skills, written / verbal, and ability to interact with employees at all levels, including upper management.

• Robust understanding of production accounting and production incentive requirements.

• Proven ability to lead and manage.

• 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.

• Thrives 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. Reference: ECNJOBID-89-208-53-5 in the application

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