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Exec. Director, Incentives, Production Finance
1 month ago
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
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