
Senior Analyst, Production Finance
- Los Angeles, CA
- $35.50-47.12 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform production budget analyses, including cost comparisons and tax incentive estimations
- Monitor production spend and provide variance analyses and cost-saving recommendations
- Partner with internal Canadian entities and third-party production teams to ensure compliance with tax incentive requirements; maintain detailed and audit-ready records
- Track tax credits, deposits, and production-related receivables; maintain documentation to support incentive claims
- Create and present green light packages for new productions; ensure financial completeness
- Review cost reports and relay key insights to finance and production teams
- Coordinate with Production Executives on the status and timing of incentives and funding
- Reconcile funding and costs to ensure everything is tying back correctly to the cost report
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date data across all productions in the Production Finance database
- Prepare timely and accurate financial reporting, including production cash flows and status reports
- Collaborate cross-functionally with production, accounting, legal, and other departments on process improvements and deliverables
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in production accounting or finance
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of Word and PowerPoint
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to retain and organize information from meetings and calls
- Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams
- Demonstrated problem-solving abilities and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and adapting to evolving business needs
- Prior experience with episodic television finance or show-level accounting
- Familiarity with production finance systems and tools such as Anaplan, Intacct, Workday Financials, Concur, Intacct, PSL3, Vista, MediaWeb, MovieMagic, Notion, Chat GPT
- Proficient in building and maintaining complex business planning models