ESC has an exciting opportunity for an Entertainment Financial Analyst working fully onsite in Culver City, CA to support our premier clients’ Entertainment Studio team. The ideal candidate will have experience in the entertainment industry, with expertise in Finance or Accounts Payable (AP) as this role will be heavily focused on customer facing AP (payment) workflows. This is a 9-month contract position that provides valuable exposure to the finance side of the entertainment industry.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage talent (payee) onboarding for all deals in development by leveraging clients’ AP platforms to collect payment information for writers, directors, producers, and rights holders ahead of payment.
- Maintain and develop key AP process workflows with an emphasis on improving process controllership and efficiency
- Work with internal Development stakeholders such as Creative, Business Affairs, and Legal to track new deals closing across the Movie/TV development slates and assist with setting up payment schedules in the Payment Scheduler System (PSS) aligning with deal terms
- Field ad-hoc inquiries from talent/reps and coordinate with the Studios AP (FinOps) Support team to troubleshoot development payment/onboarding issues
- Manage payment metric (Quicksight) dashboards to reinforce financial controllership and provide visibility to various internal business partners
- Produce Development Cost Reports from PSS data for Production Finance (for Greenlit titles) and for Legal (projects abandoned/In Turnaround)
Qualifications:
- At least 1-2 years’ experience providing AP services
- Experience in AP Systems
- Strong understanding of accounts payable
- Financial reporting experience(dashboarding)
- Knowledge of contracts & agreements
Preferred: