This position will direct the financial reporting, analysis and decision support of the Production Services business unit. This includes preparing or reviewing and analyzing departmental financial reports, projections, budgets, forecasts and investment proposals. Production Services includes Set Lighting & Grip, Stage Facilities Sales and Back-lot Production Support departments. The position reports directly to the EVP of Finance for the Studio Group and as such requires the candidate to interface with senior management on a daily basis.
Primary financial support of all Set Lighting & Grip, Facilities Sales and Production Support departments, currently comprised of 18 departments with approx. $100 million in annual revenues.
Partners directly with the SVP of Studio Operations and provides continuous and daily financial support for all the SVP’s financial planning, analysis, decision support advice and ad-hoc reporting needs.
Reviews and oversees preparation of the annual operating budgets, quarterly forecasts and monthly projections for all the departments.
Oversees the monthly close process: Reviews monthly projection and accrual information to ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness of monthly income statements. Analyzes results against budget/forecast to explain variances and present performance to senior management
Responsible for continuous improvements in the budget/forecast process to ensure operating assumptions are properly factored into financial plans and variances minimized, where possible. This includes verification of labor, headcount and capital/depreciation.
Responsible for the completeness, timeliness and accuracy of all special purpose management reports including new deal multipliers, production deal post mortems, stage yield analyses and weekly bar-chart sales forecasts.
Determine group KPI’s to manage business, determine areas to streamline, identify inefficiencies and improve overall profitability.
Maintains the groups reporting frameworks and tools; works cross-functionally with various business partners to determine and further develop their analytics needs.
Responsible for long-range strategic plans, forecasts and initiatives for the business unit including identification and analysis of business growth opportunities and investments.
Responsible for business unit capital investment planning, financial justification, presentation to senior management for approval and post mortem results confirmation.
Manages all reporting to executive management, including weekly revenue forecasts, monthly performance results and quarterly budget/estimate presentations.
Maintains excellent working relationships with operational business partners and other finance staff to facilitate accurate and timely reporting of issues and results.
Supervises a finance team including Manager and SFA of Production Services Finance.
Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years’ financial analysis experience, with strong departmental budgeting, revenue and cost modeling and job costing skills in an entertainment service, real estate and/or facilities environment.
Excellent analytical skills and a familiarity with financial planning concepts are necessary.
Requires strong time management and organizational skills, attention to detail and experience managing staff.
Additional Qualifications
Must be proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and corporate accounting systems in general (mainframe, SAP, job costing systems, etc), Hyperion a plus.
Excellent oral and written communication skills are necessary to effectively communicate with all levels of Company personnel and outside parties
Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required, MBA preferred
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