Assistant Production Accountant
Job Summary
Job Description
- 5+ years payroll accounting experience
- EP Smart Accounting & Excel proficiency
- Union pay requirements knowledge
- Strong communication & organization skills
- Animation industry experience
- Knowledge of animation process
4 skills required
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Process e-file paperwork and maintain files accurately and timely
- Support Payroll Manager with weekly EP Payroll processing and posting
- Manage show to show crew transfers with Human Resources and other team members with staffing profile changes
- Assist with onboarding crew members from other shows or new hires
- Accounts Payable; including Vendor setup in Smart Accounting and online wire transfers
- Help reconcile monthly credit card statements and show Cashet System
- Maintain monthly journal entries (non-union payroll, banking, and studio paid costs)
- Comply with all procedures for Invoices, Checks, and Timecard approvals
- Elevate problems to Production Accountants when necessary
- Provide Production Accountants with possible solutions to problems presented including proactively identifying possible job efficiencies
- Process billbacks
- Work within the corporate accounting system (Intacct) to book entries and reconciliation
- Consistently, professionally, clearly, concisely, timely, and accurately communicate with Production Accountants, Vendors, Casting, Human Resources, Payroll, and Production employees
- Collaborate with Skydance Animation Finance team on ad hoc assignments
- Maintain confidentiality and security of payroll data
Qualifications
- 5 years of payroll accounting experience
- Experience with Entertainment Partners (system)
- Comfortable working in Excel and EP Smart Accounting
- Knowledge of animation process and/or animation industry experience
- Working knowledge of union pay requirements (e.g., Local 839, Local 700, SAG)
- Highly organized, flexible, team player
- Strong communication skills
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About The Company
About Skydance Media
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, LIFE, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Star Trek Beyond, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and True Grit. Skydance’s upcoming film releases include Top Gun: Maverick, Gemini Man, The Old Guard, 6 Underground and the nwe untitled Terminator film. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games. Skydance Interactive recently debuted its first original title – Archangel, a story-driven VR shooter.
About Skydance Interactive
Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games. The division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive’s first VR offering is Archangel, launched on July 18th 2017. Skydance Interactive in 2017 partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of The Walking Dead universe. The Walking Dead VR game will be the inaugural co-developed title from both companies. The studio is located in Marina del Rey, CA.
About Animation
In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance’s first three animated features are Luck, Split (working title), and Powerless (working title). Luck, directed by Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger, is a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affects our daily lives. Split, directed by Vicky Jenson (Shrek) and written by Linda Woolverton, tells the story of Elian, a teenager who comes of age using her magical powers to defend her family when the opposing forces of light and darkness threaten to divide her kingdom. Nathan Greno (Tangled) is set to direct Powerless. The studio is located in Los Angeles, CA.
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