Coordinator, Contracts Administration

The Coordinator of Contracts Administration will report to the Director of Contracts Administration. This team sits within the Business Affairs department at Sony Pictures Animation.

The Business Affairs team negotiates deals for Sony Pictures Animation productions. The Contracts Administration team ensures the implementation of those deals. This team directly interacts with agents, lawyers, production executives, legal, artist management, human resources, finance, and other teams both internally and externally. We are seeking a highly organized candidate, with great attention to detail, and the ability to reprioritize in a fast-paced environment.

About Sony Pictures Animation:

Sony Pictures Animation is a pre-production animation studio based in Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles, California, that creates both feature animation and animated series with artists from around the world. We pride ourselves on empowering filmmakers to lead the creative process by allowing the hand of the artist to be truly felt, with the goal of producing bold and innovative visual storytelling.

This position will be hybrid in the Mid-Wilshire campus

Responsibilities:

• Calculate and process payments for series, feature, and development projects
• Read deal memos, pull deal points, and maintain and organize information in project spreadsheets
• Correspond with agents and other departments internally and externally to provide information on contracts
• Request, organize and review new hire start paperwork and tax documentation to ensure talent is onboarded correctly
• Assist Contract Administrator with data entry on various systems (Ariba, Darts, Excel) 
• Distribute and draft deal memos, amendments and new hire information
• Prepare, maintain, and distribute reports detailing key above-the-line production agreement provisions
• Aid and provide backup to Senior Business Affairs Coordinator
• Assist in preparing film residual packages
• Compose correspondence and mail payments
• Upload and download digital contract files

Skills:

• Experience with reading contracts
• Experience with administrative duties
• Legal background preferred
• Strong technical skills preferred
• Experience with making payments (Ariba, Fiori)
• Proficient in Excel and Google suite
• Must be good at prioritizing in a fast-paced environment

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.

To request an accommodation for purposes of participating in the hiring process, you may contact us at SPE_Accommodation_Assistance@spe.sony.com.