Manager, Tax Incentives Post Production Finance

• Work with Producers and Controllers to update and track production incentives.

• Update finance and production colleagues on Production/VFX/Post incentives.

• Reviewing tagging of Production budgets per jurisdictional guidelines.

• Manage forecasting, tracking, reporting, and recoupment of worldwide Film production incentives.                               

• Coordinate with the Production Finance Executive and Budgeting to integrate incentive-specific requirements into the Production Finance Policy & Procedure Manual.                              

• Facilitate direct acquisition of necessary reports/documents for incentive applications from vendors.                             

• Ensure all show related information, including tax incentive estimates, are accurately reported and maintained in the Production Finance reporting database.

• Oversee incentive audits, as well as tracking and collection of incentives.

• Manage quarterly studio reporting deliverables.

• Manage with Production Finance Executive EFCs related to tax credits.

• Partner with the Production Finance Execs and Production Tax team on status and timing of tax incentives, review tax incentive estimates and analyze changes for reasonableness.

• Manage special projects and ad-hoc reports as needed.

Post Production Finance -

• Collaborate with various internal departments to establish policies for incentivizing back-end payments by the Studio, including the tracking and estimating of those incentives.

• Coordinate and review audit requests related to year-end production entity tax filings.

• Compile periodic jurisdiction-specific reports on production/vendor spend.

• Identify process improvement opportunities with focus on driving efficiency, transparency and collaboration across the studio. 

• Manage special projects and ad-hoc reports as needed. 

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Feature Film post-production accounting and finance required 

• Bachelors of Science in Finance or Accounting

• 4+ years of finance and accounting experience with 2 years of direct production finance experience

• Knowledge of union/guild agreements

• Knowledge of domestic and international tax incentives

• Acute attention to detail; ability to effectively review the work of others and develop a system to catch errors

• Ability to anticipate and think ahead

• Advanced problem-solving skills; often can see a simple solution to complex problems

• Team player who maintains a high level of professionalism when working with colleagues and other studio partners

• Strong organizational skills; ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage priority changes

• Passionate about entertainment industry and production finance/accounting

• Experience working with production accounting software, such as PSL, Global Vista and Smart Accounting