Financial Analyst - Production Finance
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Senior
Bachelor's
Tokyo, Japan
In Person
AccountingCost & Management Accounting
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or relevant professional experience in lieu of formal education.
- At least six years of progressive industry experience in production accounting or a studio production finance role.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret financial data and communicate insights effectively.
- Proficiency in financial software and tools such as Excel.
- Organizational and communication skills, with the ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Business-level written and spoken proficiency in Japanese and English.
Responsibilities
- Support Production Finance operations across multiple show productions in development, pre-production, production, and post-production.
- Collect, review, and validate monthly financial reporting, including cost reports, General Ledger, and Trial Balance, for multiple productions on a timely basis.
- Track and quantify shows’ financial performance against budget and projected cash flow needs, identifying data inaccuracies to maintain data integrity.
- Manage weekly cash flow and funding schedules for assigned projects in multiple currencies, ensuring cash flow reasonably tracks projected spend and adjusting schedules to support production activities while avoiding excess funding.
- Understand and articulate details and root causes relating to production and funding variances.
- Support the Production Finance team in scrutinizing production budgets and ensuring accurate cost control and forecasting throughout the production lifecycle.
- Gather data to accurately populate standard financial and operational reports, such as MBR and month-end reports, and deliver insights across multiple productions.
- Collect and communicate up-to-date information from financial reports, such as cost reports, to internal stakeholders.
- Understand policies, procedures, and control risks, and reinforce production accounting teams’ fiduciary responsibilities within existing Finance and Accounting Guidelines.
- Onboard local production accounting teams during pre-production to ensure compliance with Studio finance and accounting guidelines.
- Work closely with Senior Production Finance Executives to ensure compliant close-out of released wholly-owned and co-production titles.
- Track production tax incentive estimates and workflows to ensure the team receives up-to-date financial information.
- Identify gaps in information flow between internal and external stakeholders and propose solutions to standardize team workflows.
- Initiate change and improve reports and processes through automation or additional insights, with team support.
- Independently address process, policy, and procedure questions or issues arising during day-to-day accounting operations for assigned shows.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop efficient standard operating procedures for difficult tasks.
- Ensure compliance with the digital file management practices for productions and ensure all files are delivered at completion.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with budgeting and financial analysis for large-scale productions in the Japanese entertainment industry.
- Experience managing multi-currency cash flows and production funding.
- Knowledge of relevant Japanese financial regulations and entertainment industry standards.
- Proficiency in data visualization tools such as QuickSight and Tableau.
- Experience working with production service companies and third-party auditors.
- Familiarity with Amazon Studios production finance guidelines and processes.
About the company
Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
1994
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