Christopher Michel Email & Phone Number

Culver City, CA

• Responsible for the contractual reporting to talent and co-production companies on all of Sony Pictures Classics films, television and media libraries.
• Worked with Legal and BA to ensure the reporting obligations for contractual agreements met participation statement criteria and residual obligations.
• Read, understand and create abstracts from talent, and investor agreements.
• Coordinate with Strategic Planning, FP&A, and Business & Legal Affairs teams during quarterly planning resets to update ultimate models with the most current forecasts and adjustments to deal structures post-release.
• Ensured contractual obligations are met on a timely basis to be in alignment with contractual reporting obligations.
• Analyze incoming data from Third Parties, Unions and Guilds.

Culver City, CA

• Conduct analysis, prepare and interpret various high-profile profit participation statements and financial models in compliance with Contract distribution agreements, amendments, and/ or extensions.
• Analyze contractual agreements and create abstracts for all Sony Pictures Classics films.
• Facilitate monthly close process as it relates to Participations (account reconciliations, balance sweeps, transfers, liabilities, journal entry, review and posting, accruals, various close schedules).
• Build and update Participation Ultimate financial models for Sony Pictures Classics.
• Reconcile and analyze payment history to departmental database and against ultimate’s projections.
• Analyze incoming data from Third Parties, Unions and Guilds.

Sherman Oaks, CA

• Compile and analyze financial information to prepare financial statements including monthly and annual accounts.
• Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures.
• Accurate recording of a daily transactions using specialized company specific Excel spreadsheets. Functions included keeping accurate purchase order logs, recording vendor invoices, and liaising with accounts payable.
• Prepared weekly cost reports and attended executive-level management budgets meetings.
• Work Closely with Producer to manage show budgets.
• Monthly general ledger reconciliations for multiple shows. Discrepancies resolved by proposing correcting journals entries.

Culver City, CA

• Responsible for the financial reporting process for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
• Prepare and analyze participation and royalty statements.
• Research and documentation of accounting entries.
• Responsible for the timely preparation of artist and copyright royalty expense analyses.
• Reconcile royalty balance sheet accounts and explain significant balance fluctuations on a timely basis.
• Assist in the performance of royalty projects and ad hoc analyses, as needed.

Century City, CA

• Audited Hotel revenue and performed daily reconciliation of accounts.
• Created and recorded G/L journals entries, reconciled depository accounts, and participated in month-end and year-end closing process.
• Developed and ran activity reporting, created a daily report that showed if where the Hotel stood financially and determined if analysis was needed.
• Assisted A/P with matching, batching, and coding invoices, as well as the check runs.
• Supported the overall operations of accounting, with reconciliation of accounts receivable, accounts payable check list and all G/L and bank reconciliations daily.
• Oversaw the process of payroll, to submit the corporate offices for final process weekly.