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.• Reconciliation of multiple G/L account balances to calculate appropriate participation adjustments• Prepared ad hoc analyses to support business decisions in sales and finance.• Currently converting existing statement preparation process to participation and residuals information system (PARIS)

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.• Reconciliation of multiple G/L account balances to calculate appropriate participation adjustments.• Conducted ad-hoc financial research and analyses for both internal and external customers partnered with internal business units to examine and analyze discrepancies and errors in financial data.

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 decision on payment processing and managing reimbursements and petty cash.• 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.• Prepare for financial audit and coordinate the audit process.• Oversee accurate and appropriate recording and analysis of revenues and expenses.• Continuous management and support of budget and forecast activities.• Collect and analyze financial information to recommend or develop efficient use of resources and procedures, provide strategic recommendations and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.

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.