Jason Capone Email & Phone Number

New York

Support Controller and Events General Manager in large-scale live event accounting initiatives including staffing, venue transactions, partner charges and chargebacks, revenue, profit, and well as any administrative tasks, etc• Develop detailed Budget model that ties to high-level estimates• Create and process event invoices according to client agreements, record accountsreceivables, follow up on payments, and book journal entries in accordance with GAAP• Prepare and execute event settlements, reconciling expenses to estimates, ticket sales, andtaxes, in accordance with GAAP• Process accounts payables, reconcile against budget and manage risks and opportunities• Perform month-end close for events, including review GL activity, research variances,reclass miscoded items, post accruals, and cost allocations• Reconcile deferred revenue and AR balance sheet reconciliations and post-clearingentries monthly• Prepare cadence of reporting for interested stakeholders to maintain visibility of cashflow for event execution• Contract Compliance and Documentation: Provides guidance on internal contract policyto Account Teams, Event Management and/or Sales regarding requirements.• Work with event stakeholders to implement, manage and continue adoption of new eventmanagement platform including data integrity, accuracy, and completeness• Assist with ad-hoc projects as it relates to the greater accounting function• Accounts Receivables-Invoicing and collections.

Pop Tv

Manager and administrator for all company cards including pcards. Inherited function after manager departure with no training. Coded and closed all charges for the month end payment submission. 20 cards with a 200k company credit limit.• After completion of corporate merger was solely in charge of migrating pcard system from Wells Fargo to Bank of America. Training all cardholders how to use system and stay in compliance. Platform was migrated with no errors and employees were confident in new system.• Manage AP clerk and finance coordinator.• Administrator for the T&E system (Concur) including 220 employee set up and troubleshooting.• Manager and administrator for the BTA travel account including monthly coding of all aircharges and payment submissions.• Oversaw cash forecasting for a programming budget of $51MM year, completing a weeklyTreasury forecast for corporate, cash in and out and monitored daily bank exception report.• Acted as accounts payable requisitioner for 96% of company’s invoices, the main contact forvendors, maintained quarterly po and GR / IR clearing, monthly accruals and weekly check runswith an AP budget averaging $40MM per year.• Coordinate with Production offices to follow Pop policy and procedures for funding and showcompliance.• Track and submit payments for all contractual items (Overhead, Talent, License Fees,Acquisitions, Production funding).• Participate in month end, quarter and year end close. Submit gl entries, bank reconciliations,prepaids, monthly expense.• Worked closely with tax department for foreign vendor set up and possible tax payments for services rendered.• Ran expense historical for departments as needed and completed some budgeting.• Administrator/Processor for payroll for the freelance employees for 200 employees on bi-weekly cycles, all non-union, exempt and non-exempt, keeping up to date on CA Labor Law.

Managed the concert department including invoices, processes, collected and distributed final payments for all clients within motion picture, television, sports and product brand management for commercials and endorsements.• Contracted with all major, minor and independent studios to invoice and collect on all projects completed by ICM’s clients and processed monies received through a tracking system specific to ICM’s business practices(E-agent).• Deducted agencies commissions and any other fees or loans incurred and forwarded final payments to appropriate artists, personal agencies, managers and lawyers related to the talent.

Oversaw profit participation and royalties.

Key accountant for 9 animated show and managed all aspects of production accounting including union and nonunion payroll. Accountant for studio budget (overhead) for all operational costs resulting in a cost report that ran as a net zero.