Leanne Orme Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, GB

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Heading up the Finance department embedded within a Northern based Independent Television Production company.
• Managing and consolidating a large portfolio of productions, company overheads, salaries, and production development.
• Monitoring, reporting and analysing overall EBITDA on a £15m turnover business, alongside performance against various annual targets.
• Implementing a new Finance System (PMI) and consolidating processes utilising in-house Group facilities for more efficient ways of working.
• Managing a team of freelance Production Accountants / Assistant Accountants.
• Producing and analysing production budgets to fit editorial specifications, liaising with production teams and monitoring potential performance against target performance.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Managing a large team of 15-30 staff and freelance Production Accountants and Assistants.
• Resourcing them across a number of different productions and genres; utilising and developing their skills in the best way possible.
• Supervising high-risk drama and SPV productions; challenging forecasts to test accuracy, visiting locations/studios regularly to monitor productions, liaising regularly with Production Executives.
• Analysing and approving production budgets; collaborating with production teams, corporate finance, external auditors and business affairs teams to ensure accuracy and maximum “money on screen”.
• Overseeing internal and external production audits.
• Assessing and submitting tax credit applications.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Managing finances on productions across a range of genres (Children’s, Drama, Comedy, SPV, and Fact/Ent) with a wide variety of budgets (from £500k - £15m).
• Assisting in budget development; utilising production knowledge and expertise to ensure accuracy and obtain competitive deals.
• Monitoring and analysing actual and committed production spend and using this to accurately forecast for the full production life-cycle.
• Maintaining highly detailed and accurate cashflow forecasts.
• Liaising daily with production teams, corporate finance, talent rights and business affairs.
• Running cast and crew payroll, accounts payable, petty cash, credit cards, chart of accounts, and bank accounts.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Solihull, England, United Kingdom