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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.• Ensuring all BBC policies and procedures are adhered to at all times whilst simultaneously minimising impact on production schedules.• Planning and monitoring staff development. Delivering and arranging appropriate training.• Developing and implementing new ways of working to ensure maximum efficiency and productivity.• Managing HR issues with a large and complex team.

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.• Reporting potential over and underspends to business at earliest opportunity and developing ways in which to resolve them.• Using systems such as Movie Magic, Moneypenny mydaEs, TPH Eclipse, Oracle PMI, SAP, Sage and Oracle.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Solihull, England, United Kingdom