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Glendale, CA

• Oversaw production finance related aspects of all original animation television productions, from budgeting through production, post production, and wrap.
• Worked closely with producers to develop budgets and production schedules.
• Created bi-weekly cost reports, employee staffing profiles, and estimated final cost changes.
• Approved all production disbursements, managed cash flows, billed internal business units and external production partners.
• Reconciled production cost reports to corporate finance ledger.
• Worked closely with business affairs department regarding contractual payments with production partners and above the line agreements for staff employees.

• Managed all finance related aspects of up to five original reality-based television productions at any given time, from budgeting through production, post production, and wrap.
• Oversaw all production disbursements, managed cash flows, billed external production partners, and tracked production related accounts receivables.
• Provided close support to production accounting manager, and took on additional duties in times of overflow.
• Presented production cost report variance analysis to studio line producers, EICs, and SVP of production.
• Oversaw payroll of approximately 150 staff and freelance employees, and tracked accrued vacation time.
• Performed monthly adjusting journal entries and charge backs to corporate overhead accounts.

• Oversaw all finance related aspects of up to six original animation productions at any given time, from budgeting through production, post production, and wrap.
• Supplied production cost report variance analysis to studio line producers, VPs, and studio GM.
• Compiled monthly cash flow analysis of production disbursements for corporate reporting.
• Oversaw all production disbursements including funding of overseas studios.
• Worked extensively with legal department and interpreted all production related contracts.
• Performed monthly adjusting journal entries and charge backs to corporate overhead accounts.

• Oversaw all development and production disbursements related to original pictures and series.
• Created production cash flows, funded productions.
• Reviewed cost reports and reconciled production books with internal records.
• Acted as liaison with legal department and analyzed contracts for projects in development.
• Tracked development spending and projected spending for future commitments.
• Extensive cash management and analysis of both development and production costs.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies

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