Accounting Clerk

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

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Job Description

Role Summary/Purpose:

The Production Finance Accounting Clerk supports the SVP Production Finance and liaises with film productions. The position deals with highly confidential financial and proprietary information and interacts with all levels of the Studio including Senior Management, Physical Production, Post-Production, VFX, Tax, Development, Business Affairs, Legal and other business units of the Company.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Prepare pre-production payroll and production prep period accounting documents
• Manage production funding and payments, Assist in forecasting production funding
• Reconcile cash actuals for Production Finance for submission to the FP&A group
• Update production incentive forecast and analysis for various projects
• Assist in the gathering and submission of tax documents necessary for vendor setup and proper tax reporting.
• Establish foreign exchange spreadsheets, estimate FX currency gain/loss, coordinate forward currency purchases with Treasury
• Typical accounting clerk duties including accounts payables, journal entries, expense reports, distribution of confidential financial documents
• Provide administrative support to the SVP Production Finance
• Establish new film accounting office set up, Interface with all production accounting offices, track equipment and access to studio systems
• Serve as Studio point of contact for questions from production regarding company policies and procedures
• Serve as a back-up for more sophisticated functions in the absence of the more senior Finance executives that it supports

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic and high-volume administrative role within the entertainment industry, with some analytical responsibilities
• Must be excellent and proficient with PC and Microsoft Office software is mandatory, including PowerPoint
• Candidates must be motivated, extremely organized and detail oriented, have excellent communication and organizational skills
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality for highly sensitive materials and details is key
• Strong follow through and able to anticipate issues before they arise
• Ability to multitask and juggle many competing priorities efficiently
• Excellent critical thinking skills

Eligibility Requirements:

• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV through nbcunicareers.com to be considered
• Must be willing submit to a background investigation
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be willing to join the Local 174 Union
• Required On-Site: This position is required to be performed full-time from an NBCUniversal-designated worksite.

Desired Characteristics:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Previous Production Experience (television or film) preferred. Knowledge of any industry specific accounting or scheduling programs a plus.

Salary range: $28.883 (hourly)

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Lo