Senior Accountant, Global Studios Content Accounting

The Senior Accountant, Global Studios Content Accounting supports by title reporting and film cost accounting within the Global Studios Content Accounting team. The team is responsible for global by title accounting and reporting accuracy and completeness of content costs across all Warner Bros. studios feature film and television content, including amortisation of capitalised film costs, participations, and residuals for produced, acquired, co-financed, or distributed content.

• Support day-to-day general accounting and reporting activities.
• Prepare various reports to support internal and external reporting needs.
• Review participation and residuals statements and prepare accrual true ups analysis.
• Review capitalised film costs and prepare necessary journal entries.
• Prepare audit and SOX documentation.
• Prepare various monthly journal entries and accruals, including capitalised film costs, amortisation, hedge gain/loss, cap interest, impairments, etc.
• Prepare capitalised film costs schedules and participations and residuals liability balance schedules.
• Prepare P&L, footnotes, B/S flux, and other supplemental schedules as required.
• Make recommendations on process improvements and standardisation to gain greater efficiency and effectiveness within the finance organisation.
• Undertake other special projects as required.

• 3+ years previous work experience in an accounting or finance field.
• Highly motivated, analytical, proactive, and self-sufficient.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with people on all levels, in person, via email or other digital format and on the telephone.
• Must have the ability to pay close attention to detail and understand written and oral instructions.
• Must have the ability to organise and schedule work effectively.
• Must have the ability to multi-task projects simultaneously and be able to prioritise.
• Must be able to adapt in a changing environment and quickly learn new concepts, solve problems and implement solutions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Excel.
• Must be able to work reasonable overtime, if necessary.
• BA/BS degree in Finance or Accounting required.
• Must be fluent or near fluent in English.

• CPA or MBA equivalent strongly preferred.
• Experience working with large amounts of data preferred.
• Experience with SAP is a plus.
• Working in shared service and/or outsourcing environment a plus.
• Previous “Big 4” accounting experience preferred.

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