The WONDER Project

We are excited to introduce The WONDER Project, a transformative new media company for the global faith and values audience.. The Director of Production Finance will support our continuously growing slate on a day-to-day basis and provide consistency for our internal and external partners.. Liaise with corporate tax, production audit, controllership, production and government relations teams to ensure proper compliance, including refreshing studio documentation and procedures.. Maintain knowledge of current industry trends pertaining to television and film production.. Working knowledge of union financial guidelines including: Teamsters, DGA, WGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE

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About The WONDER Project We are excited to introduce The WONDER Project, a transformative new media company for the global faith and values audience. We understand the profound impact that stories have on our lives, and our purpose is to tell stories that restore faith in things worth believing in that will endure for generations. Guided by the principles of courage, collaboration, excellence and service, we strive to see the world through different perspectives, recognizing that empathy fosters understanding and unity. We are looking for motivated team members who are passionate about their craft and hungry to make a meaningful impact through their work. On our team, we value creativity, curiosity, kindness and a bias towards action. Those with a desire for growth, experience and opportunity who can excel in a dynamic and lean organization will fit right in. We welcome you to join us on this journey, where our work is a testament to our unwavering commitment to restoring faith in things worth believing in. About the Role:The Director of Production Finance will support our continuously growing slate on a day-to-day basis and provide consistency for our internal and external partners. This role will work closely with cross-functional partners and lead all production finance efforts with a focus on high-quality advance cost planning and protection from financial exposure through production oversight and controls. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing high-level industry support of original content production, along with broader content creation through development of our financial accounting and reporting process for original owned productions. This role will have a high degree of interaction with the company's finance leadership, production and executive teams. The candidate must be hands-on, entrepreneurial, passionate about content and physical production, quick-thinking, able to pivot when necessary, systematic, impeccable ethics, and able to juggle multiple and diverse projects with a strong emphasis on organization and an unwavering attention to detail. The candidate will execute on a vision to develop a world class production finance operations team, composed of people, systems and policies. This individual should demonstrate a high aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, tax incentives management (including relationship management), financial systems and labor/union foundational knowledge. The successful candidate will be a strategic partner to management teams enterprise wide. He/she should be extremely comfortable counseling business partners and influencing them towards decisions that have a valued business impact. The individual will work closely with freelance accountants during the course of production to provide compliance support. Day to Day:<ul><li>Drive and own high-quality results on cost estimation and analysis.</li><li>Implement best practices of financial control and cash management.</li><li>Analyze and review cost reports and budgets for tracking throughout the life-cycle of a production, including communication with third-party production companies on eventual variances to inform internal cross-functional teams with updates.</li><li>Guarantee accuracy and timeliness in financial reporting, including regular quality checks and managing deadlines for information submissions from production units. </li><li>Constantly seek opportunities to improve the overall financial reporting and analytics process. </li><li>Stay abreast of industry trends and technological advancements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and the value of financial insights provided.</li><li>Build out a ''best in class'' production data support model.</li><li>Liaise with corporate tax, production audit, controllership, production and government relations teams to ensure proper compliance, including refreshing studio documentation and procedures.</li><li>Identify and leverage production financial and operations data to develop standardize metrics, data tools and methods to enhance production decision support.</li><li>Subject matter expert at all domestic and international production centers.</li><li>Coordinate with production accountants, estimators, finance and legal teams on all tax and incentive matters facing our productions</li><li>Maintain knowledge of current industry trends pertaining to television and film production.</li><li>Develop and manage a production accountant hiring/ recruiting database.</li><li>Ensure that financial controllership and production policies and procedures are uniformly implemented operationally and that payroll/AP/Reporting are in accordance with standards established by the company.</li><li>Support projects pertaining to union updates, rate increases and compliance issues.</li></ul> What you bring to the table:<ul><li>Self-motivated, highly organized, detail and project oriented work ethic</li><li>Willing to keep production oriented hours</li><li>Expert in Excel and Google Sheets. Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Outlook and Google Docs </li><li>Working knowledge of union financial guidelines including: Teamsters, DGA, WGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE</li><li>Excellent grasp of both theatrical film and episodic TV budget patterns and forecasting</li><li>Exceptional attention to detail and ability to organize large amounts of data across multiple productions</li><li>Capacity to think creatively and be self-motivated to find solutions to current problems and future potential issues</li><li>High level of intrinsic motivation and solution-oriented with a bias for action</li></ul> Salary & BenefitsSalary + Bonus Range: $150,000-$225,000Equity participation in management option pool (Series A company) Benefits, FSA, 401k The WONDER Project, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws. In addition, The WONDER Project, Inc. will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. The WONDER Project, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and federal law.

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