.ABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM:TelevisaUnivision is looking for a Director, Production Finance to join our team!This role will support our Streaming Service business and is an integral part of the Finance team for managing our original productions.
We are seeking a leader with a variety of soft skills, industry knowledge, and a strong contributor to the business.This position reports to the Vice President, Streaming Finance - Production.ABOUT YOU:You are a highly motivated individual who enjoys working in a team environment, has outstanding analytical, accounting, organizational and communication skills.
You must be a creative thinker, a self-starter, and a collaborator willing to learn and share ideas.YOUR DAY-DAY:- Preparation of monthly executive-level presentation materials for finance reviews with President of Ad Sales, including analysis and tracking of expense and revenue-related risks & opportunities.- Works with VP, Production Finance, and team on Streaming business content portfolio- Establish and execute on a vision to develop a world class production finance team, including its systems implementation, policy, and procedures.- Be a strategic partner to executive management, content and production leaders, and studio in LATAM.- Protecting company assets through cash management, policies, and procedures- Collaborative as a cross functional partner with our legal and content team on third party contracts- Effectively manage production portfolio cost forecasting and operational cash flow to support the business needs in accordance with financial accounting policy, audit, and transactional support.- Manage and perform month-end close process, signing-off on trial balance and monthly Management Financial Package including variance explanations.- Ensure reconciliations between production accounting, Costs Reports and Oracle are accurate.- Perform production market comparative and trend analysis and present key metrics, benchmark, and dashboards.- Communicate and manage production budgets, cost reports, trial balances and petty cash reconciliations prepared by third party producers.
Work with show accountants on a day-to-day basis to drive accurate, complete, and timely cost reporting, protecting, and managing show assets and supporting production.- Implement new technologies that provide the next generation of production finance tools and determine how and when to best incorporate into the production accounting workflow.- Manage production incentive and VAT workflow to ensure receipt of tax credits or cash.YOU HAVE:- Master's or bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.- +10 years of experience in a production finance (any content type, experience in Fiction, Unscripted, Alternative, and International Features and Series)- Leadership experience and managing teams motivated by passion to exceed expectations and to continuously improve yourself, the team, and the department.- Exercise sound judgement and solution focused