Senior Financial Analyst

Sony Pictures Imageworks is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are committed to respecting traditional lands, and working with communities towards reconciliation.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services, and technologies.

SPE’s Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) is an Academy Award®-winning visual effects and animation studio known for photoreal live-action visual effects, dynamic creature and character animation and full-CG features. SPI is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montreal, Quebec, with an additional office near the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. SPI is a unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.

The Sony Pictures Imageworks Finance team is seeking a hard-working Senior Financial Analyst who can work towards the bigger goals of the organization while having the ability to maintain focus on the inner workings of day-to-day operations. This is an exciting Finance role that combines finance and production/operational functions with focus on financial analyses. If you are tech savvy, drive innovation, are interested in production, and have strong interpersonal skills we would like to meet you!

Benefits per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable

Finance Responsibilities and Duties:

• Consolidate, analyze, and summarize the monthly financial results for the Company against Forecast/Budget with variance explanations to present to Senior Management:
  • Consolidated income statement
  • Gross Profit by project summary
  • Summary Overhead SG&A, Production SG&A, and detailed headcount report
  • Systems, Development, Procs & Disks detail by project and recoupment analysis
• Track and review overhead spend and ensure all production costs are charged to projects
• Assist with production tax credit audits and work closely with SPI’s People and Organization (P&O) team on the British Columbia, Quebec, and Ontario Residency Tracking tool and perform stress tests to ensure the best production tax credit results
• Conduct regular vendor assessment and review of studio production spend for tax credit eligibility in Canada (Quebec). This entails regular quarterly review meetings with tax consultants
• Provide recommendation(s) to ensure the studio is prepped for the best tax credit claim submission

Production Support and Analysis:

• Manage ongoing production capital investment projects, including studio builds in all locations
• Provide project management/accounting support to SPI Technology team for various ongoing technology initiatives, including compile and track capital investment actuals against Budget/Forecast
• Prepare monthly Overhead project reporting and Artist GAP time analysis across all cost centres
• Support SPI with artist labour tracking and analysis against projects
• Prepare and review production journal entries for reclassification of expenses, weekly production fees, and general month-end project related journal entries
• Prepare monthly sales and use tax reporting submission to corporate tax
• Assist with ad hoc presentation decks and special projects

Production Project Accounting and Systems Data Maintenance:

• Perform weekly update of artist ratecards as well as ad hoc ratecard analysis as needed by production
• Review monthly Vancouver payroll register to ensure accurate and timely payroll postings to projects
• Update and maintain various SAP labour and rate tables, including correcting weekly payroll errors
• Become the expert with internal labour tracking systems (UKG and Timekeeper), including providing labour tracking reports and troubleshooting timecard errors to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Maintain WBS project listing for US and Canada and other data tables
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to local Payroll Administrator
• This position entails ongoing daily communication with various productions, SPE finance, technology, legal, tax, P&O, payroll contacts, and other 3rd party contacts
• Run ad hod analyses and reporting for leadership as needed

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA preferred
• 7+ years of relevant accounting/finance experience (project accounting preferred)
• Excellent organization and problem-solving skills, thrives in a fast-paced environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, acute attention to detail
• Effective communicator - adept at writing, facilitating, and presenting analyses to executive leadership and cross-functional teams
• Possess a “can-do” attitude for all situations, no task too big or too small, is a great teammate that possesses the ability to collaborate and flex to a variety of styles and approaches
• Think outside the box & challenge status quo when required by highlighting new trends, improving existing processes or are open to sourcing those ideas from others
• A strong comfort level with analyzing large datasets and drawing meaningful conclusions/results that contribute to the business
• Strong follow-through on all projects; ability to bring projects to timely completion
• Advanced MS Excel/PowerPoint preferred

We value unique perspectives, and want diverse, unique talent to work with us. We encourage candidates from all identities to apply.

The anticipated base salary for this position is $37.50-$53.80/hr CAD. Benefits are per company policy: which include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.