Production Accounting:

• Setting up SPV companies with Companies House and HMRC.
• Creating portals for shared documentation needed for cash forecasting and setting up the templates needed during production.
• Reviewing budgets with production teams and making recommendations for finalisation.
• Generating cashflow forecasts based on schedules, contracts, funding and tax obligations.
• Processing supplier invoices, expenses and petty cash and reconciling against floats and purchase orders.
• Managing cashflow as the production progresses; reviewing payment schedules and terms.
• Monitoring expenditure to limit deviation from budget and cash flow forecasts and flag problems if they arise.
• Review and execute payment runs for freelance suppliers and payroll employees.
• Liaise with production accountants working on the film set to make sure information is accurate and in line with coding and budget.
• Holding meetings with producers and line managers to ensure accuracy of the accounts and correct allocations.
• Discussing estimates to complete and variance analysis with production team.
• Ensuring withholding tax for foreign entertainers is appropriately dealt with with HMRC.
• Filing of VAT returns in timely manner and complying with HMRC for inspections.
• Reference HMRC guidelines for treatments for tax and PAYE to ensure compliance at all times.
• Analysing the cost reports to help enable production managers to make informed decisions.
• Mapping cost reports to preferred accounting software.
• Inputting realistic accruals and year end adjustments for the statutory accounts.
• Calculate the creative tax credit claim based on opinion letters, discussions with production managers and analysis of the general ledgers.
• Finalise statutory accounts and corporation tax returns in conjunction with creative tax credit calculations and BFI certificates.
• Collaborate with external accountants and create audit packs for the final audits of the production.
• Consolidate projects and cost managers to meet corporate accounting needs.
• Manage accounts for multiple types of productions with budgets from £60k – £4m; including films and documentaries.

Corporate Accounting:

• Bookkeeping to trial balance level; reconciling balance sheet accounts, managing billing, liquidity reporting, data entry, processing inter-company transactions, multi currency experience; processing supplier payments and payroll.
• Statutory accounts and corporation tax returns for SMEs; producing schedules, entering journals, drafting accounts.
• Management accounting; monthly & quarterly for high turnover small-medium sized businesses.
• Budget planning; creating budgets based on actual data and profit targets.
• Solid experience in multi project structured companies and configuring accounts to group format.
• Managing a team of  accounts assistants; allocation of workloads, reviewing work, bookkeeping training.
• Working with a variety of types of clients; actors, agencies, producers, media specialists, directors, editors, sports agencies, production companies.
• Use of multiple accounting software on a daily basis; Sage 50, Sage Instant, Quickbooks (desktop and online), Xero, Clear Books, Taxcalc, Agent File, Microsoft Office suite.
• Client liaison and problem solving; tidying accounts from external sources, analysis reports as per client requests, assisting with tax and accounting queries.