Accountant II

Accountant II

A leading digital streaming network seeks an Accountant II to manage accounting functions for its content licensing contracts, including license fee analysis, month-end close, reconciliations, and reporting.

Accountant II Responsibilities:

• Analyze and report on content licensing agreements, interpreting and implementing license fee calculations and payment terms per contractual terms, track and report revenue share deals, and perform revenue review and analysis, including stagger, non-delivery, straight-line, renewal (back-to-back) license fees, and cash in advance.
• Complete the month-end and quarter-end close process, including revenue recognition, trial balance reconciliations, and journal entries for posting to the GL, perform monthly clearing account and cash reconciliations and quarterly bad debt analysis, and ensure SOX and all other key controls are adhered to and supported each month.
• Analyze and explain monthly foreign exchange variances and actual performance against forecast and plan, prepare present value analysis and reporting, inter/intracompany and related-party reporting, and ad hoc reports, and support internal and external GAAP and statutory audits.
• Review new contracts and change orders in the licensing subsystems to ensure the accuracy of financial information entered by Deal Management, review subsystem-generated accounting transactions each month, maintain Pay TV deals by updating monthly subscriber counts reported by clients and resolving issues, and work with IT to develop, test, and implement new Pay TV deals.
• Handle non-licensing accounting, including journal entries, reconciliation, and reporting for entitlements, reconciliation and reporting for non-theatrical revenue, and invoice creation, aging reconciliation, and reporting in a receivables subsystem.

Accountant II Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in a similar accounting role, including reconciliations and work with large volumes of data.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting.
• CPA is preferred.
• Strong general accounting background, including a solid understanding of debits and credits.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
• SAP general ledger and Oracle Fusion experience is preferred.
• Entertainment industry experience is preferred.

Shift:

• 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
• Overtime required during month-end and quarter close and at other times as needed, including one weekend day per quarter.