Financial Analyst, Film Finance

**What we’re about**

IMAX is not your everyday entertainment experience, so it’s not surprising that IMAX employees and their careers go beyond the ordinary. Our employees share a passion for quality in everything they do. Our Hollywood people are movie business insiders with years of production experience. Our technology experts are unashamedly geeky - people who can talk for hours, and be riveting, about color gamut and lasers. Our business people are consummate sales and marketing professionals who are spreading the IMAX word around the world.

We offer all the benefits you’d expect from a company with over 50 years of history. Yet, beyond this, we know everyone works differently and is motivated by different things. That’s why we offer competitive pay and a wide assortment of benefits - to help you make the most of your life at work and away from it.

As the world’s leading entertainment technology company, IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies. Specializing in immersive motion picture technologies, our employees are driven by a passion to take audiences around the world to places they’ve only dreamed of.

Come explore IMAX - where innovation, creativity and passion come together.

**Required Skills**:
Based out of the Playa Vista (PV) office, the Film Finance Analyst will work closely with the Manager of Film Finance and the Canadian Finance team to support the Film Finance function. This role will be an important financial partner to the Marketing, Legal and Distribution teams located in the PV office.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Assist in the accounting and reporting for IMAX’s film development, production and distribution activities, as well as provide financial and operational analysis for management decision making.
- Responsible for studio invoicing
- Prepare and enter all journal entries relating to areas of responsibility including film revenues, cost accruals, re-bills, film depreciation
- Prepare account reconciliations on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis supported by appropriate documentation and audit trail.
- Review Legal contracts and ensure terms are translated into SAP for documentary and alternative content films
- Work with SAP Master data team to ensure Film project elements, Film Assets and Film customer master data is up to date
- Coordinate with internal departments (i.e. IMAX Post Production, Film Distribution, Marketing, global Film Finance, Legal) within IMAX to obtain required and timely information relating to areas of responsibility.
- Coordinate requirements for month/quarter/annual statements to film sponsors along with payment proposals
- Contribute to a quality month-end close cycle by delivering timely, accurate and useful financial data for IMAX Corporation as well as ad hoc analysis as requested by management.
- Assist with internal internal/external audit requests
- Assistance with special projects and continuous process improvements

**What we’re looking for**:

- CPA or working towards designation preferred
- **Minimum of 3 years of experience** in a Financial Analyst and/or Corporate Accounting role, in a large/multinational organization and public company environment
- Degree in Business Administration or the equivalent
- Proficiency in accounting, and ability to learn new accounting processes quickly. Strong understanding of US GAAP is an asset.
- Strong computer skills and proficiency in MS Excel and accounting ERPs such as SAP and BPC
- Excellent organizational skills
- Highly efficient and detail-oriented
- Ability to stay focused to meet
- Accountability - Takes personal responsibility for outcomes and makes decisions based on sound judgment.
- Analytical Thinking - Ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach. Approaches a complex task or problem by breaking it down into its component parts and considering each part in detail. Weighs the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success, in making a decision.
- Collaborative Relationships Building skills - Ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the company, who can provide information, assistance, and support.
- Client/Customer focus - Build excellent relationships with clients (including internal), displays a broad understanding of IMAX's business
- Detail and quality focus - Attentive to detail and accuracy committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, Monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
- Excellent communication skills - Understands the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, skilled in facilitation, leading meetings, gathering input, providing praise and recognition, inspiring presenter.
- Organization skills - Ability to prioritize, multi
- task and manage increasing demands
- Results Oriented Focus - Strong drive to meet or exceed goals and plans; consistently achieves objectives, delivers high quality