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Prestigious Global Media Firm Seeks an Accounts Payable Director

*Reporting to the North American Controller

*Supervising a staff of 5

*Responsible for managing all activities in Accounts Payable for both U.S. and Internationally

*Execute weekly vendor disbursement cycles including (ACH/EFT, wire, check)

*Manages Concur Invoice System administrator

*Oversees tax-related processes tied to vendor payments for both the US and Globally

*Oversee and Improve Accounts Payable Policies & Procedures

*Procurement

*Vendor Management

Qualifications:

*10+ years Accounts Payable Management experience in a global organization

*Strong supervisory/leadership skills

*Experience with Concur & Lawson Systems a big plus

*Expertise in domestic and international currency invoice processing

*Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Related Degree

*Media, Advertising or Entertainment Experience a Big Plus

Base Salary 135k Plus Bonus & Profit Sharing. Tremendous Benefits, Quality of Life & Opportunity for Growth. Hybrid Schedule.

Atlantic Group

Our client, a well known American Toy Manufacture and Entertainment company is urgently looking to hire an Accountant to join their team on a HYBRID Schedule in East Aurora, NY!

*This is a 6+ month contract with possible extension/conversion on a W2 offering full benefits package *

This position is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day functions for General Ledger to ensure the efficient, timely and accurate processing of accounting transactions

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting related field
• CPA is preferred
• 3+ years of relevant experience in General ledger, financial reporting, audit related roles
• Experience working in a Global Shared Services Operating Model is preferred
• Experience working with a Business Processing Outsourcing environment is preferred
• History of driving change through innovation and standardization
• Experience with transition management
• Experience utilizing major Enterprise Resource Management System, Hyperion Financial
• Management, Cognos reporting tools; Oracle Financials a plus

What you will be doing

• Monthly financial closes; journals entry prep/review/approvals, reporting, analysis, US GAAP adherence, etc.
• Quarterly and year-end financial closes. Reviewing schedules and forms that are due throughout the year for accuracy. Working with internal and external auditors to get them the information they require.
• Working on special projects as required in the general ledger area (e.g. intercompany, company reorganizations, changes associated with other systems). Pursuing continuous process improvements including identifying and implementing those improvements.
• Work closely with the Business Process Outsourcing team, ensuring cultural alignment to Mattel vision and values – building a consistent and aligned Team (One team mentality)
• Support/Input the development of end state vision for the R2R (Record to Report) organization – inclusive of Global processes, standards, and efficiencies to create target operating model
• Effectively manages and prioritizes strategic initiatives across organization in support of target operating model

Motion Recruitment

Our client, a large broadcast media company is urgently looking to hire an Accounts Payable Senior Manager to join their team in New York City

** This will be a 3 month contract with the potential to extend or convert FTE after**

Required Skills & Experience:

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance or related field and 7+ years’ experience in P2P environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver a high degree of customer service.

• Experience with and knowledge of financial controls, with varied experience in P2P areas.

• Experience in the entertainment industry preferred.

Desired Experience

• CPA or MBA desirable

• Lean Six Sigma certification (e.g. green belt, black belt, master black belt or other) desirable

• Strong self-starter, able to consistently deliver without requiring significant oversight and direction.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interface with all levels of management and customers.

• Advanced Customer Service Skills.

• Demonstrated the ability to work as part of a team, and a clear understanding of how assigned responsibilities impact other processes and the work of other people.

• Previous experience working with remote teams, international experience a considerable plus.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Maintain working knowledge of the industry in addition to the Accounts Payable control framework and processes.

• Understand all aspects of the Accounts Payable function including vendor relations, vendor master data maintenance, invoice processing, disbursements, vendor reconciliations, aged AP items, Help Desk and PCard process.

• Work closely with Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider in monitoring service delivery via process metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

• Resolve or advance issues that come through the Accounts Payable Helpdesk.

• Work with vendors, finance teams, and internal customers to resolve Accounts Payable issues.

Continuous Improvements

• Develop documentation on projects.

• Provide recommendations to the Global P2P Global Process Owner (GPO) on process improvement and technology opportunities and operationalize on standardization initiatives.

• Provide input to the Globalize, Standardize and Centralize Roadmap by partnering with the Global P2P GPO and the Financial Systems Strategy Group (FSSG). The roadmap is a multi-year plan that includes ongoing process standardization, simplification and automation opportunities which drive year over year efficiency improvements.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future

Motion Recruitment

Hours M-F or Tuesday-Sat hours are flexible with candidates.

This is a fun and exciting role that relies heavily on communication, attention to detail, organization, and lots of creativity. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated team player who can develop long-term beneficial relationships for the Club.

• Being the main point of contact and working with event hosts and planners through telephone, digital communication, and in-person meetings from the date of contract signing through the event date.

Coordination both social/corporate banquets for members and non-members, as well as club events for membership.

• Communicating with clients and internal teams in a timely and efficient manner, including working in tandem with internal departments such as Culinary, Food & Beverage Operations, Amenities (i.e. Golf, Tennis, Pool, etc.), and Club Ownership.

• Maintaining Banquet Event Orders (BEOs) in Clubessentials (sales/banquets software) and event diagrams in AllSeated (floor plan software).

• Coordinating menus, tastings, and all other event details.

• Working closely with Seawane’s preferred vendors on décor, entertainment, and other services and rentals, maintaining as well as establishing new preferred vendor relationships.

• Leading weekly BEO meetings and day-of event checks with the operations and culinary teams, as well as occasionally attending functions to meet hosts and oversee the start of an event on a case-by-case basis, ensuring everything is as expected and adjusting as needed.

• Creating new event experiences for membership to drive event participation for all age groups and interests.

Other duties as assigned Specific skills, abilities and qualifications of the Event Coordination Director include but are not limited to:

• Strong organizational skills and high-level of attention to detail.

• Must be able to work in a high pace environment balancing many different tasks.

• Have a high-energy and outgoing personality with professional presence and appearance.

• Quickly problem solve while maintaining composure with guests.

• Being a diplomatic team player who can foster relationships with members, guests, staff, and vendors.

• Professional and responsive communication to all members, clients, and staff.

• Networking inside and outside the Club to build relationships with new and existing clients.

• Maintaining and updating accurate files.

• Strong computer skills including use of programs such as Microsoft Office (Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Excel), Banquet Sales Software, and Floor Plan Programs.

• Ability to learn, comprehend, and effectively use software systems.

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Phaxis

The Finance Shared Services Operations Director will report to the Global Head of Finance Shared Services Operation to lead and manage day- to-day activities of key functions (AP, Vendor Management, AR, T&E, Treasury Operations, Research Services, Travel Services) in addition to its ongoing transformation agenda..

Role And Responsibilities

• Oversees all aspects of day-to-day activities and deliverables of the Shared Services Operations function, encompassing:
• Accounts Payable (AP): administration of invoices (approximately 65 thousand annually), expense allocation approvals, processing of vendor payments, development of reporting, and delivery of annual tax documentation (1099/1042) to vendors.
• Accounts Receivable (AR): issuance of billing statements and invoices (over $300 million annually) to hundreds of funds and portfolio companies for reimbursement of payments made by the management company on their behalf, record cash received, drive resolution of charge issues, management of quarterly fund confirmation process, reporting, and preparation of reconciliation work papers.
• Travel& Entertainment (T&E): review and processing of expense report submissions (over 10,000 annually) for content and completeness, ensuring compliance with policy and IRS, central coordinator for review and decision on out-of-policy and no provision expenses, development and delivery of training and communication on T&E expense matters.
• Treasury Operations: administration and execution of cash and custody trade wire transactions (approximately $100B annually) for the management company and funds, execution of pay cycles for AP and T&E payments, open and closure of bank accounts, administration of access to banking portals, maintenance of investor wire instructions, and resolution of overdraft, unapplied cash and return wire issues.
• Vendor Management: Oversee policy, process, procedures and reporting for vendor engagement and management. Assist business/ relationship owners with overall engagement and monitoring of vendors. Central point of contact with RedKnot for the administration of VendorRisk application, creation of vendor profiles, and initiation and review of risk assessments and due diligence.
• Travel Services: Manage global travel program. Analyze travel behavior data to identify trends and potential savings opportunities across air, hotel and car vendors. Manage all vendors: Travel Leaders, Summitqwest, Delta, American, and Concur. Oversee private jets, including processing requests, approvals, and invoicing. Curate hotel programs internationally, negotiating rates and city caps. Sourcing new vendors through research and conference to further develop global travel program.
• Research Services: Primary liaison for all market data vendors, conducting contract negotiations/renewals, advanced benchmarking, and peer-analysis reports. Ensure approvals or facilitate renewals/additions/cancellations of new hire market data requests and offer user assistance (product trials, training, etc.). Interact with departmental management to generate data usage and allocation reports. Manage the MSDL team by verifying and ensuring the integrity of data for invoices. Generate reports for the MDS team review.
• Lead the long-term agenda to transform the firm’s platforms (Procure to Pay, Kyriba treasury operations- platform) through assessing solutions and implementing by collaborating with global and cross-functional stakeholders.
• This role represents and outstanding opportunity for an exceptional individual to join one of the world’s leading organizations within the global asset management industry.

Dimensions HRD Consultants

The Studio at Situation Group crafts award-winning work for the world’s leading entertainment, education and mission-driven brands. The Studio seeks a Senior Producer & Editor to join a new field production crew dedicated to our Broadway, arts and entertainment clients. This role will report to the Director of Video and Events Development and is a full-time role of 40+ hours per week within our Manhattan office and the local NYC field.

The selected candidate will be a true Producer and Video Editor hybrid with creative and logistical producing chops, motion design and animation skills, and an affinity for writing and working within the Broadway live entertainment space.

What You’ll Do

The Senior Producer & Editor will lead a 2-3 person field production crew, managing and working with a dedicated camera operator to craft, shoot and edit fast-turnaround video creative. The ideal candidate is nimble, thrives in creating news-style content and knows how to make the most out of a media opportunity. The field production crew is a subset of the Video and Events department and will work alongside producers, editors, project managers, copywriters, designers, creative directors and account service staff.

Sample Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Manage Camera Operator in the field and the office
• Handle logistics for field video production, such as scheduling, resourcing, equipment, location scouting, permits, shot lists, call sheets, signage and release forms
• Manage capture and crew on-set, working with clients, talent and celebrities
• Facilitate red carpet and on-the-fly interviews
• Estimate project costs and track budgets
• Concept and write interview questions and other writing assignments
• Oversee copy and design tasks in the Studio
• Edit, animate, and handle post-production for short and long-form digital, social and broadcast use
• Color correct and mix audio for digital/social content
• Manage file transfers and media
• Conduct research and gather knowledge relevant to our clients

Requirements

• 8+ years of similar experience at a creative agency, studio, TV network or
• film industry (including 4+ years of editing and animation)
• 2+ years experience managing direct reports
• Expert knowledge of video production processes, production equipment and industry trends
• On-set experience producing shoots and interviewing/directing talent
• Demonstrated writing ability with a journalistic lean
• Advanced understanding and use of Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Color correction, grading and audio mixing skills
• Excellent organization, time management and attention to detail
• Exemplary communication and problem-solving skills
• Full understanding of digital, social and broadcast output specifications
• Ability to manage multiple clients and projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to work odd hours at short notice (nights and weekends) and occasional overtime
• Bonus skills include SAG-AFTRA and/or AFM knowledge, Broadway and/or livestream experience
• Work samples/reel required for consideration

Benefits

We offer a competitive base salary and a range of benefits and perks:

• Salary range: $95,000 – $115,000, commensurate with experience
• Health care plan (medical, dental and vision)
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off package that includes vacation, sick, “life happens” days, birthdays, and public holidays
• Paid family leave
• Cold brew coffee, snacks and fresh fruit
• Wellness resources
• Special access to New York City’s arts and entertainment scene

We have been honored for our commitment to our team with workplace awards from Crain’s, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune.

Our Company

The Studio at Situation Group crafts award-winning work for leading entertainment, education and mission-driven brands—WICKED on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, Columbia University, and No Kid Hungry.

The Studio is part of Situation Group, a digital-first collective of award-winning advertising agencies.

Studio at Situation Group

Position Summary:

**MUST BE WILLING TO GO ONSITE IN NYC 3 DAYS/WEEK**

QA Engineer Manager

Contract

New York, New York (On-site/Hybrid)

We are seeking an individual to work with a Fortune 50 Broadcast Media & Entertainment leader located in New York, New York. As the QA Manager, you will be responsible to help the video engineering team build & manage systems that deliver all content on a new streaming application, including 24/7 linear streams and live events. In this position, you will also be responsible for ensuring timeliness of QA deliverables, making enhancing and debugging fixes, as well as communicate with stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely and collaboratively with stakeholders to understand new features and initiatives
• Break down functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, and present them to the team in planning sessions
• Predict potential problems, identify edge cases and outline key risks or issues together with the team and ensure they are communicated to the Engineering Managers
• Documenting features or initiatives through API documentation, sequence diagrams or feature documentation
• Prepare and facilitate pre-planning/planning sessions with the team for weekly iterations, based on the priorities on our product roadmap
• Understand how the Ad delivery works with other Peacock components and contribute to ensuring these integrations are both resilient and reliable
• Facilitate estimation sessions with the team to obtain high level roadmap estimates
• Be a constant source of product information and direction for the team
• Support the team in delivering high impact, high quality work that is built with focus on optimal user experience

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and demonstrable experience working with highly collaborative software engineering teams
• Experience working with BDD, writing detailed user stories and supporting acceptance criteria
• Hands on experience defining and documenting technical requirements and translating them into user stories/accompanying documentation
• Ability to communicate effectively and explain complex problems in a simple way
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Enjoy collaborating with others, both inside and outside the team
• Understanding of deadlines, constraints and scope of delivery and experience working with the business partners to ensure the right balance between these are met, setting expectations and handling risks early
• Ability to integrate into a large agile development project and manage rapid development cycles
• Understanding of the basics of video streaming technologies and ad insertion
• Interest in promoting an inclusive team culture where engineers of diverse backgrounds can grow
• Committed to quality in every assignment, large or small

Brooksource

We are seeking an individual to work with a Fortune 50 Broadcast Media & Entertainment leader located in New York, New York. As the Experimentation Manager, you will be directly responsible for being the experimentation leader for Advertisements. In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner with Ads, product, engineering, and other experts to shape a shared experimentation playbook to enable trustworthy personalization and visualizations for consumers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of applied experience in Ads experimentation at an eCommerce, social network, direct-to-consumer, media entertainment company or similar tech company
• SQL coding experience is required
• Experience in both running A/B tests and overseeing them
• Experience with experiment design and platforms (i.e., in house built, Optimizely, split.io, etc.)
• Extensive knowledge of statistics and analytical concepts
• Coding skills for analytics and data analysis (Python, R, SQL)
• Experience in using data to drive product decisions and change opinions
• Direct experience working with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Utilize excellent communication skills to clearly distill the essence of your technical work to audiences of all levels and across multiple functional areas

Responsibilities:

• Work with Ads, Product, Decision Science, UX and Engineering to lay out a comprehensive experimentation playbook and roadmap
• Manage an experimentation platform roadmap that supports stakeholder goals and advanced the experimentation practice
• Develop an end-to-end experimentation process that is deeply integrated with Ads, product, and engineering development lifecycle
• Translate insights into Ads and product strategy to empower execution in a data-informed manner
• Deeply understand the ecosystem, defining and analyzing metrics that evaluate the trajectory and inform the success of products
• Communicate insights, vision and strategy with executive leadership and key stakeholders
• Present research on statistics, experimentation, revenue impact, ads impact, user behavior, product enhancements, and metrics development/methodology of all levels of the company ensuring transparency and partnership
• Foster a culture of execution excellence and analytical rigor

What’s in it for you?

• Working for a well-known, globally leading Media Streaming organization
• Exposure to high-level business professionals in a variety of departments and geographic locations
• Opportunity to work and grow your career in fast-paced environment

Brooksource

Role: Linear TV Buying Coordinator

Location: New York, United States

Work Pattern: Hybrid

Reports to: Senior Manager of TV and Radio Buying

About Us

We are creators and champions of the best British TV, and hosts to the world’s largest collection. It’s our mission to bring the most engaging and relevant British TV experience to fans like us all around the world.

We’re relentlessly creative and in this new world of content, where the possibilities are endless, we are charting our own course.

We are thriving in 5 markets already around the world and have ambitious plans ahead of us. This is where you come in…. we are on the lookout for talented individuals to join our BritBoxer family and help us to navigate the adventures ahead.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Manager of TV and Radio Buying, this person will support the planning, buying, management, trafficking and reporting of linear television advertising for BritBox campaigns in the US and Canada.

The ideal candidate will be highly detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about television – both traditional broadcast and cable advertising as well as CTV advertising. They are driven to help a brand like BritBox break through the noise by leveraging smart advertising tactics to drive brand awareness – and ultimately sign ups. They will have direct experience working to support large-scale linear TV campaigns.

They will be comfortable working in a fast-paced, KPI-driven environment and thrive when making a big impact on a small team. They aren’t afraid to set a high bar for themselves and to work among a team of high performers.

Responsibilities

• Confirming orders with stations/networks, checking contracts against orders
• Gathering pre-logs and post-logs, cross comparing to schedules and resolving discrepancies
• Coordinating creative delivery and approval, including ISCI codes, between Creative team, tagging/trafficking partner, and networks; issue traffic instructions for networks
• Entering logs for undetected networks and reconcile any tracking issues
• Working with Finance to set up new vendors, gather and reconcile invoices, and reinvest under-cleared media
• Internal monthly and quarterly reporting of TV performance
• Supporting in the development of Linear TV buying strategy

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience working in Linear TV advertising, ideally at an agency for large clients
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
• Experience with trafficking/buying/inventory systems like MediaOcean, Core or WideOrbit is a plus
• Experience in entertainment industry or with subscription-based clients gets extra bonus points. Experience with other forms of traditional advertising, such as radio or out-of-home, is also a plus.

Skills and Personal Attributes

• Extremely detail-oriented and organized, able to manage complex processes at a high volume.
• Fast learner of new tech platforms; extremely comfortable manipulating data across a variety of systems.
• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment, with an excitement to learn and grow as part of a small team of media buying experts.
• Strong planning skills and the ability to prioritize a large workload according to ever-changing business needs.
• Superb work ethic and positive, can-do attitude.
• Interest in the evolving TV advertising landscape – across cable and broadcast TV to addressable TV and connected TV.
• Fans of British TV are a plus!

Salary Range: $50-60K base salary + competitive benefits + bonus potential

Please note that the salary range is intended to give as an indicator of the salaries that could be attributed to the breadth or experience for a given role. All candidates will be measured based on their level of experience.

This job spec is not exhaustive and may change from time to time in line with the evolving nature of a dynamic and growing business. As part of a relatively small team it will be important for the incoming person to be a self-starter, happy to pick up tasks and projects that may not fall directly in their remit and be prepared to get involved in anything and everything.

BritBox International

Enterprise Sales Media and Entertainment Technical & Services Experience. Must have experience in selling complex SaaS to enterprise accounts in Media & Entertainment sector, in a closing role.

• 5+ years of selling into Enterprise / multi-buyer accounts with a track record of success. Familiarity and comfort selling across stakeholders at multiple levels in an organization, communicating well with everyone from the business champion to the product user to the C-level executive

• Proven hunter who has consistently met or beaten quota. Will have a ruthless focus on results – pipeline generation, revenue, and forecast accuracy, with the ability to lead and inspire others in your ecosystem

• Maintaining a very clean view into current quarter and future quarter opportunities and forecast

• Must understand the technology landscape in media industry, especially in the post production department for OTT, Networks, Studios and Station groups. Strong understanding of content supply chain from production through distribution

• Work closely with the technical team to provide client feedback and help identify areas for improvement

• Can confidently and persuasively tell a compelling story and own the room

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to develop and run long-term account plans

• Comfortable in a startup environment that moves at a fast pace, with a direct, open, and honest culture. You’re motivated by results, not by your ego

• Naturally inquisitive and driven to dig deeper. You do the research and know how to uncover opportunities others miss

• Team player and can work with our teams to find efficient paths to successful and profitable customers

• Have the drive and personal accountability to own your results

• Is motivated by overcoming challenges and pushing yourself harder when faced with adversity

• Ability to travel roughly 50 % of the time

• Ideal candidate is near New York, NY to interface directly with our clients. 

• BA/BS degree or equivalent

Salary budget $125 to $150k base plus commissions

Prime Focus Technologies