Job Description

High-Level Overview

• Skybound Entertainment is hiring a Finance Manager, Production, Project & Revenue Reporting to lead budgeting, cost reporting, and financial modeling across TV, film, and video game projects.
• This hybrid role requires on-site presence 1–2 times per month .
• Ideal candidates have 7+ years of experience in production finance or entertainment accounting , with deep expertise in ultimates modeling, cost reporting, and royalty/participation structures.
• Strong Excel skills and experience collaborating with Legal, Production, and Accounting teams are essential.
• Salary range: $110K–$160K , plus benefits and potential bonus.

Who We Are

We are Skybound.

We love creators. We love fans. We love thrilling games, indelible images, and moving stories. Our roots are in comics, but our brands extend to video games, television, movies, merchandise, and live experiences. We take special pride in original tales, fresh characters, and diverse voices.

From well-known franchises to freshly minted originals, we offer the chance to join brilliant creators shaping a new generation of entertainment in a concentrated, agile environment where every perspective matters, and any idea can create a breakthrough.

Opportunity

Skybound is a dynamic, multi-platform entertainment company that builds and commercializes original and existing IP across television, film, gaming, comics, and consumer products. As a global organization with multiple entities in North America, Europe and Asia, Skybound is seeking a seasoned Production Finance Manager to lead core financial planning and reporting functions for TV, Film, and Video Game projects across multiple platforms, in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

The Finance Manager, Production, Project and Revenue Reporting is the financial lead for content production and project planning: responsible for budgeting, ultimates modeling, cost reporting, and ensuring that contractual waterfalls and royalty structures align with company objectives.

This person partners closely with Legal, Production, and Development teams to ensure that budgeting, accounting and contract terms reflect the intended financial structure.

Reports: This position will report to the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting & Planning Management

• Lead the development of production and project budgets (initial, revised, and final) in coordination with Finance, Production, Development, Creative, and Legal teams
• Create and maintain ultimates models — forecast vs actual cost performance, recasting estimates for final settlement
• Monitor and analyze variance between forecast, budget, and actuals of the relevant Productions and Projects
• Maintain, update, and reconcile project-level models and the roll up into corporate production journals
• Oversee cost reporting for productions (weekly, monthly, quarterly) and review reports submitted by production accountants
• Reconcile cost report data to accounting / general ledger, identify discrepancies, and initiate adjustments
• Validate line-item accruals, holdbacks, residuals, participations, and chargebacks
• Liaise with Accounting to track prepaid, committed, and capitalized costs, and ensure proper accounting treatment
• Review and provide input on contract wording (licensing, distribution, production, royalty) to safeguard the intended waterfall structure
• Ensure contract terms are properly captured in financial models and accounting treatment
• Validate royalty waterfalls and profit participation calculations against contractual terms
• Review structure of profit participation worksheets utilized by the operational accounting team and assist in streamlining preparation.
• Act as secondary reviewer of complex participation statement calculations
• Liaise with Legal and Business Affairs to resolve ambiguities or translate contract intent into accounting logic
• Work with Tax, Legal, and Incentives teams to forecast and validate production tax credits and incentives
• Ensure that accounting for incentives, rebates, grants, or co-production structures is correct and documented
• Support audit readiness for production-related cost, reserves, and contractual compliance
• Supervise or mentor production accounting team members in coordinating project plans and their journal entries or month end closing procedures
• Develop, document, and continuously improve production and project accounting procedures, and templates
• Align production planning workflows with corporate accounting systems, ensuring seamless data integration
• Collaborate cross-functionally (Legal, Production, Corporate Accounting) on financial reporting, system enhancements, and process efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or equivalent preferred
• 7+ years of experience in production planning/accounting, entertainment finance, media, or similar environments
• Deep experience with ultimates modeling, show cost reporting, budget vs actual variance analysis
• Strong understanding of contractual waterfalls, royalty structures, residuals / participations
• Familiarity with production tax incentives, co-production accounting, and contract incentives
• Experience working with Legal / Business Affairs to interpret and align contract terms
• Proficiency with accounting systems and Excel (advanced modeling, pivot, sensitivity analysis)
• Comfortable managing multiple productions concurrently, with strong organizational and communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong leadership and interpersonal qualities.
• A proactive, self-directed approach with the ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to pivot and prioritize work.

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Salary Range: $110,000 - $160,000

• Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc.
• The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees
• Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each role

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement.

Company Overview

Skybound is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. We are home to critically acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible.

Skybound Games produces, publishes and distributes video and tabletop games across all genres, including the multi-million-unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. In addition to our wholly-owned franchises, we work with independent developers to foster and create original games with compelling characters and worlds, strong creator and artistic focus, and innovative approaches to engaging genres.

Invincible is one of Skybound's tentpole franchises (celebrating 20 years!) and spans the world of comic books, merchandise, video games, and the critically acclaimed adult animated television series on Prime Video. Now in its second season, the television show has consistently ranked as one of Prime Videos' top-streamed series with a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on the groundbreaking comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, Invincible revolves around 18-year-old Mark Grayson, who’s just like every other guy his age—except his father is (or was) the most powerful superhero on the planet. Still reeling from Nolan’s betrayal in Season One, Mark struggles to rebuild his life as he faces a host of new threats, all while battling his greatest fear - that he might become his father without even knowing it.

The show stars Steven Yeun, with Sandra Oh, Zazie Beetz, Grey Griffin, Chris Diamantopoulos, Walton Goggins, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Mantzoukas, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Kevin Michael Richardson, Seth Rogen, and J.K. Simmons. Executive producers include Skybound's own Kirkman, David Alpert, and Margaret M. Dean.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

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