Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon MGM Studios Finance

About the role

Amazon MGM Studios is responsible for producing and acquiring compelling, exclusive Original content for Amazon Prime Video customers. We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our First Look & Overall (FL/O) Finance team.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end contract payments across FL/O deals, ensuring accuracy of installment schedules, payment terms, recoupment charge-offs, and disbursement timelines
• Own recoupment reporting for Development and Production payments, verifying recoupable fees and aggregating data to inform guaranteed fee payouts
• Support overhead invoicing process by communicating with talent & business managers to validate invoiced charges and ensure timely processing
• Execute complex deal audits involving multiple projects and services across multiple stakeholders, identifying discrepancies and escalating for resolution
• Build and maintain scalable reporting and processes to support FL/O deal tracking and payment operations
• Partner with Business Affairs, Legal, Production Finance, Development Finance, and Creative to ensure contractual compliance, payment accuracy, and financial reporting
• Support FP&A activities including payment operations reporting, actuals-to-budget variance analysis, and month-end close processes

Requirements

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Bachelor's degree

Qualifications

• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos)
• Experience working for an entertainment agency, studio, or similar organization