christine's Answer

*Act as liaison with MTV Finance and Production teams on all key processes to ensure compliance with GAAP, MTVN Policies and Procedures, and SOX.
*Understand and document (as necessary) internal controls, policies, and procedures surrounding the production process.
*Cultivate and maintain channels of communication with key MTVN Legal and Business Affairs personnel in technical areas including music clearance, sweepstakes, trademarks, guilds, regulatory compliance and standards and practices.
*Monitor charge backs with two major productions concerning the entities: LOGO and MTV and the vendor Entertainment Partners Incorporated.
*Recognize and propose opportunities to strengthen controls surrounding the production process.
*Identify and propose opportunities to increase the efficiency of the production process.
*Communicate new policies based on recommendations to production management.
*Assist in the research, design, development and implementation of disbursing/voiding/stopping payments.
*Develops banking relationship with JP Morgan to reconcile accounts and strengthen business infrastructure using JP Morgan Access banking system, manager checks.
*Audits distribution agreements, intellectual property licenses, strategic alliances, confidentiality agreements, services agreements, acquisition agreements, joint venture agreements, promotion agreements, talent agreements, work for hire agreements and content production agreements in all media platforms (TV, radio, wireless, online, etc).
*Act as main contract management resource for all contracts used for shows, productions, services.
*Research and reconcile delinquent payments/credits submitted from prior months hitting ledgers.
*Maintain financial controls through balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow analysis.
*Preparation of account analyses and reconciliations in support of the monthly, quarterly, and annual book closes.
*Supervise, train, coach, mentor four new temps, as well as the company we are outsourced to; created training manual.