Manages all the financial aspects of production, tracking expenditure against budget using film-industry accounting processes.
What does working in this department look like?
The accounting department manages the financial aspects of a busy production. Just like regular accountants and bookkeepers, production accountants and their team of clerks process thousands of transactions and support financial functions such as budgeting, payroll, cost reporting and banking. Much of the work takes place in an office-style setting and involves interacting with the departments involved the film or television production.
Skills needed
Spreadsheets
Analytics
Statistics
Ability to make graphs
Love for numbers
A perfectionist way of doing things
Resources
What jobs are available?
- Assistant Accountant
- Assistant Accountant AP/PR/PC
- Accounting Clerk
- Accounting Clerk 1
- Accounting Clerk 2
- Accounting Trainee
