Coordinator Business & Legal Affairs Original Series jobs at Netflix in United States, Los Angeles

In this role, you will need to be a big-picture thinker, a self-starter, and an analytical thought partner with an eye for detail. You must thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, and embrace ambiguity and change. You must be a solutions-oriented problem solver and be able to communicate complex ideas using both qualitative and quantitative means to a broad spectrum of stakeholders. The position is based in Los Angeles and will report to the Director of FP&A for UCAN TV.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead long-range planning with an eye towards execution

• Own and support near-term and long-term P&Ls and cash forecasts for our Animated Series teams (includes Adult Animation, Live Action Scripted, Family Spectacle, Preschool & Kids, and 2nd Run Licensing)

• Manage headcount planning/ people cost budgets, and Studio cost planning

• Perform financial scenario analysis to support business unit scaling efforts to assist senior management decision-making

• Own, develop, and iterate on financial KPIs, metrics, and dashboards

• Work with cross-functional teams to adapt and evolve financial framework(s) to properly support managerial and GAAP reporting

• Develop slate review presentations that consolidate and summarize the multiple businesses that make up the Animated Series organization

• Assist in the implementation of a dynamic financial planning tool and drive automation efforts for existing systems

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidates are required to be highly analytical & strategic and be strong, effective communicators

• A sound understanding of related accounting guidance is preferred

• The successful candidate must display initiative in anticipating and exceeding the business demands of senior-level executives. This person must thrive in a fast-paced environment and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.

• Netflix is fast-growing with a flat organizational structure, which means that employees are often asked to perform tasks with a range of difficulties. Candidate must be motivated, disciplined, flexible, and be able to work effectively autonomously

• Candidates with prior experience with and a passion for Animated content will be prioritized. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record of superior financial and strategic analysis and delivering actionable recommendations based on this analysis.

REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of directly relevant FP&A experience, ideally including animation finance

• Extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analyses

• Must have proficiency working with systems and automated reporting tools (i.e., Oracle, Anaplan, Workday financials, etc.). Financial systems implementation experience is a plus

• Superior proficiency with Excel and complex financial modeling

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• 4-year degree in a relevant field with strong academic performance, MBA a plus

• Genuine passion and excitement for Netflix’s unique culture.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $160,000 - $470,000.

quick-thinking, flexible, and able to juggle multiple responsibilities on a large portfolio of scripted

Responsibilities:

• Drafting various agreements during the development and production periods including, without limitation, certificates, writer agreements, and actor agreements.

• Preparation and review of summaries of above-the-line talent deal terms (e.g. contractual travel requirements, dressing rooms, perks)

• Acting as point person for fielding questions related to paperwork, talent representatives’ information, talent deal terms

• Partnering closely with cross-functional departments (e.g., Marketing, Production, Copyright Admin, Minors and Diligence) to ensure operational efficiency with the Business Affairs team

• Maintaining and updating various dashboards and document management systems

• Working with Business Affairs executives, line producers and production personnel regarding day-to-day business/legal issues during prep, principal and post-production

• Coordinating receiving, distributing and uploading signed agreements internally and externally

Qualifications:

• Over 2 years of legal experience within the entertainment industry, at a production company and/or an entertainment agency

• Working understanding of television production, whether for scripted or unscripted content

• Prior experience drafting short-form production agreements

• Exposure to television production agreement deal terms and ability to identify issues

• Exceptional organizational and planning skills, with the ability to track multiple projects and meet deadlines

• Outstanding written and oral communication skills

• Experience working with external partners and meeting strict deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively on cross-functional teams

• Bachelor's degree preferred

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $70,000 - $350,000.

Responsibilities:

• Helping manage external creative agencies, including scheduling meetings, typing up & relaying creative notes

• Helping with internal task management such as helping clean up campaign decks

• Assisting in pre-production phase of marketing shoots, including building talent memos from templates, sending date holds, timeline planning, relaying notes to shoot producers, general admin / logistics work

• Inputting social media assets into Socialite, our asset management system

• Setting up Dropbox links with talent tool-kits, and creating/sending templated social emails to talent reps

• Budget management duties - processing invoices, SOWs, data entry

• Helping field requests from global cross-functional teams – relaying feedback, email follow-ups.

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience working at a network, studio, creative agency or similar entertainment industry environment

• Tech-savvy with absolute proficiency in Google Workplace (formerly G Suite)

• Highly organized, able to effectively prioritize and respond accordingly to the shifting needs of the team

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced setting

• Positive attitude and team player, especially when faced with changing responsibilities

• Comfortable working with executives at all levels of the organization

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $80,000 - $150,000.

• Research and provide tax and incentive advice to Netflix cross-functional partners, such as Production Management, Production Finance, and Business & Legal Affairs teams, with specific regard to cash flow, talent engagement, tax withholding, and indirect taxes.

• Evaluate and apply for production incentives (both domestic and international), and provide show-level support and tracking through the production, audit, and monetization phases.

• Effectively communicate complex tax and incentive matters in simple terms to other stakeholders and be comfortable making timely judgment calls in ambiguous situations.

• Coordinate with external advisors and the broader Netflix Corporate Tax Operations team to review international statutory accounts and tax returns, ensure incentive compliance, and maximize internal tax credit utilization.

• Liaise with Netflix Content Accounting and FP&A teams on financial reporting related to global incentives.

• Collaborate with the Studio Policy team to monitor and analyze existing and proposed tax/ incentive legislation, and assist in defining and implementing appropriate international tax planning strategies.

We find that individuals who quickly obtained Manager-level at a studio or public accounting firm are more likely to be suited to this unique and challenging role. If you’re a Manager or a rising star Senior Tax Associate, we’d love to talk to you. If your background is more on the production side and includes several years of experience with film production incentives, we’d love to talk to you as well!

• 5 to 7 years of tax experience, including public accounting, law firm, and/or relevant in-house industry experience preferred

• CPA preferred but not required

• Experience with film production tax & incentive matters, or strong production finance experience at a studio a strong plus

• International tax consulting or production finance experience a plus

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $50,000-240,000.

We’re looking for someone who has 3+ years of professional experience preferably in a legal field, such as credits, legal delivery, business and legal affairs, contract administration or labor relations, or film/TV production or post production. The ability to read and understand contracts is essential, and basic understanding of guild and union credit requirements is a big plus. Most importantly we’re looking for someone who is excited about and will thrive in our

Some of the job responsibilities include:

• Coordinate with various internal

  (e.g., post, legal, creative, business affairs, clearances, music, etc)
  and external
  (e.g., production and post crew, producers)
  stakeholders during production and post regarding all aspects of screen credits.

• Analyze and interpret contracts to summarize legal and guild screen credit obligations and create main titles draft for each project.

• Coordinate submission of WGA Notice of Tentative Writing Credits and manage credit determination/arbitration process.

• Obtain guild/union waivers and approvals as necessary.

• Review and coordinate approval of final main and end titles for each project to meet delivery deadlines and ensure contractual and Guild compliance.

• Seek innovative solutions to Guild and contractual credit restrictions.

• Build and update forms and templates to improve team efficiency.

• Advise and educate partners on best practices, precedents, and guild/union requirements.

The successful candidate will also possess the following skills:

• Clear and concise communication

• Keen attention to detail and good judgment

• Ability to work proactively, independently and reliably under tight time frames in a fast-paced environment

• Flexible, innovative, and solution driven team player

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $70,000- $115,000.

Responsibilities include:

• Handle all below-the-line legal-related matters arising during development, pre-production, production, post-production, and launch.

• Ability to structure, draft, and negotiate below-the-line production agreements with moderate oversight, ensuring alignment with Netflix and industry standard and deal contexts (e.g. physical production department head agreements; casting director agreements; line producer agreements; short term production services agreements; vendor/rental agreements; equipment rental agreements; vehicle rental agreements; aviation, charter & drone rental agreements; watercraft agreements; location agreements; production office space/stage/facilities lease agreements; post-production agreements and visual effects agreements).

• During negotiations, clearly and succinctly communicate solutions to internal production and business partners as well as external producers and production personnel (e.g. Line Producer/UPM, Production Office Coordinator, Location Manager).

• Efficiently resolve issues without causing delays, adapting to the fast-paced nature of production legal work.

• Establish and maintain strong internal relationships with Business & Legal Affairs colleagues and cross functional partners including Production Management, Post Production, VFX, Labor, Finance, Health and Safety, Tax, Real Estate, Marketing/Publicity and Risk Management teams.

• Exercise sound judgment and curiosity regarding matters of first impression or complex issues.

Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree.

• At least 3-5 years of proven experience in a similar business/legal affairs role in the film or television industry, including experience drafting film and/or scripted series below-the-line production agreements specifically.

• The ability to work proactively and reliably on multiple projects simultaneously under tight timeframes in a fast-paced production environment; being able to prioritize, quickly assess risk and exercise strong judgment in the face of ambiguity.

• The ability to organize, clarify, and communicate complex ideas quickly, succinctly and accurately.

• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively, think practically and be solutions-oriented.

• Confidence in counseling business partners and making decisions that have legal & business impacts.

• The ability to remain flexible and respond positively to changes.

• Tech-savvy individual, including proficiency with Google Suite and cloud-based document and database systems.

• Willingness to tackle matters outside of expertise.

• JD, Paralegal certification or Bar admission accepted, but not required.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $70,000 - $350,000.

Responsibilities:

• Be an embedded business partner for our Studio Services teams

• Ensure the operational excellence of the Finance Procurement Operations team and systems supporting the goals of our stakeholders

• Driving projects that help to simplify and automate manual workflows. Actively participate in system features development and user acceptance testing.

• Partner closely with the business and legal to support supplier sourcing decisions and contract reviews and renewals to build a resilient and diverse supply chain that keeps pace with the evolving needs of our business

• Own finance-related tasks (supplier sourcing, reviewing contracts, creating and reviewing purchase orders, facilitating change orders, reviewing invoices, supplier management, management reporting, etc.) that drive financial accuracy

• Own the month-end accrual process and partner with the operations accounting team to address any significant period over period variances in spend

• Ensure accurate coding of expenses to provide meaningful reporting, help track actuals to budget/forecast and communicate any expected variances

• Review trends in invoicing volume and partner with the accounts payable team to the volume of non-PO and manual invoices, non-OCR invoices, etc.

• Identify process gaps and drive projects to simplify and automate finance and payment workflows

• Perform other duties and ad hoc tasks contributing to the organization’s goals

Requirements:

• You exemplify our Netflix Culture

• Minimum 5 years partnering with Studio Services teams or other similar fast-paced functions in a Finance/Accounting role with a working knowledge of US GAAP accounting frameworks

• Experience in working with a high volume of key stakeholders and building strong working relationships

• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial information

• You are a service-oriented person who focuses on quality communication and attention to detail

• Deep knowledge and understanding of the Source-to-Pay process workflow, including supplier sourcing, contract reviews, and procure-to-pay process

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Extra dose of awesome if you have:

• Experience working with a shared services center in different regions

• ERP and Sourcing systems experience with Workday Financials and Tableau

• Experience working in Entertainment and or Tech Industries

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA and/or CPA

• Experience integrating AI-driven insights or automation tools to enhance financial workflows, optimize vendor selection, or improve studio spend efficiency.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $60,000- $240,000.