Talents Payments Assistant

A well -known TV production business is looking for a Talent Payments Assistant to report to the Talent Payments Manager and assist the rest of the finance team.

This is an excellent opportunity to be the key point of contact for Production, SSC, Sales, Legal, talent unions and music collecting societies as well as being responsible for paying contributors for primary production. The purpose of this role is to calculate and process payments due to contributors of productions, produced by FMUK or other third party producers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Make payments in accordance with the Equity, Musicians and Scriptwriters Union Agreements for both Primary & Secondary exploitation.
• Carry out weekly pay runs
• Involvement in the development of the Talent payments system, working closely with the Supervisor
• Creation and upkeep of the department system process documentation
• Set up payment basis for Third Party Programmes- number contracts, set up contract templates, link to Programme and Check final print out
• Make payments to contributors of any other Programmes which are in production
• Add and update Artiste/Agent records and Artiste Contracts on the Artiste Payments system
• Process and/or cross-check input by the other Assistant
• Liaise both internally and externally to resolve any queries as they arise, passing complex / commercial sensitive queries to the senior members of the Talent Payments team.
• General Talent Payment duties e.g. un-cashed cheques, control account reconciliation
• Work on ad-hoc Talent Payments projects as requested