Senior Project Accountant

Location - LA (Hybrid)

Data-Driven Research and Insights

MarketCast combines the power of research, technology, and data science to help marketers and researchers maximize their advertising impact and unlock brand Fandom.

Our data and insights guide critical marketing decisions, helping brands determine which fandom audiences to prioritize and product benefits to communicate, in addition to developing, launching, and measuring brand and advertising campaigns across media platforms. Today our clients represent the biggest names in entertainment, tech, consumer brands, and sports and video games, and our impact touches the lives of billions of people around the globe.

We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Senior Project Accountant to join our finance team. This role plays a crucial part in maintaining the financial health of our projects, ensuring accurate accounting, and providing essential insights for decision-making.

As a Senior Project Accountant, you will be responsible for:

• Lead the revenue process including but not limited to revenue recognition and contract review.
• Develop and maintain revenue recognition policies and procedures in accordance with ASC 606 standards.
• Analyze high volumes of data (transactional revenue data) to prepare and present revenue-related reports and analyses to senior management.
• Manage the entire project accounting lifecycle, including validating project data entered in the ERP system, tracking projects, monitoring project budgets, ensuring proper project close-out, and reconciling overall project payables and receivables to project budgets.
• Identify and analyze budget variances and provide strategic recommendations to keep projects on track.
• Drive process improvements and efficiency in project financial management, continually seeking opportunities to optimize revenue recognition and gross margins. This includes identifying and implementing best practices in project accounting and financial control to enhance overall project profitability.
• Design and implement revenue control measures to ensure accurate revenue recognition.
• Forecast major project financial performance and proactively assess potential risks.
• Collaborate effectively with client finance, accounting, project teams, and external stakeholders, providing financial insights and guidance pertaining to projects.
• Participate in project meetings and convey financial updates to relevant parties, fostering clear communication channels.
• Undertake continuous project risk management and promptly communicate identified risks and issues.
• This role will be an Individual Contributor
• Prepares monthly revenue journal entries. This ranges from analyzing automated JE’s on a consolidated level for reasonableness and gathering the data/support needed for manual journal entries.
• Prepare and analyze revenue-related balance sheet accounts including deferred revenue and unearned revenue.
• Assist in year-end audits by compiling detailed supporting documentation and maintaining effective communication with external auditors.

We’re looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Someone with 5-8 years of experience as follows:
  • Minimum of 2-3 years of project-based accounting experience
  • Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in financial accounting for a global company
• Strong understanding of revenue/cost recognition
• Commercially focused; manage revenue and cost control; working knowledge of contract billing terms and schedules
• Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and project accounting best practices
• Experience with project management and time-tracking software/tools
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to meet tight deadlines
• Ability to operate in a detail-oriented and “hands-on” environment
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills
• Quick and avid learner
• Self-starter and highly motivated
• Able to successfully work in an evolving and transformative environment
• Experience with financial systems, including ERP software (knowledge of NetSuite is a plus)
• Strong Proficiency in Microsoft Excel including pivots, power pivots, lookups, basic statistics, advanced filters, preparing graphs and tables, and processing & analyzing large volumes of data.
  • Experience with macros & power query is a plus
• Manage reporting and analysis used to make business decisions
• Preferably someone who has worked for PE-backed companies

Benefits and Perks:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k) Company Match
• Freedom Leave
• Health & Wellness Events & Benefits
• Professional & Personal Learning Opportunities

Our Purpose:

Fandom connects people with shared passions and builds communities around them. It offers them space to express their joy and love, whether that’s for superheroes, sports teams, or even small batch whiskeys. At MarketCast, we believe in the power of fandom. It’s as important for brands as it is for action heroes and we do fandom research, data science and analytics better than anyone on the planet. This obsessive focus on fans helps the world’s top creators, media platforms, and sports leagues transform followers into fanatics and investments into impact.

Our Values:

Curiosity Makes Us Tick

Our love of learning manifests in everything we do - from the surveys we field and the datasets we analyze to the technology we develop. Where others pause, we push forward, uncovering hidden meaning and answers. Always learning, always looking for more.

We Celebrate Wins

Whether its wowing clients with research or solving everyday challenges, we pause to honor great work and everyone who plays a role in it. We acknowledge and recognize great work and hustle that helps deliver the very best outcomes.

Trust is Always Trending

Trust means everything to us. It’s lending a hand when deadlines loom, always delivering on the promises we make, and calling out behavior that harms our culture. And our client’s trust is what makes all this possible, something we never take for granted.

We Roll with Change

We embrace change as an opportunity to learn, grow, and further develop. We do this by challenging our biases and rethinking how things have always been done in the past. This fresh, open-minded approach keeps us agile, innovating, and adapting in the face of uncertainty.

Diversity is Our Superpower

Our differences make us stronger. As researchers and data scientists, we have a responsibility to reflect the diverse audiences and communities all around us. Understanding people, opinions and life experiences fuels our insights and deepens our perspectives.

At MarketCast, we don't just accept difference - we embrace it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our global culture and success. MarketCast is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Check us out: www.marketcast.com

Per the pay transparency law, the hiring range for this position is 100,000 to 120,000. As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skill set, and any other factors MarketCast considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MarketCast believes in providing a competitive total rewards package for its employees. MarketCast offers employees a holistic and wide array of benefits such as subsidized medical, dental and vision, free access to the HealthJoy, Everyday Inclusion, Peloton, and Calm Apps, 401K match from day one, “freedom time off”, career and personal growth outlets, and a robust health & wellness program. All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and the terms of our official plan may be modified or amended from time to time.

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MarketCast research, analytics, and data science fuels fandom for the most successful studios, entertainment platforms, sports organizations, and lifestyle brands on the planet. Our unique mix of research analytics is combined with big data science to provide clients with powerful insights to inform their biggest business decisions. Today, MarketCast counts some of the biggest names in entertainment as clients, including leading Hollywood studios, streaming services, lifestyle brands, tech platforms, and sports leagues and teams.