Production Finance, Originals, ROW Local Originals
Amazon•Published 1 days ago•First seen 6 hours ago
Are you ready to shape the future of original content production in Latin America? Amazon Prime Video is seeking a Production Finance Analyst III to manage entertainment production finance for our growing Mexico operations. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of our original content investment strategy, working directly with production teams, local producers, and global stakeholders to ensure financial excellence across ambitious television and film projects.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your production finance expertise while tackling complex challenges including Value Added Tax (VAT) compliance, production incentives, and cross-border financial operations. You'll serve as the critical financial liaison between creative production teams and Amazon Studios finance, managing everything from budget reviews to tax credit workflows. If you thrive in a fast-paced, global environment where you can drive both strategic initiatives and hands-on financial controllership, this role offers the perfect blend of analytical rigor and entertainment industry innovation.
Key job responsibilities
Manage production execution budgets for original content shows in Mexico, providing weekly financial status reports to the Latin America Production Finance team including purchase orders, funding updates, and critical production finance information
Serve as the primary financial liaison between multiple original television productions and Amazon Studios finance team, reviewing production budgets, cost reports, trial balances, and reconciliations prepared by show accountants
Oversee production incentive workflows to secure tax credits and cash rebates, while managing Value Added Tax (VAT) compliance and complex cross-border financial requirements specific to the entertainment industry
Collaborate with Line Producers, Production Managers, and cross-functional teams including Legal, Tax, Business Affairs, and Accounting to ensure accurate financial reporting, proper account reconciliation, and seamless production cash flow management
Develop and implement innovative financial reporting processes, controls, and policies that enable effective controllership while supporting the rapid growth and complexity of Prime Video's original content business
About the team
The Latin America Production Finance team is part of Amazon Prime Video's Original Content group, dedicated to investing in the most promising entertainment for our customers across the region. As we expand our Mexico operations, our team plays a vital role in protecting Amazon's investment in original content while enabling creative ambition. We work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where innovation meets financial discipline.
Our team partners closely with production, legal, business affairs, and accounting teams across the globe, serving as trusted advisors to both creative and business leaders. We're building the infrastructure and processes to support Prime Video's rapid growth in Latin America, creating opportunities to shape how production finance operates at scale. Join us in this exciting phase where your financial expertise directly influences which stories get told and how efficiently we bring world-class entertainment to millions of customers.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your production finance expertise while tackling complex challenges including Value Added Tax (VAT) compliance, production incentives, and cross-border financial operations. You'll serve as the critical financial liaison between creative production teams and Amazon Studios finance, managing everything from budget reviews to tax credit workflows. If you thrive in a fast-paced, global environment where you can drive both strategic initiatives and hands-on financial controllership, this role offers the perfect blend of analytical rigor and entertainment industry innovation.
Key job responsibilities
Manage production execution budgets for original content shows in Mexico, providing weekly financial status reports to the Latin America Production Finance team including purchase orders, funding updates, and critical production finance information
Serve as the primary financial liaison between multiple original television productions and Amazon Studios finance team, reviewing production budgets, cost reports, trial balances, and reconciliations prepared by show accountants
Oversee production incentive workflows to secure tax credits and cash rebates, while managing Value Added Tax (VAT) compliance and complex cross-border financial requirements specific to the entertainment industry
Collaborate with Line Producers, Production Managers, and cross-functional teams including Legal, Tax, Business Affairs, and Accounting to ensure accurate financial reporting, proper account reconciliation, and seamless production cash flow management
Develop and implement innovative financial reporting processes, controls, and policies that enable effective controllership while supporting the rapid growth and complexity of Prime Video's original content business
About the team
The Latin America Production Finance team is part of Amazon Prime Video's Original Content group, dedicated to investing in the most promising entertainment for our customers across the region. As we expand our Mexico operations, our team plays a vital role in protecting Amazon's investment in original content while enabling creative ambition. We work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where innovation meets financial discipline.
Our team partners closely with production, legal, business affairs, and accounting teams across the globe, serving as trusted advisors to both creative and business leaders. We're building the infrastructure and processes to support Prime Video's rapid growth in Latin America, creating opportunities to shape how production finance operates at scale. Join us in this exciting phase where your financial expertise directly influences which stories get told and how efficiently we bring world-class entertainment to millions of customers.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of entertainment deal making, representing or working for a major scripted production company, studio, network, record label, or music publisher experience
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings, or experience in a data center or other critical environment
- Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions, or experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query)
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English
- · 5-7 years of experience in production finance/accounting and an analytical frame of mind
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field, or a Bachelor's degree and experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Experience managing multiple competing priorities simultaneously and driving goals to completion
- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving, or experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Experience in business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business
- Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)