Amazon MGM Studios is looking for a Contracts Manager for its Participations team in Culver City, CA. This master problem-solver will shepherd a wide range of entertainment deals through our IT systems to ensure prompt and proper financial reporting to profit participants. Come be at the center of it all - legal, finance, and technology - as we support the most exciting new creative projects in the industry.
Key job responsibilities
- Collecting and reviewing inbound agreements to determine whether there are any third party reporting obligations;
- Preparing contract abstracts for approval by Amazon MGM Studios attorneys;
- Recommending reporting methodology;
- Integrating agreements into the company’s automated participation accounting applications and translating legal terms into system options;
- Analyzing wills, trusts, and other estate and chain-of-title documents;
- Drafting buyout agreements and notices of irrevocable authority; and
- Providing legal research and system-troubleshooting support for financial analysts and clerks.
A day in the life
The Contract Manager interfaces with leaders in business affairs and finance, authoring reports and data profiles that promote a clear and uniform understanding of backend deals across departments and ranks.
About the team
Strengthen human connections; minimize human error. The Participation department's Contracts Group demystifies the "legalese" of entertainment agreements for our financial colleagues, translates deal points into efficient, automated system codes, and manages all the inevitable changes that occur over the life of each contract. Contracts are living documents to us, and we honor the opportunity to meet the human beings behind them.
