Coordinator, Term Deal Payroll, PACT

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Team:

The Payments Administration & Contract Tracking (PACT) team that includes a subset team that oversees Term Deals and First Look Deals. This team supports the Scripted Series for the US/Canada (UCAN), UK and Local Language Original (LLO) verticals, Unscripted and Doc teams for all TERM Deals and sits within the UCAN Business & Legal Affairs (BLA) team. Our team has the responsibility for ensuring that all talent under TERM Deals are paid in a timely and accurate manner, that the deal option/extension dates are tracked and all cross functional partners are advised of upcoming date triggers and expirations.

The Role:

This is a highly cross-functional role and the successful candidate must have the ability to work effectively with the Business & Legal Affairs team, Labor, Tax, Production, Creative and Production Finance teams, in addition to our licensed studio counterparts. You will act as a strategic thought partner to those cross-functional teams as well as within our own team as we innovate and experiment with new deals and data tracking, and from time to time, creative payment structuring. ​This role requires someone with a strong emphasis on organization and a high level of attention to detail as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

The successful candidate will embody the core Netflix Values and consistently demonstrate good judgement, be adaptable to change, resilient by being able to juggle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and  be self-motivated. You must have the ability to work proactively, independently and reliably under tight time-frames in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating  great curiosity. 

In This Role You Will:

• Prepare payment authorizations and payment schedules for the various TERM Deal talent to facilitate timely and accurate payments. This includes but not limited to mile-stone payments, weekly salaries and aligning with outside studios for payment purposes.  

• ​Prepare and process weekly time cards for payroll with Cast & Crew,  Entertainment Partners and Netflix Accounts Payable for various types of Term Deals. Inclusive of reviewing edits, processing invoices, tracking costs and charge offs and ensuring the applicable PH&W contributions are made.

• Onboard and process weekly payroll for Term deal staff such as Development Executives as well as all support staff including non union hourly assistants rendering services in various states, familiarity with state law is a plus.  

• Review and understand the financial obligations for applicable overhead on Term Deals and First Look Deals, which includes correspondence with reps regarding the payee entity for OH, requesting OH Budgets and Actuals  at the top of each contract year. In addition to tracking costs that reduce the Overhead.

• Option tracking: review, evaluate and execute the contractual deadlines for all TERM Deals for the Scripted Series, Unscripted and Doc Teams

  • This includes OAD’s, Development Execs and Support Staff including Assistants, First Look Deals and General Talent Holds.

  •  Draft all pick up notification letters, make note of any representation changes/updates and arrange signatures with the BALA lead and send formal letters and/or notification emails to reps for option pick up extensions.

• Act as internal/external ​point-of-contact​ for payment and deadline related questions

• Consult  with our tax team to flag potential issues with loan out corps, pay entities, work location, production locations etc.​

• Ensure ATL payroll start paperwork is received, complete​ and accurate

• Remediate overpayments, lost checks ( stop payments and reissues), Corp suspensions and providing payment details to rep and/or talent. 

• Maintain flexibility and openness to take on additional projects as necessary, even outside of your area of expertise

• Ability to be adaptable and respond positively to change, and to genuinely embrace new ideas. Furthermore, advocating for cultural diversity and maintaining a solution-oriented approach are crucial for success.

About You: 

• You have 3-5 years of experience in production payroll, production finance, or contracts and payments administration and or legal/ business affairs at a television studio, production company or law firm.

• You are well versed in the above-the-line union labor agreements with an emphasis in WGA.

• You have the ability to ​read, ​understand and summarize legal contracts with an emphasis on deadline triggers while having the ability to articulate issues using​ creative, production and financial context

• You are proficient with Google Workspace (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar and Mail) 

• Additional knowledge of entertainment payroll practices outside of the US is a bonus, but not required. Netflix produces shows across the world, including but not limited to Vancouver, Toronto, Prague, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Germany, UK, etc.

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 - $175,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here. 

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.