Fractional Controller

Block Productions Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Block Productions Inc. in NYC sits Soho office 1-2 days per week and seeks a detailed accountant to manage end-to-end AP/AR, vendor management, and cross-border invoicing for a fast-paced production company.

The role covers job costing, multi-entity postings, FX handling, and payroll coordination, with quarterly 1099s prepared with our CPA. A proactive team member who owns the process will thrive in this environment.

Qualifications

• High volume 1099 experience in production/film/TV/events or similar freelance-heavy industries.
• Experience reconciling actuals to estimates at the job level.
• Comfort with multi-entity LP/GP structures and correct entity postings.
• Experience paying international vendors and handling FX in books.

Responsibilities

• Full cycle AP: vendor invoice intake, coding to jobs, approvals, and payment runs including international vendors in GBP/EUR.
• AR: client invoicing per contract terms, chasing aging, collections.
• Owning the vendor file: W-9s collected at onboarding.
• 1099 season: prepping a high volume of 1099-NECs with our CPA (freelance production crew).
• Job cost tracking: reconciling actual spend against production budgets per project.
• Month end close: bank and card reconciliations across multiple accounts (including Amex Business Platinum), accruals, petty cash and production advances, logging and coding card spend in QuickBooks.
• Payroll: coordinating crew payroll data, payroll tax and workers comp lines, 401(k) census with our recordkeeper.

Skills

1099 experience

Job costing

Multi entity

Multi currency AP

Payroll

QuickBooks

Tools

QuickBooks

Job description

Details:

• NYC based. 1-2 days a week in our Soho office
• Available Mon - Fri to jump on odd payments and client invoicing as they come up. Billed in hourly increments.
• Starting ASAP with a handover alongside our outgoing controller before he leaves.

What you'll be doing:

• Full cycle AP: vendor invoice intake, coding to jobs, approvals, payment runs including international vendors in GBP/EUR
• AR: client invoicing per contract terms, chasing aging, collections
• Owning the vendor file: W-9s collected at onboarding, not in January
• 1099 season: prepping a high volume of 1099-NECs with our CPA (freelance production crew)
• Job cost tracking: reconciling actual spend against production budgets per project
• Month end close: bank and card recs across multiple accounts (including Amex Business Platinum), accruals, petty cash and production advances, logging and coding card spend in QuickBooks
• Payroll: coordinating crew payroll data, payroll tax and workers comp lines, 401(k) census with our recordkeeper

Must have:

• High volume 1099 experience. Production, film/TV, events or similar freelance heavy industries. Tell us your typical annual 1099 count.
• Job costing. You've reconciled actuals to estimates at job level.
• Multi entity. Comfortable with an LP/GP structure and keeping transactions in the right entity.
• Multi currency AP. Paying international vendors and handling FX in the books.
• Payroll. You've worked with a payroll provider and understand employer burden lines.
• QuickBooks. Comfortable owning the books day to day, not just data entry — chart of accounts, job costing structure, card feed reconciliation.

Nice to have:

• Photo/video production or agency accounting background
• Experience supporting a CPA through year end
• Familiar with production budget formats, line item estimates, petty cash floats, advances

This role rewards someone energetic and proactive: quick turnaround on payment requests, flagging budget issues before they're asked about, no chasing for updates, and the flexibility to jump in when things pop up. We want someone who wants to be part of the team and engaged with the projects, not just processing what lands in the inbox.