Participations Manager

The Film Market; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Film Market in Santa Monica, CA seeks a Participations Manager to oversee the preparation, review, and issuance of participation statements, ensuring contractual compliance and timeliness. This role blends technical leadership with people leadership, guiding analysts and ensuring quality control across reporting.

You will review work, train analysts, and directly prepare complex statements while driving process improvements and coordinating with Legal, Finance, and Accounting.

Qualifications

• Lead and develop analysts to build subject-matter expertise.
• Review participation statements for accuracy and contractual compliance.
• Identify and implement process improvements in reporting workflows.
• Escalate complex deal structures and inquiries to Legal, Finance, and Accounting.

Responsibilities

• Review participation statements prepared by analysts to ensure accuracy, contractual compliance, and adherence to departmental standards.
• Prepare participation statements as needed.
• Interpret and assess contracts for participations subject-related matter.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex deal structures, participant inquiries, and internal questions from Legal, Finance, and Accounting.
• Train, coach, and develop analysts, providing technical guidance and helping build subject-matter expertise across the team.
• Lead analysts through issue resolution, statement corrections, and interpretation of participation agreements.
• Test and implement process improvements, efficiency, and standardization.
• Responsible for special projects and ad hoc analysis as requested.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Contract analysis

Process improvement

Job description

• The Manager, Participations is responsible for overseeing the preparation, review, and issuance of participation statements to ensure contractual compliance, accuracy, and timeliness. This role serves as a technical and people leader- reviewing work prepared by analysts, training and mentoring staff, and directly preparing complex participation statements that require advanced judgment and expertise.
• The Manager acts as a key quality-control layer within the department, ensuring that participation reporting reflects deal terms accurately and is consistent with internal standards, policies, and reporting practices.

Participations Manager

Requirements

• Review participation statements prepared by analysts to ensure accuracy, contractual compliance, and adherence to departmental standards
• Prepare participation statements, as needed
• Interpret and assess contracts for participations subject-related matter
• Serve as an escalation point for complex deal structures, participant inquiries, and internal questions from Legal, Finance, and Accounting
• Train, coach, and develop analysts, providing technical guidance and helping build subject-matter expertise across the team
• Lead analysts through issue resolution, statement corrections, and interpretation of participation agreements
• Test and implement process improvements, efficiency, and standardization
• Responsible for special projects and ad hoc analysis as requested

Compensation: $90,000 - $100,000 /year USD