Copro­duc­tion Office is an inter­na­tio­nal label that pro­du­ces and sells bold and award-win­ning films. Its sis­ter com­pa­ny Brief­mar­ken Wei­ne is one of Berlin’s best wine bars, focu­sing on artis­a­nal and natu­ral wines pai­red with authen­tic Ita­li­an bis­tro cui­sine, also import­ing Ita­li­an “vin d’auteur” to Ger­ma­ny. Film pro­du­cer Phil­ip­pe Bober is the foun­der of both com­pa­nies and has pro­du­ced for­ty films to date with twel­ve of the­se having been sel­ec­ted to screen in Com­pe­ti­ti­on in Can­nes, win­ning two Gol­den Palms: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022) and THE SQUARE (2017) both by Ruben Öst­lund.

We are loo­king for a Finan­ce Mana­ger (job crea­ti­on) to join our Ber­lin team and to sup­port the growth of Copro­duc­tion Office’s acti­vi­ties in Ger­ma­ny. The working lan­guages are Ger­man and Eng­lish, in which full working pro­fi­ci­en­cy is requi­red, fur­ther lan­guages, in par­ti­cu­lar French and Ita­li­an, are bene­fi­ci­al.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND FUNDRAISING:

• Ensu­re the com­pa­ny is pro­per­ly fun­ded: mana­ge the fund­rai­sing pro­ces­ses with the CEO, inves­ti­ga­te new sources of finan­cing.
• Advi­se on invest­ment acti­vi­ties and pro­vi­de stra­te­gies that the com­pa­ny should take.
• Update the busi­ness plan for the deve­lo­p­ment of the com­pa­ny acti­vi­ties in Ger­ma­ny.

FINANCE MANAGEMENT:

• Mana­ge the Ber­lin-based com­pa­nies’ (gas­tro­no­my, cul­tu­ral space pro­ject, film pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny) tre­asu­ry plan­ning; be in direct cont­acts with the pro­vi­ders, nego­tia­te pay­ment sche­du­le.
• Com­mu­ni­ca­te with our Ger­man bank, request short-term and long-term cre­dits.
• Lead the finan­cial report­ing and ana­ly­ze the finan­cial per­for­mance of the com­pa­ny.
• Mana­ge two accoun­tants in Ber­lin.
• Clo­se­ly col­la­bo­ra­te with our exter­nal accoun­tancy firm in Ger­ma­ny (and France when requi­red) and over­see the clo­sing of the balan­ce sheets.
• Clo­se­ly col­la­bo­ra­te with our finan­ce team in Paris, and par­ti­cu­lar­ly, with our col­le­ague in char­ge of the tre­asu­ry plan­ning for the pro­duc­tion and sales acti­vi­ties of the com­pa­nies.
• Help optimize/​automate finan­ce acti­vi­ties, ope­ra­ti­ons, sys­tems, and pro­ces­ses.
• Accu­ra­te­ly prepa­re and fill sta­te and state/​government tax docu­ments.

HUMAN RESSOURCES:

• Recruit new col­le­agues.
• Over­see the onboar­ding pro­cess, inclu­ding con­tracts draf­ting with our exter­nal advi­sor.
• Assist with the Manage­ment of the Ber­lin based team (Wine Bar staff, Cul­tu­ral space pro­ject team).

YOUR BACKGROUND:

• You are flu­ent in Eng­lish and Ger­man. French and Ita­li­an lan­guage are a plus.
• You have a master’s degree in finance/​business or fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on in finance/​accounting with 3+ years of rele­vant pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence.
• You have excel­lent ana­ly­ti­cal and exe­cu­ti­on skills and tho­rough under­stan­ding of finan­cial pro­ces­ses.
• You are a per­fec­tion­ist, with atten­ti­on to detail and mee­ting dead­lines.
• You are fle­xi­ble with a proac­ti­ve skill set.
• You are com­pu­ter sav­vy and pro­fi­ci­ent in cloud-based appli­ca­ti­ons and vir­tu­al workspaces.
• You like working in a team and your strong com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on skills ensu­re the capa­bi­li­ty of working with peo­p­le of various natio­na­li­ties. Col­le­agues can always rely on you.

YOU WILL:

• Work in a mul­ti-lin­gu­al envi­ron­ment, in a fri­end­ly and moti­va­tio­nal atmo­sphe­re with enga­ged and inter­na­tio­nal col­le­agues who bring com­mit­ment and cama­ra­de­rie to their work.
• Obtain valuable expe­ri­ence from working with Phil­ip­pe Bober on uni­que pro­jects.

We look for­ward to recei­ving your full appli­ca­ti­on with a cover let­ter in Eng­lish at staff@​coproductionoffice.​eu indi­ca­ting whe­re you saw this post. (NB Appli­ca­ti­ons wit­hout cover let­ter will not be con­side­red).

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By: Copro­duc­tion Office
Busi­ness sec­tor: Film Indus­try (Inter­na­tio­nal Sales Agen­cy and Pro­duc­tion)
Intern­ship: 1200€ /​ month befo­re taxes for intern­ship
App­ren­ti­ce­ship: Legal remu­ne­ra­ti­on for app­ren­ti­ce­ship
Place: Paris
Intern­ship: 6 months, full time
App­ren­ti­ce­ship: To be dis­cus­sed
Start date: Accor­ding to avai­la­bi­li­ty

We are loo­king for a glo­bal­ly min­ded col­le­ague, who has orga­niza­tio­nal skills, is result-ori­en­ted and has an inte­rest in art-house cine­ma, to join our Paris-based finan­ce team, working in a dyna­mic and inter­na­tio­nal envi­ron­ment.

COMPANY PROFILE


Based in Paris and Ber­lin, Copro­duc­tion Office is an inter­na­tio­nal dis­tri­bu­tor and pro­du­cer of bold, award-win­ning films.

Copro­duc­tion Office’s CEO and foun­der Phil­ip­pe Bober has work­ed with pro­mi­nent ground-brea­king direc­tors* from ear­ly on in their care­ers and has pro­du­ced thir­ty-three films to date. The majo­ri­ty of the­se films were sel­ec­ted for the main com­pe­ti­ti­ons in Can­nes, Venice and Ber­lin, whe­re they have recei­ved many major pri­zes, most nota­b­ly the Venice Gol­den Lion in 2014 for Roy Andersson’s A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE, and the Pal­me d’Or in 2017 and in 2022 for THE SQUARE and TRIANGLE OF SADNESS by Ruben Öst­lund. Copro­duc­tion Office’s inter­na­tio­nal sales divi­si­on dis­tri­bu­tes a cata­lo­gue com­po­sed of films pro­du­ced by Phil­ip­pe Bober as well as acqui­red titles and res­to­red clas­sics, inclu­ding Rober­to Rossellini’s key films. The cata­lo­gue is uni­que for its artis­tic strength, with films that have an indi­vi­du­al and distinc­ti­ve cine­ma­tic lan­guage, and often dar­ing con­tent.

*Lars von Trier, Roy Anders­son, Ulrich Seidl, Jes­si­ca Haus­ner, Lou Ye, Kor­nél Mun­druc­zó, Cris­ti Puiu, Michel­an­ge­lo Framm­ar­ti­no, Car­los Rey­ga­das, Ruben Öst­lund.

JOB OUTLINE

You will work in Copro­duc­tion Office’s finan­ce depart­ment in inter­ac­tion with other depart­ments (sales, pro­duc­tion, fes­ti­vals, mar­ke­ting, deli­ver­a­bles) and par­ti­ci­pa­te to the fol­lo­wing tasks:

• Pro­vi­ding sup­port in day-to-day finan­ce admi­nis­tra­ti­on to ensu­re smooth depart­ment­al ope­ra­ti­ons.
• Con­duc­ting pre-accoun­ting tasks, veri­fy­ing exter­nal accoun­ting ent­ries to ali­gn with the company’s sales and pro­duc­tion acti­vi­ties, with a par­ti­cu­lar empha­sis on topics such as: film coll­ec­tion agen­ci­es and pro­duc­tion cre­dits.
• Imple­men­ting a pay­ment con­trol pro­ce­du­re, stream­li­ning non-bank trans­fer expen­ses among col­le­agues, retrie­ving invoices and receipts, ther­eby mini­mi­zing infor­ma­ti­on loss.
• Main­tai­ning up-to-date moni­to­ring charts, inclu­ding paya­bles and receiv­a­bles track­ing, to faci­li­ta­te effec­ti­ve finan­cial over­sight.
• Assis­ting in appli­ca­ti­ons for banks, cre­dit insti­tu­ti­ons and public funds ope­ra­ting in the film sec­tor and their finan­cial deli­ver­a­bles.
• Pre­pa­ring detail­ed film cos­ts reports for right hol­ders and public funds.

YOU ARE

• Flu­ent in French, Eng­lish, and Ger­man – with a mini­mum level of B2
• Fami­li­ar with finan­ce and/​or accoun­ting noti­ons; rele­vant edu­ca­ti­on is high­ly app­re­cia­ted.
• Com­for­ta­ble with num­bers and finan­cial ana­ly­ses and pro­fi­ci­ent with Excel.
• An inno­va­ti­ve thin­ker who can think out­side the box.
• Both ana­ly­ti­cal and syn­the­ti­cal.
• A per­fec­tion­ist, with atten­ti­on to detail and mee­ting dead­lines.
• Com­pu­ter sav­vy and pro­fi­ci­ent in cloud-based appli­ca­ti­ons and vir­tu­al workspaces.
• A cine­phi­le with a strong inte­rest in dis­co­ve­ring the indus­tri­al side of cine­ma.

YOU WILL

• Gain an over­sight on dif­fe­rent aspects of the com­pa­ny inclu­ding finan­ce, sales, mar­ke­ting, and pro­duc­tion as we are a small and fle­xi­ble com­pa­ny.
• Work in a mul­ti-lin­gu­al envi­ron­ment, in a fri­end­ly and moti­va­tio­nal atmo­sphe­re with enga­ged and inter­na­tio­nal col­le­agues who bring com­mit­ment and cama­ra­de­rie to their work
• Obtain valuable expe­ri­ence from working with Phil­ip­pe Bober on uni­que pro­jects

We look for­ward to recei­ving your full appli­ca­ti­on with a cover let­ter in Eng­lish at staff@​coproductionoffice.​eu (NB Appli­ca­ti­ons wit­hout cover let­ter will not be con­side­red). Plea­se also indi­ca­te whe­re you saw this post.

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Copro­duc­tion Office/​Essential Film­pro­duk­ti­on GmbH ist ein inter­na­tio­na­le Fir­ma (Deutsch­land, Frank­reich, Groß­bri­tan­ni­en, Däne­mark), die muti­ge und preis­ge­krön­te Fil­me pro­du­ziert und ver­treibt. Pro­du­zent und Grün­der Phil­ip­pe Bober hat bis heu­te zwei­und­drei­ßig Fil­me von inno­va­ti­ven Regis­seu­ren wie Roy Anders­son, Jes­si­ca Haus­ner, Ruben Öst­lund, Car­los Rey­ga­das uvm. pro­du­ziert. Zu den zahl­rei­chen gewon­nen Prei­sen gehö­ren u.a. die Gol­de­ne Pal­me 2022 für Ruben Öst­lunds TRIANGLE OF SADNESS oder der Gol­de­ne Löwe 2014 in Vene­dig für Roy Anders­son.

Zur Unter­stüt­zung unse­res Teams suchen wir zum nächst­mög­li­chen Zeit­punkt eine Film­ge­schäfts­füh­rung in Teil­zeit (1–3 Tage pro Woche) in Ber­lin (Mög­lich­keit auf Home Office).

AUFGABEN

Was Sie erwar­tet:

• Füh­ren der Haupt­buch­hal­tung (Erfah­rung im Umgang mit Sesam von Vor­teil)
• Sie küm­mern sich um die Erstel­lung von Monats‑, Quar­tals- und Jah­res­ab­schlüs­sen
• Sie über­neh­men das Tages­ge­schäft in der Finanz‑, Kre­di­to­ren- und Debi­to­ren­buch­hal­tung
• Sie steu­ern den inter­nen Bear­bei­tungs- und Frei­ga­be­pro­zess sowie die Kon­tie­rung von Ein­gangs- und Aus­gangs­rech­nun­gen
• Sie füh­ren Kon­to­ab­stim­mun­gen, Bank­bu­chun­gen, Rech­nungs­ab­gren­zun­gen und Cash Manage­ment durch
• Sie arbei­ten in direk­tem Kon­takt mit unse­rer Geschäfts­lei­tung, unse­ren Pro­jekt­lei­tern und unse­ren Pro­jekt­as­sis­ten­ten
• Sie fun­gie­ren als Ansprech­part­ner für inter­ne und exter­ne Part­ner, ins­be­son­de­re Steu­er­be­ra­ter und Wirt­schafts­prü­fer
• Sie unter­stüt­zen den CFO und die Pro­jekt­lei­ter bei der Erstel­lung von Finan­zie­rungs- und Bank­kre­dit­an­trä­gen

PROFIL

Was Sie mit­brin­gen:

• Aus­ge­präg­te kauf­män­ni­sche Kennt­nis­se
• Prak­ti­sche Erfah­rung in der Finanz­buch­hal­tung und im Rech­nungs­we­sen
• Geüb­ter Umgang mit SESAM FIBU /​ (Lohn) von Vor­teil
• Sehr gute Kennt­nis­se in der Rech­nungs­le­gung nach HGB/​IFRS. Idea­ler­wei­se auch in der Kon­zern­rech­nungs­le­gung eines inter­na­tio­na­len Unter­neh­mens
• Eng­lisch (min­des­tens B1)

WIR BIETEN

• Arbeit an inter­na­tio­nal renom­mier­ten Film­pro­duk­tio­nen
• Mög­lich­keit zur Remo­te-Arbeit von zu Hau­se
• Enga­gier­tes Team mit fla­chen Orga­ni­sa­ti­ons­struk­tu­ren
• Gehalt abhän­gig von Erfah­rung

Wir freu­en uns auf Ihre voll­stän­di­ge Bewer­bung mit Anschrei­ben in eng­li­scher Spra­che an staff@​coproductionoffice.​eu unter Anga­be, wo Sie die­sen Bei­trag gese­hen haben (Hin­weis: Bewer­bun­gen ohne Anschrei­ben wer­den nicht berück­sich­tigt).

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hi,

ich wer­de regel­mä­ßig (wöchent­lich) zwei stun­den zum the­ma tech­no­lo­gy, inno­va­ti­on und start­ups strea­men.

ich suche jeman­den, der mir hilft mit show pla­nung, rese­arch, gäs­te ein­la­den und video editing für you­tube.

wäre stu­den­ten-freund­lich (schät­ze max. 10h pro woche) und pro stun­de bezahlt.

wür­de mich über kon­takt freu­en! bei inter­es­se bit­te eine e‑mail schi­cken mit bei­spie­len eurer arbeit und wel­chen zugang ihr zu dem the­ma haet­tet.

lg, andre­as

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