Studio Payroll Success Manager

Entertainment Partners is a global organization that has been a trusted production partner to the entertainment industry for over 45 years, helping clients create and produce great shows, choose the best production location, forecast, manage and track expenses, and pay crew and talent. As a global leader in entertainment payroll, production finance and production management solutions, EP delivers integrated, digital solutions to support every phase of production. EP brings together background casting and digital production technology with the Casting Portal, the leading SaaS-based platform that has transformed the way background actors are found, hired, managed and paid, and the iconic and legendary Central Casting.
Job Summary:
The Studio Payroll Success Manager (SPSM) provides superior external client service by taking personal ownership and accountability for the success of EP's clients at the production level focused interactions with the production and payroll accountants. The SSM is accountable for educating these key client personas on cases related to show level queries either directly or escalated through studios, the use of EP's Accounting, Start and Timecard products, associated payroll workflows and access permissions. Will build and manage an EP payroll team dedicated to the processing of the payroll on large studio jobs. Effectively researches the key show personnel to understand their training and onboarding needs. Maintains product familiarity and learns new functionality to ensure all users are proficient/efficient and maximizing the efficiency between production and EP personnel.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and manage the capacity of the payroll team to ensure the timely turnaround of weekly production payrolls and to ensure the accuracy of pays and reporting.
- Be prepared to run payrolls together with the team to ensure that deadlines will be met.
- Improve EP's ability to ensure Production and Payroll Accountants are successful users of our products and users (increase retention through proficiency and adoption of products and services, etc.). Research and review Prod. Acct. history to inform adoption and training plan.
- Perform Needs Assessment leveraging information from sales process, AM knowledge sharing, client interviews and research to gain an in-depth knowledge of users' key business needs, internal operations and insight to areas of key client value.
- Enhance client relationships through extensive knowledge of the capabilities of each of the key roles
and individuals at the production level
- Engage with client AM team and Accountants to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the
client's workflow and business process and ensure Accountant success and satisfaction with EP's
product and services.
- Establish and execute a Production Success Plan that identifies key areas of need and associated solutions. Focusing your and EP business efforts toward clients that are most able to decide or influence their organization toward building and/or maintaining ongoing relationship with EP.
- Provide superior in-depth application support for all current and future EP Products related to key personas (primarily Production and Payroll accountants)
- Collaborate with clients, guiding them through software program issues and providing navigation
assistance for any area of the company
- Provide Onsite support that includes potential travel outside of state.
- Review show payroll setup before released to client to ensure set-up success and accuracy
- Educate on product releases
- Track and remediate SLAs missed
- Delivery of product feedback back to product teams
- Track all client interactions and correspondence in Salesforce (i.e. meetings, calls, trainings, requests), provide reporting such as Call Logs and other client reports
- Proactively monitor and manage client satisfaction and service delivery by anticipating potential service problems, respond as needed after TSAT, CSAT and NPS responses are received, reviewing Support cases and show health
- Escalate production issues as needed, ensuring that all involved parties are informed of an issue's current status/resolution
- Attend as needed account team meetings designed to review the "state of the client" and provide updates as needed as to the status of production-specific adoption efforts and open cases
- Assist leadership in creating and delivering operational plans based on best practices and process efficiencies
- Perform post-show analysis including review of Production Accountants who fail to continue with EP's products. Create Develop outreach plan.
- Contribute to team's growth and development, by serving as a mentor and support resource to others on the team in support of the client
- Share best practices
- Create Knowledge Base articles and documentation
- Ensure processes are updated as processes evolve
- Support management with various team and department projects
- Maintain market expertise and act as Accountant advocate within EP
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred or industry/job experience equivalent
- Minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, in client service, account management, or client relationship preferred
- Entertainment industry experience preferred, specifically entertainment Production experience
- Experience working with and training enterprise software solutions such as Cost Accounting, Budgeting, Scheduling or a related field
- Knowledge of customer service and account management principles and processes with a particular focus on the Entertainment sector
- A successful track record as a Client Success Management, Enterprise Software Trainer, Senior Support Technician or Account Manager
- Knowledge of general business and management principles including planning, resource allocation, human resources procedures, leadership techniques and operations.
- Ability to demonstrate professional demeanor under various circumstances
- Ability to develop lasting professional relationships with clients
- Creative client focused problem-solving skills with high degree of diplomacy
- Motivated, goal oriented and persistent
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with client facing acumen
- Ability to collaborate and work with team and other departments effectively