Careers at MGA Entertainment

MGA Entertainment is one of the largest and fastest growing privately held toy and entertainment companies in the world. Headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices globally, the company creates innovative, proprietary, and licensed consumer products and entertainment properties, including toys, games, dolls, apparel, consumer electronics, home décor, stationery, sporting goods, movies, and television series. The MGA family includes award-winning brands such as L.O.L. Surprise!™, Little Tikes®, Rainbow High™, Shadow High™, Bratz®, MGA’s Miniverse™, Fluffie Stuffiez™ , Na! Na! Na! Surprise™, Micro Games of America™, Baby born® Surprise and Zapf Creation®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgae.com or check us out at LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. 

Mission: The position is responsible for assisting with the month end close process, balance sheet account and bank account reconciliations, fixed assets subledger maintenance, as well as providing administrative support for Finance management.

Position Requirements 

Education/Experience:

• Four-year college degree preferred
• Minimum 2-5 years experience in accounting

Skills/Knowledge/Ability: 

• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel. 
• Able to work with a minimum of supervision while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations. 
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Good organizational skills
• Strong work ethic and emphasis on attention to details. 
• Analytical problem solving ability. 
• Self–motivated and self–starter
• Detail oriented

Authority:

• Reports to Accounting Manager

Key Result Areas and Activities

Bank Account Reconciliations

• Reconcile bank statements to the general ledger and trace discrepancies
• Collect and review international bank statement reconciliations

Balance Sheet Analysis

• Reconcile all balance sheet  accounts (prepaid expenses, accounts payable, etc.) to the general ledger
• Review, investigate, and correct errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports

Maintain Fixed Assets

Perform the accounting, processing and analysis of fixed assets

• Reconcile fixed assets register to accounting system on a a monthly basis
• Calculation of monthly depreciation, capitalization of CIP projects and retirements; preparation of necessary journal entries and posting in accounting system
• Assist in analysis of monthly variance of actual results from budget
• Preparation of monthly fixed assets schedule
• Provide annual depreciation schedule to budgeting team
• Provide monthly/quarterly/annual reports to tax department

Maintain monthly amortization schedules

• Prepare schedules of accruals and prepaid accounts (insurance, episodic, etc.)
• Calculate monthly amortization; preparation of necessary journal entries and posting in accounting system
• Review and reclass monthly adjustments (e.g. rent, medical)

Recurring Monthly Journal Entries/Requests

• Prepare/calculate shareholder interest calculation entries monthly
• Provide forecast for annual interest expense to budgeting team
• Prepare intercompany loan interest journal 
• Prepare journal entries for daily cash activity
• Prepare/calculate for legal, payroll , royalty & loan interest accruals
• Prepare/calculate for shareholders interest payable/receivable entries
• Responsible for posting SRDA and LT journals
• Maintain general journal book

Payroll Backup

• Run payroll as needed 
• Cut manual checks as needed

Performs other duties as assigned

Salary:

$65,000 – $70,000 /yr