ABOUT EP

Entertainment Partners is a 100% employee-owned company and we really enjoy working together as a team and serving our clients. From the time you are first contacted by your new hire buddy, through the many celebrations we hold throughout the year, you will experience a very special sense of community.

We are seeking team members who are willing to demonstrate ongoing commitment to our clients and to each other. We offer a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits including multiple options for medical/dental/vision health benefits, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), and a fun and supportive environment.

Entertainment Partners is an equal opportunity employer. Employment with us is contingent upon successful completion of pre-employment background check.

How to Apply
You may apply for a position in one of two ways:

• If the button is available, click on it for the specific job and apply through Recruit Wizard. Fill in the information as requested and use the navigational buttons to continue and complete your application.
• If the Apply button is unavailable, click the button to send your resume and salary requirements as attachments (Word® .doc or .pdf preferred) to jobs@entertainmentpartners.com. Include the specific job code in the Subject line.

Current Positions Available
Last Updated: February 1, 2012

• Casting Payroll - Associate Paymaster
• Client Services - Associate
• Payroll - Adjustments - Associate Staff Analyst
• Payroll - Pensions - Associate Administrator
• Product Support - Staff Representative
• Software Development - Business Systems Analyst
• Software Development - Sr. Business Systems Analyst
• Software Development - Sr. Reports Developer
• Software Development - Sr. Software Developer
• Software Development - Sr. Software Developer (Java)

Burbank - CC2012-07 - Casting Payroll - Associate Paymaster

• Able to process between 100-150 background actor payment vouchers in accordance with SAG contracts and state and federal labor law requirements on a daily basis.
• Key and verify payrolls.
• Maintain good relationships with background actors and clients.
• Run reports.
• Establish and maintain show folders and logs.
• Maintain records of payroll information, training notes, and updates to the Procedures Manual.
• Deal with telephone and personal inquiries regarding processed payrolls.

• High School graduate or equivalent.
• Minimum two years payroll experience or one year industry payroll experience.
• Type minimum of 40 wpm.
• Proficient with 10-key and data terminal keyboard.
• Able to handle high volume of phone calls.

Burbank - CS2011-04 - Client Services - Associate

• Provide support to internal and external clients on all aspects of account administration and client management.
• Handle all inquiries/requests from clients and business partners.
• Effectively educate and assist clients with account approval process.
• Obtain client financial information and complete opportunities per outlined procedures.
• Track account documentation and financial requests.
• Communicate with all clients on issues and provide/present solutions.
• Respond to client voicemails and emails.
• Prepare all client paperwork for account establishment and maintenance.
• Address and supervise all client requests including follow through until completion of request.
• Perform research as necessary.
• Update client information in CRM database and MARCS system.
• Prepare all paperwork and reports required for client meetings.
• Assist Client Services Director with all SAS70 compliance duties.
• Create, organize, and maintain all client files.
• Assist other team members.

• Minimum 2 years client services experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel).
• Must be able to work independently and be a team player.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Multi-tasking skills.
• Entertainment industry experience preferred.

Burbank - PP2012-02 - Payroll - Adjustments - Associate Staff Analyst

• Entering and maintaining CRM (includes entering and cleaning up CRM).
• Call client with incoming adjustments.
• Calculate, audit, and input various adjustments in accordance with client, employee, union, state, and federal requirements.
• Have a complete understanding of the Payroll system, to include occupation codes and pay codes.
• Ability to deal with time sensitive issues and stressful situations.
• Provide analysis.
• Release history cancel/replace adjustments.

• 1-2 years production (or similar) payroll experience.
• Basic knowledge of entertainment industry union contracts.
• Ability to research and analyze payroll documents.
• Must be detail oriented.
• Proficient with 10-key and data terminal keyboard.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.

Burbank - PP2012-03 - Payroll - Pensions - Associate Administrator

• Understand the benefit system and process information within it.
• Assist paymasters and clients with information regarding benefit rates.
• Process payroll reports.
• Calculate, audit, and process benefit payments in accordance with client, employee, and Union requirements.
• Answer incoming calls.

• Knowledge of Microsoft® Office (Word and Excel).
• Knowledge of Microsoft® CRM is helpful.
• Proficient with 10-key.
• Good math aptitude.
• Experience with contract administration.
• Understanding of Pension benefits a plus.
• Must possess good time management and communication skills.
• Ability to research and analyze payroll documents.

Burbank - PS2011-13 - Product Support - Staff Representative

• Provide first line support for EP products both within the respective phone and CRM queues.
• Provide application support for Vista, Global Vista, APA and VisMax accounting packages as well as VPO, Petty Cash Card, EP and Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling applications and licensing.
• Assist Staff Support Representatives in reaching client solutions.
• Work with Product Support Teams to help document and update Product Support group on product changes.
• Detailed entry of call information in CRM.
• Answer calls from the phone queue.
• Participate in regularly scheduled team meetings.

• Strong Vista and Global Vista Accounting System knowledge.
• Microsoft® CRM.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, and Excel).
• Intermediate knowledge of computer file maintenance -- must know about zipping a file, directory maintenance.
• Familiarity with a Mac® is helpful.

Burbank - SW2010-15 - Software Development - Business Systems Analyst

• Operate independently, interfacing with both business and development communities throughout the duration of a software development project.
• Translate requests for software projects into concrete representations of vision, requirements, and design.
• Express project requirements and design elements by creating various UML artifacts.

• Knowledge of the entertainment industry, and/or accounting experience is a plus.
• 2+ years object-oriented System Analysis experience in a software development environment.
• Highly proficient experience with Unified Modeling Language and modeling tools such as Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, et al.
• Must be able to express business requirements and design elements using various UML diagrams where appropriate as per the Project Manager.
• Must have experience in an iterative software development environment (e.g., UP, XP, Agile, etc.).
• Solid communication skills (verbal and written).
• Must have prior experience with case models.
• Must have excellent team building skills.

Burbank - SW2011-06 - Software Development - Sr. Business Systems Analyst
The Business Systems Analyst primarily acts as the liaison between the business community and the software development community throughout the duration of a software development project. The person will help the business user with understanding their current process and take ownership of their work. They will translate requests for software projects into concrete representations of project vision, requirements and design.

• Discover and scope business opportunities and proposed solutions from both a technical and business capacity.
• Develop use case models, domain models, and other artifacts necessary to communicate business goals and system constraints using modeling tools.
• Conduct focused and effective meetings with diversified groups.
• Assist Project Managers with work-effort estimates, schedule planning, architectural and cost analysis, technology selection, design, and prototyping.
• Aid in the development of training materials and other required documentation.
• Participate and coordinate test activities with stakeholders and end-users.
• Assist in developing supports and implementing best practices for software development.
• Liaison between programmers and stakeholders to resolve and refine issues that arise in the design process.
• Other responsibilities as required.

• 3+ years object oriented system analysis experience in a software development environment.
• Highly proficient experience with Unified Modeling Language (User Stories) and modeling tools such as Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, et al.
• Must be able to express business requirements and design elements using various UML diagrams where appropriate as per the Project Manager.
• Prior experience with case models, a must.
• Experience in an iterative software development environment (i.e., UP, XP, Agile, etc.).
• Proficient communication skills (verbal and written).
• Excellent team building skills, a must.

Burbank - SW2011-22 - Software Development - Sr. Reports Developer
The Sr. Reports Developer will lead the design and implementation of a database reporting (OLAP) infrastructure, including data modeling, ETL methodology, and the integration/consolidation of multiple diverse data sources, create SQL queries and reports, and perform complex data analysis. This person will work closely with Project Managers, System Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, end users, and other team members, providing vision and guidance on a wide range of application development projects, and act as a liaison and mentor to report developers.

• Design and implement complicated reports and sub reports.
• Develop complicated stored procedure required for reporting.
• Optimize ANSI SQL and stored procedures.
• Provide solution for enhancing the performance of reports.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• Expert experience using Crystal Reports and Business Objects, including Universe design, WebI, as well as designing for report security and change management.
• Exceptional skills in sub-report, formulas, graphs, drilldowns and database expert a must.
• 5+ years previous experience in report development and implementation involving the integration of data from large, complex enterprise-class data sources.
• Highly proficient Microsoft SQL Server experience with T-SQL (stored procedures and views). Experience with DB2 LUW and IBM DataStage a plus.
• Excellent documentation, communication, interpersonal, and time-management skills.
• Ability to develop and foster positive internal/external customer relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment, a must.
• Experience in financial applications is a great plus.

Burbank - SW2010-24 - Software Development - Sr. Software Developer
The Sr. Software Developer will primarily be assigned to a project team in our software department involving the analysis, design, implementation, and potential maintenance of software relating to business conversion requirements. Individual will work closely with the development manager, architects, analysts, QA, customer support and team members. The person will need to understand the requirements, develop technical designs, implement and extend applications, integrate with internal systems and support the full application. The candidate is expected to mentor and lead team members in complex integration projects.

The candidate should have the ability to understand and follow the directions from DM. The candidate should be able to follow the team and department standards and directives.

• Design and implement UI screens using Java Swing and web technologies.
• Develop and maintain Java Swing based desktop application and n-tier applications utilizing.
• Java EE technologies (including Spring, Hibernate and web services).
• The development and refinement of complex object-oriented applications and components.
• Translate business requirements and use cases to design.
• Participation in peer driven code and design reviews.
• Development using Unit testing and of Unit test fixtures for new and existing applications.

• 5-7 years of experience programming in Java/J2EE/JDBC, web services, messaging technologies and frameworks.
• 2-3 years experience must on developing desktop applications with Java Swing.
• 1-2 years experience of developing Java on Mac, using xcode.
• 2-3 years experience in Database design and modeling.
• Development experience with JUnit, ant, maven, Continuous Integration.
• Working knowledge of Clear Case, Clear Quest, Enterprise Architect (EA) or design/modeling tools as Rational architect/rose.
• Working Guru on Eclipse IDE.
• Well versed in design patterns and J2EE patterns, frameworks such as Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SEAM, etc.
• Knowledge of development on and configuration of application and web servers viz. JBOSS, apache, web sphere, etc.
• Proficiency in object oriented programming languages (JAVA).
• Experience in Java EE implementation.
• Some experience in web services is a plus.
• Knowledge of OO software engineering principles and practices is required.
• Ability to develop and foster positive relations with internal/external customers.
• Ability to read, review, and author UML based software modules.
• BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• 5-7 years previous Software Developer experience.

Burbank - SW2011-01 - Software Development - Sr. Software Developer (Java)

• Design and implement UI screens using Adobe Flex.
• Develop and maintain n-tier applications utilizing Java EE technologies (including Spring, Hibernate, and web services).
• The development and refinement of complex object-oriented applications and components.
• Communication of component design models to other programmers/team members.
• Participation in peer driven code and design reviews.
• Design and implementation of Unit test fixtures for new and existing applications.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• Highly proficient in program development using JAVA Swing.
• Proficiency in program development against ISAM file structures.
• Working knowledge and experience handling structured development processes.
• Demonstrated experience in use or proprietary library functions.
• Excellent documentation, communication, interpersonal and time-management skills.
• Must be able to develop and foster positive internal/external customer relationship.
• Ability to read, review, and author UML based software modules.
• Development experience on Microsoft Windows including experience using Windows 3.1 API and/or Mac platforms.
• Willing to work in a fluid work environment.
• Must be able to meet required deadlines and stay after hours as needed depending on project.
• In depth experience using SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with production accounting, accounting or other related application processes.
• Professional, personable, proactive, must be able to problem solve and ability to work independently.
• Also, must be able to work in a team environment.