Josh Ficchi
Manager, Participations & Residuals at Sonar Entertainment
Summary
Results-oriented and strategically focused business analyst with extensive and multi-faceted experience in overseeing schedules, meeting deadlines, quality control, and junior staff supervision in a sometimes hectic working environment. Specializes in many product types and maintains a high level of knowledge, application and retention of union contract provisions, regulations, deadlines, industry standards and requirements governing residuals, internal procedures and processes, and residual computer system programs. Brings a systematic, client-focused, determined, and responsive approach to unforeseen issues impacting operations, and possesses the ability to learn quickly and improve existing processes, procedures, and implement original solutions.
Experience
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS / BURBANK, CA
- Responsible for all aspects of preparing and processing residual setups and payments for television, basic cable, theatrical and new media products in all distribution markets including DGA Pay TV. Clients include CBS, Fox, Lions Gate, HBO, Microsoft, Showtime.
- Analyze and validate contracts, timesheets, guild agreements in detail for completeness and accuracy and break residual set ups in accordance with standard established guidelines; determine the most direct, efficient solution.
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality while alerting clients of latest guild agreement changes (SAG, DGA, WGA, AFM, IATSE, ACTRA)
- Overseeing and motivating a team of 5 for the Pay TV and Basic Cable markets to meet quarterly deadlines in order to fulfill guild requirements.
Manager, Participations & Residuals
Sonar Entertainment
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
US BANCORP / LOS ANGELES
- Assistant to Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking division.
- Responsible for updating company profiles in corporate database.
- Outreach to prospective customers of the bank.
- Accurately creating matrices/spreadsheets for weekly sales updates of client activity.
ADMINSTRATIVE ASSISTANT
TDI, INC. / LOS ANGELES
Reported directly to principal/company owner, responsible for all aspects of office operations. Document delivery, procurement, researching and delivery of client requests. Duties also included supervision of research team at UCLA Medical Center Library.
- Initially hired as data entry clerk, importing and manually entering orders into database. I was quickly given more responsibility and successfully managed 2 research librarians at the National Library of Medicine. Oversaw delivery of each order, from emailed requests and telephone inquiries of journals from music to medicine, with a 95% success rate on rush orders.
- Worked with owner/head researcher to control costs and maintain high quality.
- Maintained correspondence with major corporations, and pharmaceutical companies such as General Motors, Coca-Cola, and Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
Education
CHATTANOOGA STATE
ASSOCIATE OF ARTS
