Payroll Accounting & Management for Film and TV Series

Get Certified in Payroll Accounting & Management for Film and TV Series

Taught by Shalonda Ware, Senior Production Finance Manager at Paramount Studios

In this certification course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of payroll management for a film or TV series. This knowledge will allow you to contribute immediately on any production team and be a critical step toward becoming a production accountant that can work on any size of production for film or television.

The payroll manager in a production accounting office generates weekly payroll reports that account for weekly paychecks, payroll taxes, unemployment, union fees, and workers' compensation insurance. Whoever in the production accounting office that is responsible for payroll management submits the weekly payroll report to a production payroll company who then processes accurate paychecks on time.

The course will cover:

• How to onboard new hires
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Roles and responsibilities in a production accounting office
• Phases of production
• Break timecards
• Approval workflow
• Payroll process
• Deal memos
• Unions
• Coding timecards
• Basic payroll rules and procedures
• Payroll processing

What is Individual Certification?

Individual Certification is a single course centered around one subject. Upon the completion of this course you will be Stage 32 Certified in this area of production. (To be Master Certified in a particular area of expertise, please see the Master Certification section of the platform.)

After viewing the course you will be given a test of your knowledge and understanding of the subject matter. You have the ability to pause your course and go back to review sections as you are learning. You will be given three attempts to take the test. If you do not pass the test after the third time you will need to re-enroll in the course.

Once you pass the test you will be issued a Stage 32 Certificate recognizing your efforts in passing the course. You will also be listed in our master database accessible by film commissions, productions and any executives that are looking for talent. You will also receive a Stage 32 Certification badge that will be added to your Stage 32 profile, so people who are hiring on Stage 32 will know that you have completed a Stage 32 Certification course.

In addition to Stage 32, we highly recommend you post your Stage 32 Certificate on your LinkedIn and other social media profiles.

About the Instructor

Over 90 minutes of instruction, you will learn directly from Shalonda Ware. Shalonda is a Senior Production Finance Manager at Paramount Studios with over 10 years of experience as a production accountant. She oversees production accounting for made-for-TV movies for Viacom networks that include Paramount+, MTV, Comedy Central and VH1 and on television series that include TULSA KINGS starring Sylvester Stalone and THE MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN.

(Payment plans available at checkout)