To examine the costs incurred by a production service companies (PSC) to identify deviations from agreed-upon budgets and provide assurance on cost optimization
Understand agreed-upon budget between OTT player and the Production Houses
Conduct discussions and meeting with the finance and commercial teams of the OTT players to understand KPIs for the specific project
Examine the commercials for all key cost elements and identify any savings or excesses
Participate in the cost review process for set construction, location hiring, costumes and procurement of properties
Provide onsite deployment of the required number of consultants/staff to monitor daily costs incurred for materials and services availed during content production
Provide daily production report to the Finance Team of the OTT player
Report and review cost reports based on records kept by on-set production auditors, accounted invoices and actual payments made by the PSC
Provided reliable budgeting guidance to prevent significant cost escalations
01Identified cost-saving opportunities through benchmarking of commercials
Provided near real time production reports that prevented surprises during production
03Provided inputs to OTT player for making funding decisions to PSC
Provided insightful reports that facilitated effective decision making
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