Leah Gonzales

Create, manage, and reconcile budgets for all digital production, social media and sponsorship broadcast integrations. Work with creative and social media teams to determine possible deliverables and integrations. Oversee all day-to-day operations from pre to post production, cost reporting, negotiate staff/crew and vendor deals, approve all payroll, invoices and journal entries, scout and approve appropriate show venues, liaison between digital/sponsorship and television broadcast departments, ensure all brand content deliverables are fulfilled, manage multiple shows simultaneously.

Supported all operational efforts, including booking travel, processing purchase orders, governing social media activations, and communicating across internal and production departments. Created booking sheets for top staff/talent and hired crew. Tracked/reported talent performance costs and budgets. Served as production manager when necessary. • Established effective tracking system for estimated and actual talent performance costs.

Conducted financial and administrative support operations for executive overseeing production on all core shows and special events. Orchestrated crew hiring, accounting, invoices, booking sheets, and travel arrangements. Coordinated schedule, wrote deal memos, maintained show binder/files,and organized information for press conferences. Special projects as needed. Liaised with internal and external partners. • Resolved frequent urgent messages and freed executive in charge of production from minor concerns by earning responsibility of sorting emails and responding to regular inquiries.

Assist the Executive in Charge of Production with budgeting, cost reporting, production planning and logistics. Coding invoices, maintain show account books and show books for EICP for all core shows and specials, hire/maintain crew lists, process Entertainment Partners payroll for 20 – 300 union/non-union staff and crew, create booking sheets for above-the-line staff and talent, create DGA deal memos, process and audit petty cash floats, create and process purchase orders for approval, book travel for corporate and show related travel, organize certain aspects of nomination press conferences, answer phones and maintain call log for EICP, schedule meetings, set-up offices for production staff. Assist other Producers, when necessary. Liaison between internal departments and Production department. Travel to location, when necessary.