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About Me

After working as a Production Manager and Line Producer for over 20 years on a wide variety of shows, including dramas and independent feature films, I moved into production accounting, working as an Accounts Assistant for four years from 2019. 

 

In 2023 I became a Production Accountant, looking after several large budget television series filming worldwide for broadcasters in the UK and the USA.

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I joined specialist production accounting firm We'll Mind Your Own Business in 2025, where I have been working as Production Accountant on feature films and television series for companies including Amazon/Miramax, Lionsgate and Channel 4, and with bond company Media Guarantors.

Software Experience:

  • Sage 50Cloud Accounts

  • Xero Accounting

  • EP Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling

  • Adobe Photoshop Elements

  • Excel and Word

Additional Skills:

  • Full clean driving licence

  • BBC Health and Safety course taken

  • Screen Skills Advanced Production Accounting course taken in 2026

  • I'm comfortable removing spiders for people

Accounting
Skills and experience

Accounting

  • Purchase and sales ledger invoice processing

  • Reconciling bank accounts

  • Setting up bank payments & transfers.

  • Preparing internal recharge schedules

Cost reports

  • Calculating production cash flows

  • Cost manager monthly match ups

  • Preparing cost reports with variance

  • Managing milestone funding tracking

Payroll and staffing

  • Onboarding and processing US payroll for American crew

  • Preparing 1099s for US accountants

  • Ensuring staff contract grades and paperwork are HMRC compliant

Tax Credits & Cast Tax

  • Preparing tax credits for both UK and Ireland

  • Knowledge of Irish tax system and cast film withheld tax
  • Completing FEUs for UK cast

Expenses & Currency

  • Managing P-Cards pre-paid Mastercards on both old and new websites

  • Multi-currency productions inc with variable rates in production

Clearances and Unions

  • Experience working with Equity and SAG re contracts, deposits and delivery documents

  • Preparing clearances and documents for delivery

Production
Skills and experience

Action and Horror

  • Filming with special effects and pyrotechnics

  • Filming with firearms and military vehicles, including tanks

Health and safety

  • Working with stunt co-ordinators and special effects artists

  • Combat training and safety preparation for cast members

Costumed drama

  • Working with historical costumes, hair and make up

  • Filming in period properties including stately homes and listed locations

Budgeting

  • Preparing script breakdown, budget and full fat filming schedule

  • Preparing cash flow and cost reports.

  • Managing production budget

Complex shoots

  • Filming with children or animals

  • Filming in high-risk volatile territories.

  • Filming near or on water

  • VFX and green screen shoots

Other

  • Arranging filming all over the world

  • Organising visas and carnets

  • Negotiating clearance for archive materials

© Claire Otway 2026

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