Episode 99: Hilary Wagner, VP Production Finance, CBS
Hilary is the Vice President of Production Finance at CBS Studios. Here’s a story about how the entertainment industry lures you in. If your first couple of jobs are Seinfeld and Waiting for Guffman, are you really going back to corporate audit? Of course not.
Hilary tells her story of how she worked her way up through production accounting, to production finance on the studio side with a brief stint in the production department.
She’s now at the point in her career where leadership and mentorship has become as important as getting the numbers right. It’s legacy time, and when you can see big trends in the industry and are positioned to make a difference, you do.