Job Description

You\'ll play a key role in helping Sky to deliver its financials, partnering with key business members to interpret and analyse financial performance, and use your influencing skills to provide recommendations on how to drive more value!

What you\'ll do:

• Lead delivery of key financial deliverables, including the budget and monthly results.
• Preparation of management reporting and insight.
• Preparation of accounting analysis and advice for commercial deals or corporate transactions.
• Bring a commercial lens to your insight (outside in) owning how this translates into operational and financial performance
• Build and own strong relationships with the management team for their business area, delivering analysis, reporting, insight and financial guidance. You will often be the most senior finance person in the room.
• Build strong relationships across the finance team and wider Sky business
• Demonstrate finance behaviours
• Lead mentor and coach finance team below SFA level, accountable for delivery through them alongside your own work
• Act as ambassador for Sky Finance, both with the business and externally

What you\'ll bring:

• A track record of delivery and ambition in your career so far and a desire to develop
• Qualified Accountant with over 2 years PQE
• An ability to demonstrate experience of the following within a finance role for a large, complex organisation in industry or practice;
• Ability to work at pace \xe2\x80\x93 we work in an agile, fast-moving way at Sky
• Comfortable with ambiguity \xe2\x80\x93 being able to provide clarity, and guide decision making
• A strong eye for detail and knowing your numbers
• Strong analytics skills (Microsoft Excel), and experience of preparing analysis, insight and turning into recommendations
• Experience in line management and have acted as a mentor and coach to colleagues

Commercial Finance

Commercial Finance is at the heart of Sky\xe2\x80\x99s success. Our business partnering model is central to our role as a trusted advisor to the Exec and business. We strive to be a world-class Commercial Finance team - that means we\xe2\x80\x99re forward looking and restless. Our work provides the support for great decisions and financial out-performance through quick, clear useful insight alongside building best in class analytical and cost transformation capabilities. We recognise that getting the best from our team is the key to success, providing excellent development, support and progression in a diverse, inclusive and high-performance environment!

The Rewards:

There\'s a reason people can\'t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you\'ll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We\'ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You\'ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There\xe2\x80\x99s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you\xe2\x80\x99ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we\xe2\x80\x99ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we\xe2\x80\x99ve committed \xc2\xa330million to support the fight against racial injustice. We\xe2\x80\x99ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky, we don\xe2\x80\x99t just look at your CV. We\xe2\x80\x99re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we\'re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we\'ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Sky Group