About the Role
Play a key role in helping Sky deliver its financials by partnering with business stakeholders to interpret and analyze financial performance, and provide recommendations on how to drive more value.
Responsibilities
- Build strong business partnering relationships with the management team for your business area, acting as a trusted advisor.
- Deliver high-quality analysis, reporting, and financial insight, driving action from monthly results.
- Partner with the Shared Service Centre responsible for management accounts.
- Produce detailed analysis and clear recommendations to support commercial deals, business decisions, and investment appraisals/business cases.
- Own accurate financial planning processes, including budgeting, rolling forecasts, and strategic long-range plans.
- Manage risks and opportunities for your business area, ensuring financial numbers are clearly understood.
- Mentor and coach junior members of the finance team.
Requirements
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CPA qualification (or equivalent).
- 2:1 Degree (or equivalent).
- A track record of delivery and ambition in your career to date with a desire to develop further.
- Ability to work at pace in an agile, fast-moving environment.
- Comfort with ambiguity, providing clarity and guiding decision-making.
- A strong eye for detail and deep knowledge of financial responsibilities.
- Ability to maintain a strong financial control environment.
- Strong analytical skills (Microsoft Excel).
- Experience of preparing analysis, delivering insight, and translating it into actionable recommendations.
- Good communication skills through business partnering or client relationship management.
Skills
- Financial analysis
- Reporting
- Financial planning
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Excel
- Business partnering
- Client relationship management
- Communication
Location
- Osterley
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Degree
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CPA qualification
Benefits
- Sky Q
- Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- Generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
About the Company
- Europe's leading media and entertainment brand.
- A workplace where you can proudly be yourself.
- Commercial Finance is at the heart of Sky’s 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 - forward looking and restless.
- Our work provides the support for great decisions and financial out-performance through quick, clear actionable 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates.
- We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate.
