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About the Role

Sky is establishing a new Finance Processes & Products team to drive simplification, automation, and improved use of platforms, data, and AI across Sky Finance. This role will lead this team, setting the strategy for finance transformation, overseeing major change initiatives, and managing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop the finance transformation strategy & roadmaps for Sky to meet business priorities and drive simplification, automation, operational excellence, and business value.
• Optimize business outcomes through effective end-to-end finance processes, including A2R/R2R, P2P, O2C, and FP&A.
• Maximize value from finance products, platforms, and capabilities, including transactions and financial reporting.
• Identify and leverage emerging technologies, including AI and automation, to transform finance operations, decision-making, and colleague experience.
• Deliver strategic change and transformation initiatives successfully, including ERP upgrades, AI, and data lake initiatives.
• Lead complex business change programmes, ensuring successful adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working across multiple markets and functions.
• Define, lead, and develop the team, and scope and manage third parties.
• Manage a cross-functional portfolio of senior stakeholders including in Finance, Procurement, Technology, HR, Consumer Group, and Media.
• Role model the Sky values: welcoming, creative, simplifying, do the right thing.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant or equivalent.
• Significant experience leading ERP, EPM, and enterprise technology transformations within global organisations.
• Strong ERP and EPM system expertise experience, including ideally SAP, Ariba, AI, datalake.
• Proven experience leading large-scale finance transformation programmes and shaping long-term finance operating models.
• Demonstrated track record of driving process simplification, operational efficiency, and measurable business outcomes, from small continuous improvement to major ERP implementation/upgrade, including waterfall and agile approaches.
• Experience in large complex multinational matrix organisations, especially UK, Italy, US.
• Experience supporting all specialisms across finance including commercial finance, shared services, controllership, etc.
• Proven team management & development.
• Strong executive stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across diverse business functions.
• Appropriate right to work in the UK.
• Must not require sponsorship for this position.

Skills

• SAP
• Ariba
• AI
• Datalake
• Waterfall
• Agile

Location

• Osterley
• Livingston

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Director

Education Level

• Qualified accountant or equivalent

About the Company

• Sky is a leading media and entertainment company connecting millions with entertainment, sports, news, and arts through innovative products and services.
• We aim to bring the joy of a better experience to more people, every day, to do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues, and society.

Equal Opportunity

• We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
• We're 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.
• Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.
• If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. Depending on the role and the nature of any convictions, we might have to withdraw the offer.