Senior Finance Analyst

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As a Senior Finance Analyst in the Account to Report team within Finance Delivery, you’ll help deliver accounting and reporting services to our Commercial Finance customers based in Osterley, Munich & Milan, whilst embracing our culture of continuous improvement to ensure processes are efficient and effective.

What you'll do:

• Review quarterly disclosures for one of Sky Finance’s reporting areas
• Manage the accounting and reporting for a complex business area with demanding stakeholders
• Maintain a strong, robust and well-designed control environment and critically review their operation
• Be the first point of escalation for both internal and external audit and support complex audit issues
• Initiate and drive continuous improvement projects such are report automation and standardisation
• Ensure the team have stretching but achievable workloads and objectives and continually review their workload
• Support FC’s as necessary in delivering the department’s strategic goals
• Lead projects to ensure Finance Delivery requirements are met

What you'll bring:

An experienced General Ledger Accountant who can successfully navigate a large organisation. A self-motivated and conscientious team player who is keen to forge a career in finance. If adding value in your role gets you out of bed then this is the role for you:

• An experienced, qualified accountant (CA, ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Strong IT skills, particularly using Excel and Powerpoint
• General ledger experience
• Proven track record of Continuous Improvements and leading the change agenda
• SAP system knowledge desirable
• People management or coaching capabilities

Team Overview:

Finance Delivery

We enable Sky to succeed by ensuring we are a cost-effective, scalable operation delivering great service in an agile and responsive way. Sky Finance has a deserved reputation for being at the heart of Sky’s success - making things Simple by Design, finding the Win-Win for our business and customers, and working as one team.

The rewards:

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of 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.