Finishing Editor

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.  

Working closely with Finishing Editors, Senior Colourists, Post Producers and Sky’s wider craft teams, you’ll play a key role in delivering polished, transmission-ready content to the highest broadcast standards. Blending strong technical expertise with creative judgement, you’ll help shape the final look and feel of a broad range of programming—continuing to develop and refine your craft across both long-form and short-form work.

A core part of the role is building trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders. You’ll be confident running attended sessions, interpreting creative briefs, managing expectations and translating feedback into exceptional final outputs. You’ll thrive both independently and collaboratively, balancing creative ambition with technical precision to ensure seamless finishing workflows and consistently excellent delivery.

What you’ll do: 

• Deliver high-quality online edits, colour grades and finished masters across Sky’s Arts, Factual, Current Affairs, Sport and short-form content.

• Confidently run attended finishing and grading sessions, translating creative briefs and feedback into polished final outputs.

• Perform broadcast-standard online editing tasks including conforms, editorial fine-tuning, re-versioning, stabilisation, basic VFX and clean-up.

• Prepare and manage content across SDR, HDR and UHD workflows, ensuring readiness for colour, audio and final delivery.

• Rebuild and manage conforms using Avid, Baselight and DaVinci Resolve, maintaining accurate relinks, media integrity and metadata.

• Carry out detailed technical QC across picture, graphics, captions and standards compliance, flagging issues early with clear solutions.

• Deliver final masters for broadcast, OTT, international and screening outputs, including Colorfront where required.

• Collaborate closely with offline edit, audio, post production, edit ops and senior craft colleagues to ensure smooth end-to-end delivery.

What you’ll bring: 

• Strong working knowledge of Baselight, with DaVinci Resolve experience ideally gained in a broadcast or high-end post-production environment.

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality colour grades and online edits that meet creative briefs with minimal supervision.

• Solid understanding of HDR workflows, colour science, LUTs, colour spaces and common camera formats.

• Excellent attention to detail and the technical confidence to troubleshoot colour, media and pipeline issues.

• A calm, professional and solutions-focused approach when working directly with clients and stakeholders.

• Strong organisation and time management skills, comfortable handling parallel projects and tight deadlines.

• Experience working in a fast-paced broadcast or facility environment with frequent changes and quick turnarounds.

• Evidence within the last 12 months of at least three episodic colour grades and three episodic online edits at mainstream broadcast standard.

Team overview: 

Sky Production Services

Sky Production Services is the home of content creation and innovation for Sky and beyond. We provide outstanding facilities and talent for storytellers, including Studios, Post Production and other content production resources. We want to give our customers the best viewing experience, from the picture they see, the sound they hear to the entertainment, sports or news programme they choose to watch.  

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.  

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’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers. 

On campus, you’ll 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: 

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re 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.  

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. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.  

Why wait?  

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.  

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about. 

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.