Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

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

What you'll do:

• Build and own strong relationships with the management team for your business area.; delivering analysis, reporting, insight and financial guidance.  You will often be the most senior finance person in the room.
• Financial lead for key deliverables, including budget, long range plan 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 strong relationships across the finance team and wider Sky business
• Manage, mentor and coach finance teams 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:

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CPA qualification (or equivalent) with more than 2 years PQE
• A track record of delivery and ambition in your career to date and a desire to develop further
• An ability to demonstrate experience of the following for a complex organisation, either in industry or practice;

• Show keen commercial acumen when presented with complex problems
• Ability to work at pace – we work in an agile, fast-moving environment at Sky
• Comfortable with ambiguity – being able to provide clarity, and guide decision making
• A strong eye for detail and a deep knowledge of the numbers you are responsible for
• Ability to maintain a strong financial control environment
• Strong analytical skills (Microsoft Excel), experience of preparing analysis, delivering insight and turning this into recommendations
• Good communication skills through business partnering or client relationship management
• Experience in line management, acting as a mentor and coach to colleagues

Team Overview

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 - that means we’re 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.

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:

• Free Sky TV including Entertainment, Sports and Movies- for the TV you love all in one place
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare

Where you'll work:

Our Osterley campus in West London 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, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.

On campus you’ll find numerous subsidised restaurants 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:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. 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 are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 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.

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.