Finance Analyst

You'll play a key role in helping Sky to deliver its financials, partnering with business team members 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 great business partnering relationships with the management team for your business area, being a trusted advisor and being able to both challenge and support
• Delivering best in class analysis, reporting, insight and financial mentorship
• Deliver detailed analysis and recommendations for commercial deals, business decision, and investment appraisals / cases
• Deliver accurate financial planning deliverables, including budgeting, rolling forecasts, and strategic long-range plans
• Interpretation, and driving actions off the back of monthly results, working with our Actuals Reporting Team who prepare our management accounts
• Handle risks and opportunities for your business area, ensuring ‘no surprises’

What you'll bring:

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CPA qualification (or equivalent)
• 2:1 Degree (or equivalent)
• A track record of delivery and ambition in your career so far and a desire to develop
• An ability to demonstrate experience of the following within a finance role for a large, complex organisation in industry or practice
• Delivering the financial deliverables, including budgeting / forecasting, and monthly results. Experience in commercial business partnering and influencing senior team members
• Ability to work at pace – we work in an agile, fast-moving way at Sky
• Comfortable with ambiguity – being able to provide clarity, and guide decision making
• A strong eye for detail and knowing your numbers
• Strong analytics skills (Microsoft Excel), and experience of preparing analysis, insight and turning into recommendations

Commercial Finance 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 practical 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:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive 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: Dunfermline Inclusion: We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation. 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. 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 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.