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 great business partnering relationships with the management team for your business area, a trusted advisor who can both challenge and support
* Delivering best in class analysis, reporting, insight and financial mentorship
* Deliver detailed analysis and recommendations for commercial deals, business decisions, and investment appraisals / business cases
* Deliver accurate financial planning, including budgeting, rolling forecasts and strategic long-range plans
* Interpretation of and driving action off the back of monthly results, working with our Shared Service Centre who prepare our management accounts
* Managing risks and opportunities for your business area, ensuring numbers are clearly understood
* Mentor and coach junior members of the finance team (including graduates)
What you'll bring:
* ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CPA qualification (or equivalent)
* A track record of delivery and ambition in your career to date with a desire to develop further
* An ability to demonstrate the following from within either industry or practice: Ability to work at pace – we work in an agile, fast-moving environment at Sky.
* Comfort 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 that benefits your business
* Good communication skills through business partnering or client relationship management
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 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:
* 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:
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, 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
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