Finance Controller
Overview:
- Commercial Finance is integral to Sky's success. Our business partnering model is pivotal in our role as trusted advisors to the Executive team and the business. We aspire to be a world-class Commercial Finance team, characterized by our forward-thinking and relentless pursuit of excellence..
- 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 acknowledge that maximizing our team's potential is crucial to our success, offering development, support, and career progression within a diverse, inclusive, and high-performance environment.
What you’ll do
Within the ADV team, the candidate will be responsible for:
- Budget, LRP and rolling reforecast processes across all On Demand revenues (owned and 3rd party) and opex costs
- Monitor Brand solutions costs expenditure and related revenues generated
- Full ownership of Advertising Opex financials at month-end, providing clear explanations for variances, and identifying & managing risks and opportunities
- Responsible for Opex and On Demand business case evaluations
- Delivers insightful ad-hoc financial analysis which creates value – demonstrates good judgement, presentational skills and influencing skills
- Provide Finance Business partnering to Sky Media stakeholders
What you’ll bring
- A track record of delivery and ambition in your career so far and a desire to develop
- A finance Professional with experience in a commercial finance role which includes business partnering and budgeting/planning.
- Strong analytics skills (Microsoft Excel), and experience of preparing analysis, insight and turning into recommendations (Microsoft PowerPoint, Tableau)
- Proficient in finance systems (preferably SAP & Hyperion)
- Fluent in Italian and English
- Ability to work at pace – we work in an agile, fast-moving way at Sky
- Strong communicator able to communicate with both Finance and non-finance stakeholders
Top Skills
What We Do
Sky is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and is part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that connects people to moments and experiences that matter. At Sky, we Believe in Better. It’s in our DNA.
We’re famous for innovation. We offer the world’s smartest TV, Sky Glass; our plug and play streaming puck, Sky Stream; the best aggregation platform, Sky Q; and streaming services NOW and WOW. We provide connectivity you can count on in mobile, fast, secure, reliable residential and business broadband, as well as smart home protection through Sky Protect.
We’re Europe’s premium content producer. We create award-winning original content, produce the biggest live sporting events, and we provide free access to news and the arts.
We believe that we can have a positive impact on society, by supporting and creating tens of thousands of jobs, addressing digital inequality, being a diverse and inclusive employer, and becoming net zero carbon by 2030.
