Assistant Financial Analyst (FTC-12 months)

Role overview

As a Assistant Finance Analyst within the Account to Report team, you will deliver high-quality accounting and reporting services while supporting a strong financial control environment.

You will take ownership of defined accounting areas, working closely with Finance Analysts and Senior Finance Analysts to deliver accurate period-end reporting, understand financial performance and ensure balance sheet accounts are appropriately reconciled and supported.

The role provides an opportunity to develop broad financial accounting experience while building relationships across Finance and the wider business and contributing to Sky's continuous improvement and finance transformation agenda.

What you’ll do

• Perform period-end close activities, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, with support from Finance Analysts and Senior Finance Analysts where required.
• Take ownership of defined P&L and Balance Sheet areas, understanding the underlying transactions and key financial movements.
• Prepare and review journal entries, ensuring they are accurate, appropriately supported and posted within agreed deadlines.
• Complete and maintain Balance Sheet reconciliations in accordance with Sky policies, proactively investigating and resolving reconciling items.
• Review financial performance and provide clear and insightful variance commentary for assigned areas.
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders across Finance and the wider business, acting as a point of contact for your accounting areas.
• Support internal and external audit activity, responding directly to audit queries and ensuring appropriate supporting evidence is available.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment, ensuring processes are appropriately documented, compliant and well governed.
• Support continuous improvement, including automation, process simplification and standardization of reporting and accounting activities.
• Participate in finance transformation initiatives and other ad-hoc projects as required.
• Provide support and coaching to outsourced partners

What you'll bring

Essential Criteria

• Relevant recent experience supporting month-end close within a General Ledger/accounting environment.
• A good understanding of double-entry accounting, P&L and Balance Sheet accounting.
• Ability to take ownership of an end-to-end accounting area with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to investigate financial movements and identify the underlying causes of variances.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience contributing to continuous improvement and identifying opportunities to improve or automate processes.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
• SAP experience is desirable.
• Ideally studying towards a professional accountancy qualification such as ACCA, CIMA or ICAS.

Benefits and perks

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
• Private healthcare with mental health support
• Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
• Sharesave and Tech schemes
• A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work

At Sky, we want to be a community that thrives by being together. Flexible working remains a key part of that. We want our people to have the best of both worlds – time working at home, as well as time in the office.

The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the Livingston, Scotland office per week.

Your office base

Livingston

Sky Watermark is our central site for Livingston, sitting between Glasgow and Edinburgh. With vibrant office spaces, chill-out areas, and an onsite canteen, it’s a great place to work and connect.

The nearest train station is Livingston North. A Sky shuttle bus runs between the station and campus every 20 minutes throughout the day. Plus, there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're 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 as early as you can.

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.

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.

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