Senior Specialist - Business Finance

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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