FP&A & SGA Expert — Hybrid & Global Impact

Sony Corporate Technology Center America; Weybridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Wellbeing services

Learning and development programmes

Job summary

Sony Europe BV in Weybridge, UK is seeking an SGA and FP&A Expert to lead budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting for fixed SGA, delivering high-quality insights to guide business decisions. You will partner with cost owners to challenge assumptions and drive cost management.

The role also oversees offshore finance resources, supports finance transformation, automation and process improvements, and ensures robust governance and IFRS compliance across the SGA portfolio.

Qualifications

• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or international equivalent) or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in accounting, FP&A, controlling or a related finance role within a complex multinational organisation.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, management reporting and balance sheet management.
• Good knowledge of IFRS, financial controls and accounting governance.
• Strong analytical and financial-modelling skills, with the ability to translate financial information into actionable business insight.
• Demonstrable business-partnering experience, including constructively challenging assumptions and influencing stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating offshore/BPO finance activities and driving performance without formal line-management authority.
• Experience in finance transformation, process improvement, automation or systems implementation.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong ERP/reporting-system experience.
• Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Highly self-driven, proactive and able to independently manage priorities and deliver complex activities with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate budgeting, long-range planning and monthly forecasting activities for Fixed SGA.
• Analyse actual performance against budget and forecast, identifying key drivers, trends, risks and opportunities.
• Provide high-quality management reporting, financial modelling and actionable insights to support decision-making.
• Partner with functional cost owners to challenge assumptions, improve forecast accuracy and support delivery against financial targets.
• Deliver accurate general ledger accounting, financial reporting and balance sheet management for assigned Fixed SGA areas.
• Coordinate and review month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities, including journals, accruals, provisions, reconciliations and other accounting adjustments.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Management reporting

Advanced Excel

ERP systems

Power BI

Stakeholder management

Financial modelling

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or international equivalent

Tools

SAP

Power BI

ERP reporting systems

Job description

Sony Europe BV in Weybridge, UK is seeking an SGA and FP&A Expert to lead budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting for fixed SGA, delivering high-quality insights to guide business decisions. You will partner with cost owners to challenge assumptions and drive cost management.

The role also oversees offshore finance resources, supports finance transformation, automation and process improvements, and ensures robust governance and IFRS compliance across the SGA portfolio.