SGA and FP&A Manager

Sony; Weybridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite gym

Canteen facilities

Staff car park with EV charging

Job summary

Sony Europe in Weybridge seeks a Senior SGA FP&A Manager to lead budgeting, forecasting, and month-end processes for fixed SGA. You will drive financial governance, partner with cost owners, and deliver high-quality reporting and insights for senior leadership.

Role requires a professional accounting qualification and substantial FP&A leadership experience in a complex multinational, with strong IFRS knowledge and advanced Excel/ERP skills. Hybrid working options may apply in a global company.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA, CIMA or international equivalent).
• Post-qualification experience in accounting, FP&A or related finance leadership role.
• Experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting in a multinational organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budget, long-range planning and monthly forecasts for Fixed SGA expenses.
• Lead monthly performance reviews with analysis of actual vs budget/forecast.
• Partner with cost owners to challenge assumptions and improve forecast accuracy.
• Deliver management reporting, financial modelling, scenario analysis and insights for senior leadership.
• Oversee general ledger accounting, financial reporting and balance sheet management for Fixed SGA.
• Manage monthly/quarterly/annual close processes.
• Develop and motivate FP&A and Accounting team; set objectives and KPIs.
• Govern outsourced finance activities with KPIs and SLAs; drive service improvements.
• Provide constructive commercial financial insight to senior leaders.
• Provide IFRS guidance and ensure compliance with accounting policies and tax.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

SAP

Job description

The SGA and FP&A Manager leads financial planning, analysis, accounting, and financial control for Selling, General and Administrative (SGA) expenses ensuring accurate financial reporting, effective cost management and robust financial governance.

The role owns the budgeting, forecasting and month end performance cycle for Fixed SGA, providing high-quality analysis, insight and challenge to support business decision making and delivery of financial objectives.

The position serves as a strategic finance partner to business leaders and functional cost owners, providing actionable insights and driving operational efficiency and cost optimization across the organisation to achieve financial objectives.

You will:

• Be responsible for the annual budget and long-range planning and monthly forecasting processes for Fixed SGA expenses, ensuring alignment with business and corporate objectives.
• Lead monthly financial performance reviews, providing clear analysis of actual performance against budget and forecast and identifying key drivers, trends, risks and opportunities.
• Partner with functional cost owners to challenge assumptions, improve forecast accuracy and drive delivery against financial targets.
• Deliver high-quality management reporting, financial modelling, scenario analysis and actionable insights to support senior leadership decision-making.
• Lead the delivery of accurate and complete general ledger accounting, financial reporting and balance sheet management for Fixed SGA.
• Own the monthly, quarterly and annual close processes, ensuring activities are planned, communicated and delivered in accordance with the reporting timetable.
• Lead, develop and motivate the Fixed SGA FP&A and Accounting team, setting clear objectives, responsibilities, deliverables and performance expectations aligned with business priorities.
• Own the governance and performance management of outsourced finance activities, monitoring BPO service delivery through KPIs, SLAs, quality measures and benchmarks, and driving corrective action and continuous service improvement.
• Act as a trusted finance advisor to senior business leaders and functional cost owners, providing constructive challenge and commercially focused financial insight.
• Provide technical accounting guidance and ensure compliance with IFRS, Corporate Accounting Policy, tax, legal, statutory, branch reporting and audit requirements.
• Drive process standardisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives for onshore and offshore activities to enhance efficiency, control and reporting quality.
• Lead Fixed SGA workstream in system, process and entity integrations while maintaining group and statutory compliance.

You will bring:

• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or international equivalent).
• Significant post-qualification experience in accounting, FP&A or a related finance leadership role.
• Significant experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and management reporting within a complex multinational organisation, with a proven ability to translate financial performance into actionable business insight.
• Demonstrable experience leading finance transformation, process improvement, automation or systems implementation initiatives.
• Excellent commercial awareness and business partnering capability.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills.
• Experience managing, coaching and developing finance professionals and driving team performance.
• Experience managing outsourced finance operations and BPO providers service delivery against KPIs and service-level agreements.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, financial controls and balance sheet management.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong experience with ERP, financial planning and reporting tools; experience with SAP and Power BI highly desirable.
• Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista-style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times.

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about.

You can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team.

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [e-mail] or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, The Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.