Senior Specialist - Cost Controller

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

• 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