Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
Your role will be focused on delivering excellent business partnering through building a deep understanding of the key drivers and dynamics of our business. You'll play a key role in helping Sky to deliver its financials, partnering with business stakeholders to interpret and analyse financial performance, and use your influencing skills to provide recommendations on how to drive more value and deliver on Sky’s ambitious and stretching plans.
In our drive to build the best Finance team in Ireland, our teams support great decisions through quick, clear actionable insight. They want to make it ‘brilliantly easy’ to do Finance, and by seizing better ways of doing things, our team adds value and increases efficiency at every turn. They strive to get the best out of the best people, by providing great development and progression.
What you'll do:
1. Deliver key financial outputs, including budget forecasts, monthly results and strategic long-range plans, for at least 1 distinct business area
2. Evaluate monthly results of pricing strategies, customer acquisition and retention efforts and implementing appropriate actions
3. Build great business partnering relationships with the management team for your business area, being a trusted advisor and being able to both challenge and support with financial mentorship
4. Bring a commercial lens to your insight (outside in) owning how this translates into operational and financial performance
5. Build great relationships across the finance team and wider Sky business
6. Act as ambassador for Sky Finance, both within the business and externally
What you'll bring:
1. A track record of delivery and ambition in your career so far and a desire to develop
2. A Fully Qualified Accountant – CA, ACCA, CIMA
3. Experience delivering the key financial outputs, including the budget and monthly results
4. Experience preparing management reporting and insight
5. An ability to demonstrate experience of the following within a finance role for a large, complex organisation in industry or practice;
6. Ability to work at pace – we work in an agile, fast-moving way at Sky
7. Comfortable with ambiguity – being able to provide clarity in complex situations, and guide decision making
8. A strong eye for detail and knowing your numbers
9. Strong analytics skills (Microsoft Excel, Tableau), and experience of preparing analysis, insight and turning into recommendations
Team Overview
Commercial Finance is at the heart of Sky’s success. Our business partnering model is central to our role as a trusted advisor to the Exec and business. We strive to be a world-class Commercial Finance team - that means we’re forward looking and restless. 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 recognise that getting the best from our team is the key to success, providing excellent development, support and progression in a diverse, inclusive and high-performance environment.
The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
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How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your office base:
Dublin
Our striking Ireland HQ has an A-list location on Burlington Road, walking distance from central Dublin. Grand Canal Dock and Pearse train stations are both around 1.5km away, and we’re a short stroll from the buses of Baggot Street, Leeson Street and Waterloo Road.
Inclusion:
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.
We are 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 to your recruiter as early as you can.
Why wait?
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.
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.
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