Senior Assistant Accountant

Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/5/2024

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 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.

As a Senior Assistant Accountant in the Account to Report team within Finance Delivery, you'll help deliver accounting and reporting services to our Commercial Finance customers based in Osterley, Munich & Milan, whilst embracing our culture of continuous improvement to ensure processes are efficient and effective.

What You'll Do

• Performance of period end close activities, providing insightful and accurate reporting with minimal FA/SFA support
• Deliver more complex pieces of work and support projects where appropriate
• Work autonomously to manage P&L and Balance Sheet accounts, reconciling balances in line with Sky's policies.
• Own and lead all P&L and BS calls with Commercial Finance for your area
• Build lasting relationships with key stakeholder
• Continuous improvement projects such as report automation and standardisation
• Assisting with internal and external audit queries, liaising directly with the auditors for your areas
• Have end to end ownership of a set of Statutory Accounts
• Ensure that your controls are designed and operating effectively
• Ad-hoc project work, as and when required
• Provides support to more Assistant Accountants as necessary
  
  

What you'll bring:

An experienced Assistant Accountant who can successfully navigate a large organisation. A self-motivated and conscientious team player who is keen to forge a career in finance.

• Be able to demonstrate the ability to work within the GL team on an end to end area with minimal support
• Track record of delivering continuous improvement
• Proficient in MS Office (particularly Excel)
• Good problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail
• SAP system knowledge desirable
• Ideally would be studying towards a professional accountancy qualification
  
  

The Rewards:

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
  
  

Team overview:

Finance Delivery

We enable Sky to succeed by ensuring we are a cost effective, scalable operation delivering great service in an agile and responsive way. Sky Finance has a deserved reputation for being at the heart of Sky's success - making things Simple by Design, finding the Win-Win for our business and customers, and working as One-Team.

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

Livingston Watermark House

Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston North train station and the town centre. Plus there's onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Inclusion

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we've been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we've committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We've also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

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.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you.

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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.