Senior Finance Analyst

Job ID: R0057321

Location

Livingston, West Lothian

Hours/week

37.5 hrs/week

Payrate range

Unknown

Role/Team overview

We enable Sky to deliver accurate and compliant financial and external reporting, ensuring all key deadlines are met while maintaining high-quality standards. Acting as a centre of excellence, the team manages a portfolio of approximately 100 entities and supports a broad range of accounting and reporting activities across the business.

Our scope includes monthly and quarterly reporting cycles, external reporting obligations, and involvement in corporate initiatives such as entity rationalisation, restructuring, and other ad-hoc projects.

We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in audit or significant experience partnering with auditors, who can take ownership of delivering accurate, compliant financial reporting. You will play a key role in driving reporting quality, leading stakeholder relationships, and supporting continuous improvement across statutory and external reporting processes.

What you’ll do:

Support on the external audit process, liaising with the auditors and helping to ensure that the process is handled efficiently and effectively

Prepare a portfolio of financial statements and manage them through audit, responding to queries and co-ordinating inputs

Review financial statements prepared, ensuring a consistent high quality of output

Co-ordinate on our goals with multiple stakeholders across different finance teams in order to drive effectiveness and ensure targets are hit

Support on our month-end and quarter-end requirements, including our balance sheet ongoing reporting process

Own ongoing processes in an organised manner, such as contractual commitments and other regular reporting areas

Work on ad-hoc projects as they arise, such as one-off accounting / corporate actions, working with other teams to ensure that objectives are achieved

What you'll bring:

Essential criteria:

2+ years PQE (ACA, CA, ACCA or equivalent)

Significant experience of statutory reporting and double entry accounting

Significant audit experience or experience working through the statutory audit process

Strong IT skills, particularly using Excel and PowerPoint

Communication and time management skills, working with multiple stakeholders

Desirable skills and experience:

SAP system knowledge

Benefits and perks

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

Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema

Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution

Private healthcare with mental health support

Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance

Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect

Sharesave and Tech schemes

A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the office per week.

Your office base

Livingston

Sky Watermark is our central site for Livingston, sitting between Glasgow and Edinburgh. With vibrant office spaces, chill-out areas, and an onsite canteen, it’s a great place to work and connect.

The nearest train station is Livingston North. A Sky shuttle bus runs between the station and campus every 20 minutes throughout the day. Plus, there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

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.

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.