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Finance Graduate Programme (Osterley)

Employer
Sky
Location
Osterley, West London (GB)
Salary
Competitive + fantastic perks + CIMA study support
Closing date
Nov 8, 2020

Job Details

Whizz with numbers? Join our finance team and be right at the heart of all the action. Dive right into exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.

Find out first-hand what it’s like to be an Accountant for a leading entertainment brand. Commercial Finance influences key business decisions. Support new product launches. Advise on whether we should invest in a new TV show or a game-changing piece of technology. Manage company-wide budgets and gain experience in our Corporate Finance team. And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky. 

What you’ll be doing 

You’ll go on three, year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales, and strategy. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants. 

Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets. 

You’ll have our full support to study for your CIMA qualification.

Programme facts

  • This role is based in Osterley, west London
  • Programme duration is 3 years, rolling off into a permanent position
  • Expected start is February 2021. 

How you’ll grow and be supported

  • Be Brilliant – How? We give you freedom. Support. The chance to try things your way – forging your ideal career path, or developing something totally new. It means you can do more. Make an impact. Get noticed. And it means with the right attitude, anything’s possible.
  • Your Sky Journey – At Sky, we accelerate you through high-impact and seamless learning. You will become a dynamic, vibrant, and collaborative leader here. We will support you throughout your 3-year journey here with skills labs, bit size videos and virtual classroom learning sessions.
  • Digital Development – Whenever you want it. Access 3,000 LinkedIn Learning courses at a time that suits you. We’ll suggest courses that we think are key, then it’s over to you.
  • Support Network – Whatever path you choose we’ll be right there with you. You’ll get to team up with a grad or apprentice who’s been there and done it and have a manager who’ll stretch and guide you to where you want to go. All this plus the support of the Early Careers team who will be on hand from your first day through to the start of your post scheme career journey.

What we’re looking for

The one essential requirement is that you’re a graduate, or soon will be. It doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in your passion for numbers and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team. 

Other skills we’re looking for include:

  • Commercially minded and a problem-solver 
  • Collaborative and great with people   
  • A self-starter, eager to drive change in an exciting and dynamic environment. 

Your application journey

First, complete our short application form by entering your details and academic information. Once your application has been submitted, you will be invited (so look out for our email, you may need to check your junk mail just in case) to our immersive digital assessments. Your programme requires two digital assessments to be completed prior to shortlisting to the assessment centre. 

The first digital assessment looks at your behavioural and cognitive strengths through several questions. The second digital assessment will be a numerical reasoning test. In the last digital assessment, you will be required to review various sets of information and be asked questions related to this. Part of this stage will include a recorded video interview. But don’t worry there will be practice round. 

The final stage of your application will be a (surprise, digital) assessment day You’ll have the opportunity to impress us through a variety of tasks, which may include a group discussion, an individual interview, and smaller programme related exercises.

Once you’ve completed your assessment day, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us.

Why Inclusion is important

It’s our people that make Sky Europe’s leading entertainment company. That’s why we work hard to be an inclusive employer, so everyone at Sky can be their best. CV’s aren’t everything. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential what you’ll bring to Sky. 

We celebrate diversity because different people, with different perspectives make Sky a better business. Our customers are incredibly diverse, so we should be, too. 

So why wait?  

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

The current closing date for applications is 8th November 2020. But things move quickly around here, so apply now to avoid disappointment. 

If you are successful in your application for this role, your appointment will be subject to receiving a positive outcome from your Criminal Record Check.

Company

Working for Sky

Think innovation. Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK’s favourite triple play provider – TV, broadband and telephony. Now in over 10 million households we entertain, excite and inspire customers with the combination of great content and great innovation. This is the driving force behind our growth as we strive to be the UK’s no. 1 choice in entertainment and communications.

Delivering Sky’s mix of TV that people love, pioneering technology, award-winning customer service and superfast broadband is a real team effort. Across our business, whether in front of the camera or behind the scenes, we’re working really hard to deliver brilliant entertainment, products and services to our customers. But we want to be better. So we’re also doing all we can to attract bright, talented people like you to join us.

Come to Sky and you’ll be part of a fast-paced business that’s changing the game for the entire industry. We’re launching new channels, like Sky Movies Disney and F1; getting record viewing figures for Sky Sports; bringing on board some incredible brand ambassadors in David Beckham and Jessica Ennis-Hill; and investing in exciting home-grown shows like “Game Changers” and “Moone Boy”. Not to mention blazing a trail for technology development with our Sky Go Extra platform and Sky apps.

As well as your dedication, your energy and optimism will help you succeed here. You can rely on Sky people to be as committed and passionate as you about making things better for customers and colleagues so we look forward to you joining the people behind Sky.

Sky Finance Team

At Sky, our 10million+ customers are at the heart of everything we do. So, whether we’re creating must-see content, great new products or award-winning services like our Broadband and Talk, we rely on our financial experts to help us deliver more.

In our drive to build the best Finance team in Britain, we want to run a world-class service (efficient and effective), ready for new challenges. We look to provide our business with commercial and winning insight.  Seizing on better ways of doing things, our team adds value and increase efficiency at every turn.

We strive to get the best out of the best people, through providing great development and progression. We’re award winning, and recent recognition includes Blue-chip Finance Team of the year.

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