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Finance Analyst/Senior Finance Analyst, 12-months FTC
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Finance Analyst/Senior Finance Analyst, 12-months FTC
Finance Analyst (L6/L7)
Sub Department: Commercial Finance Employment Type: Fixed Term – Full Time Location: London (Osterley, Sky campus)
About the Role
As a Finance Analyst within the Content & Platform Finance team, you will drive financial clarity for content investment and platform costs, offering actionable insights to inform strategic decisions. You will take ownership of reporting, forecasting, and cross-functional analysis to optimise performance, mitigate risks, and support both short-term execution and long-term planning.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Month-End
- Own and deliver the Content & Platform month-end close process with accuracy and deadlines.
- Provide concise commentary on performance, explaining key variances vs. plan.
- Produce targeted cost-area reports for deeper analysis.
Forecasting & Planning
- Partner in forecasting and budgeting, owning designated P&L components.
- Maintain proprietary financial models: some assumptions may kickstart conversations or raise red flags.
- Proactively track forecast vs. actual performance, identifying risks and opportunities.
Content & Commercial Analysis
- Analyse content performance and cost efficiency, diagnosing trends and inefficiencies.
- Translate data into actionable recommendations to optimise investment decisions.
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Business Partnering
- Collaborate across finance and commercial teams to build trust-based relationships.
- Distill financial data into clear, actionable insights—dissolving jargon for non-finance leaders.
- Provide rigorous yet constructive challenges, supporting better decision-making.
Process Improvement
- Continuously identify reporting automation opportunities and workflow simplifications.
- Advocate for higher data integrity and accuracy standards.
Communication & Insight
- Present complex analysis with clarity (written + verbal feedback).
- Tailor communication style for audience sophistication from executives to frontline teams.
- Prioritise impactful interference: dig for hidden insights over surface-level summaries.
What You’ll Bring
This is a newly qualified (or part-qualified) commercial finance role:
- Experience working in a commercially driven finance team (streaming/content expertise would be nice, but not critical).
- Innate facility for insightful analysis and value creation.
- JudgementÜ, stellar political and oral skills (challenging data feeds into confidence-building advice).
- A multi-tasking swimmer—comfort with moving from content metrics to balance-sheet spreadsheets as needed, Patriot for "looking beyond the toolbar".
- Strategic flexibility: proactively questions for revenue-rendering understanding, not just coverage.
- Collaborative hustle: brings colleagues and customers along on the arc.
- Bias for action (no writer’s block: measurements crack assumptions).
- 10/10 attention to detail—your costs and budgets will be watertight.
- Thrives in structured autonomy: owning execution in embrace of team coordination.
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Where You’ll Work
A hybrid model with 2–3 days office-based, prioritising Mondays & Thursdays for alignment (flexible on the third day to suit team demands).
Primary campus location: Sky’s Osterley HQ, 10 mins from Syon Lane station.
- Transportation: Free shuttle buses link Osterley with Chiswick Park/Acton/Ealing Broadway/Gunnersbury tube hubs.
- On-campus amenities: Parking, branded bike lockers, post-shift showers/saddles (Switch mode accessible,frequency-fashion).
- On-site rewards: Staff-subsidised SkyFood restaurants, Waitrose, Electric Showroom, beauty gym, cinema, dual-spur car wash.
Locomotion selector: Pied (Train: 0.8”), bicycle (0.6, sensing free loans?), or car (provisioned, or pitched parking).
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