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Finance
Do you want to be part of a finance team that influences key business decisions 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.
Finance
Start date: 2nd February 2025
£35,000 per annum| 3 years
About this programme
Do you want to be part of a finance team that influences key business decisions 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 a finance professional 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 – with diversity and inclusion networks, paid volunteering days and a supportive graduate community. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky.
What you’ll be doing
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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.
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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.
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You’ll have our full support to study for your CIMA qualification – with fully funded study and exam days and graduate committee guidance. At Sky your team will support you to make sure your exams can be your number one priority.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have or will be graduating soon. 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:
- A problem-solver
- Collaborative and great with people
- A self-starter, eager to drive change in an exciting and dynamic environment
To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.
Status
Application deadline: 13th October 2024 (Please be aware that our applications may close earlier than expected due to high volumes but will close no earlier than 13th October 2024.)
Application journey
Prep Hub
This optional step will help you prepare for our application process — and you can access it before you’ve even applied.
Application
Time to submit your application on our system. We’ll be asking for your personal details, academic information and everything else that you think would be relevant such as work experience. That’s all there is to it.
If we need to make adjustments to make you feel more comfortable at any stage, please let us know when you apply — we’ll be in touch to discuss.
Digital Assessment
Once your application is in, we’ll ask you to complete our immersive digital assessments. They’re mostly situational questions and will also include a video interview. We’ll also ask you to complete a numerical reasoning test.
We understand that you might want to utilise AI to support your preparation for taking the assessments – understanding Sky etc. But we ask that you complete the assessments themselves without the assistance of AI.
Assessment Centre
For the final assessment stage, we’ll invite you to our bespoke virtual assessment centre. You’ll get the opportunity to impress us in person and get a feel for what it’s really like to work at Sky.
The day could include an individual interview, group discussion or individual exercise. We’ll give you plenty of notice and let you know how best to prepare for the day.
We'll be in touch
Once you’ve completed all the assessment steps, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us. Good luck!
What do students think about our digital assessments?
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92%
felt like they were able to answer authentically and to be themselves in the assessment.
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said the assessment provided them with greater insight into Sky.
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Hear from our Finance alumni
Andrew McClintock
Senior Finance Analyst
On the grad scheme you get to experience different areas of Sky in your rotations. And being in finance, at the heart of the business, you gain a great understanding of what Sky does and the industry that we operate in. So you’ll definitely never be short of opportunities to learn and to grow.
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