Finance Apprenticeship in Hounslow

Overview

As a Finance Apprentice, you\’ll dive into exciting projects and learn how finance drives innovation across Sky. From recommending investments in new shows to managing budgets for tech development, you\’ll gain real-world experience while studying for your CIMA qualification.

Responsibilities

• Work in Commercial Finance supporting areas such as content, product and media
• Set budgets, track performance, and support investment decisions
• Analyse data to provide insights that shape business strategy
• Collaborate with teams across Sky to meet financial goals
• Get full support for your studies‑funded exams, study days, and mentoring, while applying accounting principles and adhering to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities (financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships, or management accounting activities for an organisation)
• Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias
• Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for a transaction or undertake ratio analysis
• Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices
• Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data
• Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a \’right‑first‑time\’ approach
• Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively
• Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non‑finance stakeholders
• Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications
• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion
• Collate and analyse financial information to show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation

Qualifications

• Five GCSEs, including English and Maths (grade A‑C)
• Three A‑levels (grade A‑C or equivalent)
• Commercially minded
• Organised and analytical
• Great with people
• A team player
• A self‑starter
• Be above statutory school‑leaver age by August 2026

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Training & Progression

• Delivered by Kaplan, the UK\’s largest accountancy training provider
• You\’ll start with the CIMA Certificate (Level 4) and progress to the CIMA Professional Level (Level 7). Training is flexible – choose from in‑person, live online, or on‑demand learning to suit your style

Company

Sky Plc is a British‑based pan‑European satellite broadcasting, on‑demand Internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company

Benefits

• Free Sky Q (for the TV you love, all in one place)
• A generous pension
• 25 days paid annual leave
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Private health care