Group Financial Accountant, Inventory and Variable SGA in Weybridge

Location: Weybridge

Sony Europe are eagerly seeking a talented & career-driven individual who is keen to learn, grow, and make a real impact in a multi-national, dynamic & global business. Our friendly, fast-paced and collaborative finance team is home to where you’ll play an important role in keeping our numbers accurate, insightful, and impactful. As the Accounting Expert for Inventory & SG&A, you’ll take ownership of key reporting areas, ensuring everything adds up whilst also helping the business to understand what the numbers really mean, and how they can make best use of them.

You’ll work with diverse teams across Europe, building strong relationships and getting involved in more than just the day-to-day accounting. There’s plenty of opportunity to improve how things are done, get involved in innovative automation projects, and work with large, complex data sets to spot trends and identify issues (before they arise!). We feel this role would be ideal for an individual with a strong technical accounting background, looking for more commercial exposure and who enjoys a varied mix of technical accounting and business partnering, or for somebody looking to gain experience in the Media & Technology industry at a leading brand.

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage inventory and SG&A accounting including costing, stock valuation, write-downs, in-transit goods, duties & levies, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Lead month-end close and reporting cycles, ensuring accurate P&L and Balance Sheet results, and clear variance analysis against budget and forecast.
• Review and approve journal entries, accruals, and provisions, including work from offshore teams, ensuring compliance with corporate accounting policies and IFRS.
• Partner with business stakeholders across Europe, building relationships and providing financial insight to support decision-making.
• Support process improvements and automation initiatives, helping to standardise procedures and enhance efficiency across the business.
• Ensure governance and compliance, liaising with statutory and compliance teams, maintaining controls, and supporting senior management reporting.

Your qualifications:

• Part Qualified/Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or Qualified by experience)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel ability
• Demonstrable extensive inventory management and associated tasks within a relevant industry in a large, complex, fast-paced environment.
• A Pro-active, independent approach to work with a desire to bring new ideas and challenge status quo.
• Impressive data & analytics skills (capacity to build dashboard / manage large set of data / Power-bi & Power Pivot)
• Strong business-partnering skills (collaboration, communication & a natural drive to take projects forward)
• Experience of working with complex Accounting & Finance software tools e.g. SAP/Oracle

Your new office:

Weybridge. Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport, we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.

Life at Sony:

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture. We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony:

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

Equal Opportunity:

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe:

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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