Join our team at Sony Europe BV in Weybridge, UK, as an SGA and FP&A Expert! This position is crucial for providing top-tier financial planning, analysis, and management of our SGA expenses. You'll offer valuable insights to back business decisions and work alongside our driven team to promote financial excellence.
The role manages key activities across budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting, providing high-quality analysis and insight to support business decision-making and delivery of financial objectives. The position acts as a key finance partner to functional cost owners, providing constructive challenge and supporting effective cost management.
This role includes daily oversight of offshore finance resources involved in SGA activities. It ensures timely, high-quality delivery and supports workflow improvements, mechanization, and finance transformation projects.
You will:
Coordinate and deliver annual budgeting, long-range planning and monthly forecasting activities for Fixed SGA.
Analyse actual performance against budget and forecast, identifying key drivers, trends, risks and opportunities.
Provide high-quality management reporting, financial modelling and actionable insights to support decision-making.
Partner with functional cost owners to challenge assumptions, improve forecast accuracy and support delivery against financial targets.
Deliver accurate general ledger accounting, financial reporting and balance sheet management for assigned Fixed SGA areas.
Coordinate and review month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities, including journals, accruals, provisions, reconciliations and other accounting adjustments.
Ensure financial information and supporting documentation meet Corporate Accounting Policy, control, statutory, tax and audit requirements.
Serve as a primary finance liaison to functional cost owners, offering financial insight, mentorship and constructive challenge.
Translate financial performance, risks and opportunities into clear recommendations and cost-management actions.
Provide day-to-day functional direction and technical guidance to offshore finance resources supporting Fixed SGA processes.
Monitor offshore performance against agreed KPIs, SLAs and quality standards, escalating issues where required.
Proactively identify and implement opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate SGA accounting and FP&A processes.
Act as a subject-matter expert for Fixed SGA within finance transformation, system implementation and process-change initiatives.
You will bring:
A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or international equivalent) or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Demonstrated proficiency in accounting, FP&A, controlling or a related finance role within a complex multinational organisation.
Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, management reporting and balance sheet management.
Good knowledge of IFRS, financial controls and accounting governance.
Strong analytical and financial-modelling skills, with the ability to translate financial information into actionable business insight.
Demonstrable business-partnering experience, including constructively challenging assumptions and influencing stakeholders.
Experience coordinating offshore/BPO finance activities and driving performance without formal line-management authority.
Experience in finance transformation, process improvement, automation or systems implementation.
Advanced Excel skills and strong ERP/reporting-system experience.
Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
Highly self-driven, proactive and able to independently manage priorities and deliver complex activities with limited supervision.
Desirable:
Experience overseeing international payroll accounting processes, with an understanding of payroll accounting, reconciliations, provisions, financial controls and the coordination of payroll activities across multiple countries.
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