• Job Description

  Req#: JR-115940

  If you have good experience as an Assistant Business Controller and enjoy working at pace, you’ll thrive in this diverse, exciting and richly rewarding finance role.

  You’ll become a key business partner for Sony, providing the data that drives our decision-making in profitability, solvency, stability and liquidity.

  Reporting to the Branch Controller, you will monitor and analyse financial & accounting information to help the company make well-informed decisions, write reports and monitor accounting movements.

  You will be a partner to European management and will work closely with the Business Groups to implement actions that optimise results for the region, driving continuous improvement in financial planning, and promoting an environment based on trust, teamwork, initiative and innovation.

  You will:

  • Provide financial and analytical support for the accounting, forecasting, and budgeting processes.

  • Provide timely, relevant, and accurate reporting & analysis of the results of the division’s performance against historical, budgeted and forecasted information.
  • Effective control and monitoring of costs and IT CAPEX activities.
  • Support month-end and year-end processes.
  • Liaise with GISC Service managers where there are significant variances between budget and actuals.
  • Liaise with the central finance team to ensure that accruals, reclassifications and prepayments are booked correctly and on time.
  • Review and ensure that all purchase orders are raised within budget and are using the correct coding
  • Support Billing and Sales processes with different customers in Sony Europe and other Sony entities globally which includes preparing and/or reviewing Master Service Agreements with customers
  • Support in the GISC FTE/HC Analysis Reporting
  • Prepare ad-hoc analysis and reports, charts, tables and other exhibits as requested
  • Train and supervise junior staff members

  You will bring:

  • Good working experience as a finance analyst
  • Intermediate to advanced Excel skills required: Proficient in spreadsheets, database management, pivot tables, chart analysis, basic functions, etc
  • Organised, analytical, result and detail-oriented - Strict organisation to keep the team deliverables within the planned deadline.
  • Strong work ethic with a positive, can-do attitude
  • Experience with SAP R3 and BW is preferable
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good understanding of IT Costs, IT CAPEX and intercompany transactions
  • Dynamic & proactive
  • University degree or equivalent experience in finance-related subject

  Your new office

  Basingstoke

  Based at the Basingstoke office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment with full accessibility. 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, 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.

  We are Sony Europe.

  Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

  With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

  Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

  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 individuals 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 B.V, 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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• About the company

  Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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