SGA and FP&A Expert

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.
• SAP and Power BI experience.

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 celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about.  

You can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team.  

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 who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. 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 contribute 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 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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