Finance Apprenticeship
SKY PLC
Middlesex (TW7 5QD)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 8 December 2025)
Posted on 19 November 2025
Contents
Summary
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.
- Wage
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£27,010 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, hour vary per team, but will typically be 9.00am to 5.30pm.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 August 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Rotate across five years in different teams (2-year foundation + three 1-year placements)
- 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
Where you'll work
Grant Way
Isleworth
Middlesex
TW7 5QD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED
Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the 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 transaction or undertaking 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 use of 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, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the 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 transaction or undertaking 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 use of 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.
Training schedule
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.
More training information
Rotate across five years in different teams (2-year foundation + three 1-year placements).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Commercially minded
- Organised and analytical
- Great with people
- A team player
- A self-starter
Other requirements
Be above statutory school-leaver age by August 2026. You won’t have completed a qualification or degree in the subject you are applying to. You’ll have completed any current education by August 2026 and don’t plan to be undertaking any education throughout the duration of the apprenticeship. You’ll have resided in the UK or Republic of Ireland for three years by August 2026. If you are on a time limited visa, your visa will not expire at any point during the apprenticeship programme.
About this employer
Sky Plc is a British-based pan-European satellite broadcasting, on-demand Internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company
https://www.skygroup.sky/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Our fantastic range of benefits really are something special, here are our highlights: free Sky Q (for the TV you love all in one place), a generous pension, 25 days paid annual leave, discounted Mobile and broadband and private health care.
After this apprenticeship
Finance analyst.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001325.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 8 December 2025)
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