Budget Management-Budgeting financial expenditure and forecasting (capital and operating expenditure) across the portfolio-Responsible for budget tracking and analysis-Responsible for the set up and creation of projects and management of budgets / Capex codes / Opex recharges-Support with working with Finance BP on weekly and monthly reporting across levels, up to and including exec level-Proactively work on improving processes and procedures relating to financial management and reporting-Use your initiative to provide efficient solutions for existing heavily manual process-Responsible for ensuring suppliers are paid in a timely manner and they are correctly following Sky policy with relevant audit trails in place-Be the SME (Subject Matter Expert) on collating information from the relevant systems.People / Resource Management-Support / maintain organisational charts across the teams-Support with keeping an up to date headcount record of the department including vacancies.Roadmap Planning & Management-Supporting with yearly capex process for digital-Supporting with quarterly planning sessions-Supporting with out of quarter planning sessions-Creating and managing process of supporting product teams with their roadmaps in a single place to ensure visibilityProject Management / Portfolio Governance and Communications / Portfolio Status Reporting / Delivery Management-Support key planning activity, including resource and financial forecasting, activity and milestone planning, and risk analysis-Supporting Delivery Team in the development, implementation and maintenance of a robust project management framework-Supporting Delivery Team ad hoc on activity related to projects/ programmes -Take ownership of PMO Meetings, including scheduling, minutes, actions and provide support to the delivery team-Creation of various packs for project reporting and business case preparation

- Budget management of £30m including forecasting and allocation of funds. - Management of six run rates within the department ensuring funds are available for timesheeting and external spend. - Supplier management. - Creation and implementation of supplier management processes. - Raising purchase orders and managing invoices from external parties. - Organisation management including the creation and maintaining of structure charts. - Creation and implementation of roadmapping for 17 squads. - Governance of project roadmaps and reporting to Senior Stakeholders where required. - Organising, collaborating and leading on departmental town halls. - Departmental delivery coordination of major projects such as Sky Glass.

Current responsibilities include:- Daily management of director’s inbox and calendar, - Scheduling meetings with various stakeholders’ both internal and external to the business,- Arranging departmental town halls/celebration events as per the agreed communication plan,- Managing the communication plan and actively ensuring each aspect of communication is covered on a regular basis,- Working with a team of Personal Assistants to ensure meetings are in the diary as per their urgency,- Acting as the first point of contact for a whole department and signposting where possible if I am unable to help,- Acting as delegate for the director on various systems (HR, Finance etc.) as well as raising purchase orders on the directors behalf.

After completing my Level 4 NVQ qualification in Business Administration, I was promoted from a Trainee Personal Assistant to a Personal Assistant.

I work in the Senior Management Team Secretarial Department, I support the Vice Principal Curriculum and the Vice Principal Quality and Student Experience with duties such as:- Diary management- Travel and accommodation booking- Email management- Report writing and proof reading- Deadline setting and reminders- Screening phone calls- Arranging external visits- Facilitating meetings of 20+ people. This includes room booking, furniture arrangement, collating papers and emailing them out with an agenda, taking minutes at the meeting, writing up and sending out of the minutes.I work with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word on a daily basis.

During these 2 years, I completed my Level 2 Business Administration Apprenticeship working for the External Funding and Projects Department and Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship working for the Enterprise Department.In the latter of the year, April, I moved to the Senior Management Team Secretarial department.