In April 2017, I rotated into a newly created team within the Sales & Marketing Group to look after subscription discounting (‘software’), providing analysis and insight to the UK CFO on £1bn of annual spend in this area. Our team was tasked, among other things, to:• Business partner with the trading teams to understand the profile of committed and uncommitted software spend, both retrospectively and prospectively, to identify potential future savings opportunities• Deep dive into discounting by package, tenure and customer type to understand key drivers of spend• Better understand how offers and discounting within the customer base have evolved over time• Identify and monitor software related KPIs (e.g. weekly management/statutory spend, cost per save rates in Retention etc.)

I worked for 2 and 1/2 years in Sky’s Home Service function, managing the annual budget for all field engineer labour and overhead costs, totalling c. £170m. My key skills and responsibilities included:Budget and Forecast• Financial modelling of all engineer labour costs; agreeing the annual budget with Group finance and monitoring this against actual costs incurred on a monthly basis. • Monthly re-forecasting of budget, based on operational changes or historic trends on costsBusiness Partnering• Working closely with a variety of commercial business counterparts, providing insight and analysis to enable them to identify cost-saving opportunities and risks to budget.• Co-ordinating with the Supply & Operational Planning team to make decisions on engineer headcount and ensure national engineer rota demands are met.Project Work• Creation of business plan to model projected revenues and costs for a multi-million pound field-based initiative, working closely with Sky’s executive management team and presenting updates to the Programme Board and the Director of Home Service on a regular basis.

ACA exam and time qualified as of September 2013