Accounting Analyst

Accounting Analyst - Revenue, Commercial Investment and Inventory

Location: Weybridge

The Accounting Analyst will contribute to maintaining accurate and timely financial reports covering essential areas like revenue recognition, commercial investment, inventory, variable SG&A, and balance sheet reporting.

Within Sony Europe Business Partnering team, this role will contribute to month-end procedures and financial operations to secure seamless delivery and outstanding results.

The role will help reinforce governance, boost efficiency, and support alignment with Sony Corporate Accounting Policy and applicable European requirements.

This role is an outstanding chance for a driven, part-qualified, newly qualified, or analytically focused finance professional. It provides the opportunity to grow skills in technical accounting, business collaboration, and process enhancement within a complex pan-European setting. The position includes working with automation and data tools such as RPA, Alteryx, Power BI, and other reporting solutions, supported by third-party transactional partners when relevant.

You will:

You will bring:

• Relevant finance or accounting experience, ideally gained in a large, complex or fast-paced organization.
• Strong analytical skills, with confidence working with large data sets.
• Good systems capability, ideally including Power BI, Power Pivot, dashboards or reporting tools.
• A Proactive and independent personality, with curiosity to improve processes and the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the ability to support projects and collaborate effectively.
• Effective work with both finance and non-finance colleagues.

Your new office 

Weybridge 

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. 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, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), 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.  

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA 

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 [email protected] 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.