Head of Credit Risk, Sky

Salary not provided

Expert level

London

Broadband and telecommunications company

Job no longer available

Broadband and telecommunications company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BEntertainmentTelecommunicationsMedia

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Expert level

London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BEntertainmentTelecommunicationsMedia

Company mission

To connect people with the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and local, original content.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong leadership with excellent people skills, and a positive and collaborative approach
Credit Risk expertise and an inspiring leader
A great doer, inspiring confidence in your plans at all levels
Loves a challenge and motivated to work in a dynamic environment alongside hard-working people
Actively develops talent to ensure teams are best in class
Lead, set clear direction and play a very active role in execution
Thrive in an environment that moves at a pace and pushes boundaries
Resilient and able to adapt to changing objectives, delivering even in times of ambiguity
Results driven mentality, constantly looking for ways to do things better
Commercial know-how, with the ability to translate customer and programme needs into clearly defined recommendations and insights for senior management
Clear communicator who can simplifying the complex but is also comfortable in the detail depending on the audience; "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial approach
Ability to act as a change agent, creating momentum for change within an organisation

What the job involves

Institute, lead, and deliver a Credit Risk Performance function to meet the growing needs of the business
Responsibility for a remit across UK and Ireland, plus additional strategic guidance and direction for credit risk and line-life management across Italy, Germany, and Austria
Be a leader with vision on Credit Risk; unlocking profitable growth opportunities for Sky through market leading capability
Support the design of new risk strategies to support new products and propositions
Ensure changes to data products, tooling and methodologies, and regulation impacting Credit Risk are regularly monitored
Management of the Credit Risk Capex and Opex budgets
Ensure that Credit Risk is commercially focused; provide support for pricing and new product process (loss assumptions and product risk assessments)

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Sky formed through the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990, making it the UK's largest pay-TV company. After the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014, Sky Group was formed, transforming the UK company into Europe's leading entertainment and media group.

With the recent success of their original content, Sky doubled their investment into this space by 2024 with a brand new movie and TV studio being built. This is expected to create an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone.

Sky's streaming service, Now TV, was launched in 2012 to compete with the rising tide of Netflix and, more recently, with Amazon's Prime Video. With pay-TV subscriptions dropping and the video streaming industry expected to grow by a further 20% by 2027, Sky has remained competitive by offering a range of deals, partnering with Netflix, and developing its own TV - Sky Glass, as it aims to keep up with consumer trends.