Senior Legal Counsel, Group Ethics & Compliance

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
In Sky Group Ethics & Compliance our purpose is to oversee enterprise level risk management through policies, procedures, systems and controls - assisting our colleagues in preventing, detecting and remediating issues; and provide the business with advice as subject matter experts in Compliance-owned risk areas. As our team and the programme grows and evolves, this role is an exciting opportunity to play a crucial part in delivering on that purpose as the team member primarily responsible for integrity investigations support to the Sky Listens programme.
What you’ll do:
Direct or conduct escalated integrity investigations in partnership with Group Risk and the People team;
Ensure effective reporting to executive management and enterprise stakeholders in relation to integrity investigations;
Partner with HR Legal to align on the management of fair employment investigations;
Deliver investigations insights into the Group Ethics & Compliance programme through case specific business and people recommendations, trend analyses, and internal and external horizon scanning;
Proactively identify opportunities for and support the delivery of policy and process enhancements to the Sky Listens programme;
Drive Ethics & Compliance training for personnel within the Sky Listens programme regarding current and emerging compliance risks and trends, as well as supporting awareness raising for the programme for our employees more generally.
Oversee external disclosures requiring Group Ethics & Compliance approvals;
As required by team priorities, advise on specific business projects and transactions with an ethics & compliance impact, delivering solutions which mitigate legal risk for Sky whilst maintaining commercial flexibility
Collaborate with team members on Group-wide Ethics & Compliance driven initiatives, including risk assessment, policies and procedures, training and communications, and third party risk management;
What you’ll bring:
UK legal qualification with 8 years + post qualification experience of conducting and managing investigations relating to ethics & compliance (including white collar or financial crime matters), whether in private practice, in-house or a combination.
A track record of collaboration, problem-solving and developing solutions to complex legal issues in a complex multi-national business or highly regulated sector.
Superior influencing skills with extensive experience of advising at a senior level and managing multiple stakeholders with varying priorities in different territories, in a collaborative, positive and proactive manner.
An ability to operate in a fast-paced commercial environment demonstrating flexibility/adaptability to manage a workload comprising multiple wide-ranging matters and conflicting deadlines.
Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills, with an ability to adapt communication style to a variety of stakeholders across the business.
Ability to manage own workstreams in an agile and commercial way, leveraging your experience to deliver outcomes-focussed solutions.
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