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Role: Financial Accountant
Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: competitive salary plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role Purpose
The Financial Accountant plays a critical role in ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting, maintaining robust financial controls, and supporting key accounting processes. This position is responsible for month-end and year-end close activities, overseeing fixed assets management, and supporting the UK GAAP leases transition project, ensuring compliance with evolving accounting standards. Additionally, the role involves working closely with stakeholders across the business, providing financial insight to support decision-making, and driving improvements in reporting and internal controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Month-End Close Support: Overseeing the month-end close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting. This includes preparing balance sheet reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies, and maintaining our financial-close software (Blackline) to uphold reconciliation compliance.
- Financial Control: Responsible for maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the general ledgers, ensuring all balance sheet controls are effectively implemented. Oversee the reconciliation process, ensuring timely and proper sign-offs.
- Financial Reporting: Support the Financial Reporting & Accounting Manager in delivery of the Group’s reporting requirements including annual financial statements and monthly Group reporting requirements.
- Fixed Assets Management and Reconciliation: Responsible for maintaining the fixed asset register, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal policies and external reporting standards. Conduct monthly reconciliations of the general ledger to the fixed asset register to maintain accuracy and compliance.
- Fixed Assets Financial Planning & Analysis: Work closely with CAPEX owners to prepare CAPEX budgets and depreciation forecasts. Submit monthly CAPEX forecasts along with variance analysis. Conduct CAPEX variance analysis as requested by management.
- UK GAAP Leases Transition Project: Support the transition process, analysing data, implementing accounting adjustments, and embedding new processes into BAU.
- Commercial Support: Work closely with financial and non-financial stakeholders, providing analysis and insight to drive strong decision-making.
- Process optimisation: Identify opportunities to streamline processes and drive automation.
- Financial controls: Monitor and strengthen financial controls across key processes, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.
- Continuous improvement: Contribute to ad-hoc tasks and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives within the finance function.
- Audit Support: Prepare audit schedules and assist auditors in their inquiries.
- Ad-hoc Projects: Collaborate with other teams to ensure accurate accounting for capital projects and provide insight to support decision making.
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Skills And Experience
- Education: A degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. Working towards a professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
- Technical Skills: Good technical knowledge of accounting standards (UK GAAP).
- Fixed Assets Experience: Fixed assets management experience desirable but not a prerequisite.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey financial information clearly to diverse stakeholders.
- Adaptability: Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing priorities, take initiative in process improvements, and work collaboratively in a dynamic environment.
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Financial Systems: Proficiency in financial systems (desirable if experience of using Dynamics 365) and advanced Excel and data literacy skills.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactive, solutions-focused mindset
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About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
Diversity & Inclusion at SCC - https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
Sustainability at SCC - https://www.scc.com/sustainability-at-scc/
Life at SCC - https://www.linkedin.com/company/scc/life
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