Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager

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

Responsible for delivering accurate and timely financial reporting, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, and supporting the wider finance team in maintaining strong financial controls. The role plays a key part in month-end close, audit processes, and continuous improvement of financial processes.

Key responsibilities

Financial Accounting

• Oversee the general ledger and ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial records.
• Manage month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, and balance sheet substantiation.
• Ensure appropriate accounting treatment of complex transactions in line with FRS 102.
• Maintain and enforce accounting policies and procedures.
• Support tax computations and liaise with group tax team

Financial Reporting

• Lead the production of statutory financial statements and supporting disclosures.
• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Provide variance analysis and commentary to senior stakeholders.
• Support group reporting requirements, including consolidation.

Audit & Compliance

• Act as the primary contact for external auditors, coordinating audit activity and delivering required information.
• Support internal audit processes and implement recommendations where required.
• Ensure compliance with internal control frameworks and financial governance standards.
• Monitor changes to accounting standards and assess their impact on the business.

Controls & Risk Management

• Maintain a strong control environment across financial accounting processes.
• Perform regular balance sheet reviews and identify potential risks or issues.
• Ensure robust documentation of processes and controls.
• Maintain and enhance financial control frameworks, polices and governance.

Process Improvement & Systems

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy of reporting processes.
• Drive automation and standardisation initiatives within the finance function.
• Support finance system enhancements and upgrades.
• Improve data quality and reporting capabilities.
• Champion a continuous improvement culture with ownership to resolve issues and elevate performance

Business, Stakeholder & Team Support

• Partner with teams across Finance and the wider business to provide financial insights.
• Provide technical accounting guidance to colleagues.
• Support ad hoc financial analysis and projects as required.
• Mentor and support junior team members.
• Review work prepared by less experienced team members to ensure quality and accuracy.

Skills and experience

• Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with minimum three years post-qualification experience.
• Strong and up-to-date technical knowledge of accounting standards (UK GAAP).
• Experience of month-end and year-end close processes and working with auditors
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong data literacy skills.

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