Financial Accountant

About The Role

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Role: Financial Accountant

Location: Birmingham (SCC operates hybrid working, comprising 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

• 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

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.

• Month‑End Close Support:
  Oversee the month‑end close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting. Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, identify and resolve discrepancies, and maintain our financial‑close software (Blackline) to uphold reconciliation compliance.
• Financial Control:
  Maintain 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.
• Fixed Assets Management and Reconciliation:
  Maintain 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.
• Fixed Assets Financial Planning & Analysis:
  Work closely with CAPEX owners to prepare CAPEX budgets and depreciation forecasts, submit monthly CAPEX forecasts with variance analysis, and conduct CAPEX variance analysis as requested by management.
• UK GAAP Leases Transition Project:
  Support the transition process, analyse data, implement accounting adjustments, and embed 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.

• Education:
  
  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…