Head of Financial Accounting & Assurance

Job Description

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyoneRole: Head of Financial Accounting & AssuranceLocation: Birmingham, West Midlands (3 days on site per week)Salary/Package: To £80,000 (DOE), plus Company Benefits and access to fantastic personal development opportunities largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed throughIT 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.Reporting to the Director of Financial Control, in this senior role, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of Financial Accounting for SCC plc. You will be developing, monitoring and improving the accounting processes and controls, working closelywith the SCC EMEA Group Accounting and Compliance Manager to enhance Risk Assurance activities.You and your team will support the preparation of Statutory Accounts and manage the Year End audit and will be responsible for Investment Appraisals, Fixed Asset accounting and reporting as well as providing strong technical accounting leadership to theSCC Finance team.Key Responsibilities:Corporate Governance and Financial Control

• Ensure best practice for documentation of accounting processes and controls within SCC
• Maintain and develop SCCs Risk Control Framework
• Provide technical expertise on all financial accounting matters, providing updates to the SCC EMEA Group Accounting manual as required
• Enhancing reporting requirements to improve transparency around all areas of compliance activity
• Managing key balance sheet control accounts and optimise balance sheet reporting utilising the Blackline application
• Responsible for controlling and reconciling all intercompany accounts
• Ensuring seamless production of the Statutory Accounts through strong accounting controls and robust account mapping into the consolidation system (Cognos Controller)
• Ensuring that all external financial reporting requirements are met

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Responsible for Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasting, Working Capital reporting, including monthly submissions to the SCC EMEA Group team
• Responsible for foreign exchange risk management, hedging and mark-to-market accounting
• Fixed Asset accounting and reporting and Capex forecasting
• Projects
• Managing all accounting and reporting projects for the Financial Accounting team
• Administration and control of Capex business cases and project appraisals
• Controlling and reporting of all financing arrangements, including bank facilities and trade agreements with financing partners
• Supporting the continual development of SCCs financial reporting systems

Key skills/experiences:

• Qualified accountant (preferably ACA) with strong technical skills appropriate to an acquisitive group
• Experience in managing a financial accounting team in a large corporate environment
• Excellent MS Excel, Word, & Office skills and experience of Cognos TM1 and Controller applications would be helpful
• Experienced in driver-based Balance Sheet forecasting models
• Excellent communication & reporting skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at Director level
• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrating an ability to manage key stakeholders and an experienced and diverse team
• Willingness to get into detail to provide management reporting/insight
• Sound decision making skills and rational judgements based on relevant information
• Attention to detail. Adherence to reporting standards and formats delivering high quality professional output
• Commercial outlook with a demonstrable approach to adding value to the business
• Flexibility - easily adapting to change in a fast-moving leading edge IT company
• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines

Why SCC An inclusive workplace Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits Hybrid working in line with role requirements Career development and life-long learning opportunities Opportunity to join Europes largest privately-owned IT CompanyWe are an equal opportunities employerSCC 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 aredefined 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.