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Role: Reporting & Analysis Assistant
Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: £30,000-£40,000 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: 1-stage
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 Reporting & Analysis Assistant supports the finance team in preparing accurate financial information, completing routine reconciliations, and assisting with management reporting. The role helps ensure data accuracy, supports month end processes, and provides basic analysis to aid decision making. The position is ideal for someone early in their finance career who is developing technical skills and gaining experience in financial reporting.
Key responsibilities:
- Assist with the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports as required, ensuring data is accurate and submitted on time.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis by gathering data, updating templates, and performing basic checks.
- Complete routine reconciliations and flag discrepancies to senior team members for investigation.
- Provide administrative and documentation support for internal and external audits, including retrieving files and preparing simple schedules.
- Work with colleagues across finance to support process improvements, including updating spreadsheets, templates, and reporting tools.
- Support compliance with financial policies and procedures by following established processes and escalating issues where needed.
- Assist with ad hoc financial analysis, such as extracting data, preparing summaries, or running basic reports.
- Take responsibility for developing personal skills, including Excel capability, financial systems knowledge, and understanding of accounting principles.
Skills and experience:
- Studying towards AAT or interested in beginning a finance qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA optional at this stage).
- Basic understanding of financial reporting or accounting principles.
- Good attention to detail and willingness to learn analytical skills.
- Curious mindset with an interest in understanding financial data and identifying anomalies.
- Competent in Microsoft Excel (e.g., formulas, sorting, filtering) with willingness to develop further.
- Clear communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.
- Ability to organise workload and meet deadlines with support.
- Experience with finance systems or ERP tools (e.g., D365) is helpful but not essential.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and proactive in task management.
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.
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