VP Accounting and Reporting

Position Description & Qualifications

Serco is seeking an accomplished finance executive to join our North America Finance leadership team as Vice President, Accounting Operations located at our Headquarters office in Herndon, VA . Reporting to the Vice President, Financial Operations, this highly visible position provides leadership across critical accounting and finance functions while partnering with senior finance and other corporate leadership at the North America Division level and with our UK Serco Group Parent.

Candidates must reside within reasonable commuting distance of the Herndon, VA office and be available to attend onsite meetings, leadership events, and business activities as needed

This role offers the opportunity to help advance the capabilities, scalability, and effectiveness of a well-established Finance organization to support enterprise reporting, governance, and strategic finance initiatives. The Vice President, Accounting Operations leads a team of highly skilled departmental leaders across multiple Accounting Services departments and collaborates across finance and other teams to streamline business processes, deliver outstanding customer service, enable issue resolution, ensure compliance, provide analysis to senior management, set strategic goals and tactical objectives, develop and organize resources, and support special projects.

The successful candidate will have strong technical and functional accounting and financial expertise, depth of knowledge of U.S. GAAP and IFRS, experience with government contracting regulations, experience with Treasury and Insurance management, and the ability to lead and develop accounting professionals while driving process improvement and discipline across accounting operations. The Vice President, Accounting Operations will also provide leadership and development oversight for multiple Finance leaders and teams across North America, helping build organizational capability, strengthen succession pipelines, and support the long-term growth of the Finance organization.

The Vice President, Accounting Operations will help prepare the organization for continued organic growth, increasing operational complexity, and future acquisition integration activities. In addition to leading critical accounting and finance functions, this role provides exposure to senior executive leadership, operational leaders, and corporate functional leaders across North America, creating a unique opportunity to develop a broad enterprise perspective while supporting both U.S. and Canadian operations.

The breadth of responsibility and executive visibility associated with this role provides an exceptional opportunity for a high-performing finance leader to further develop the experience commonly associated with Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, CFO-track, and other senior enterprise finance leadership positions.

In this role, you will:

• Lead Accounting Operations and Financial Reporting activities across Serco North America. Formulate departmental strategy and implement plans to achieve results consistent with broader company goals.

• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting under both U.S. GAAP and IFRS.

• Provide leadership on technical accounting matters, accounting policy interpretation, complex transactions, acquisitions, and strategic business initiatives.

• Partner closely with Serco Group Finance and business leaders across the United States and Canada on reporting requirements, accounting policies, governance initiatives, and strategic finance priorities.

• Lead relationships with external auditors and oversee financial statement audit activities.

• Provide executive oversight of Treasury operations, including banking relationships, liquidity planning, cash management, and working capital initiatives.

• Provide executive oversight of Risk Management and Insurance Administration programs supporting the business.

• Direct Accounts Payable operations and ongoing process improvement initiatives.

• Oversee the Project Setup function responsible for the financial and operational structures that support contract execution, cost accumulation, billing, revenue recognition, reporting, and forecasting activities.

• Champion finance modernization initiatives involving automation, artificial intelligence, analytics, technology enablement, and process improvement.

• Build strong, collaborative, cross-functional relationships across Finance, Operations, HR, Procurement, Contracts, auditors, Serco Group, and other affiliates to support aligned and accurate financial outcomes.

• Communicate clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders, strengthening understanding of financial results to financial and non-financia