General Accounting Accountant at Anglo American

Job Description:

Under the leadership of the General Accounting Supervisor, complete the following activities in accordance with agreed service levels:

• Responsibility for month-end close activities.

• Update and complete SOP’s process documents.

• On a monthly basis process all relevant transactions in the general ledger with special note on overdue items and making appropriate disclosures to the General Accounting Supervisor.

• Responsible for processing all journal entries into relevant ledgers and submission to the General Accounting Supervisor for review in a timely manner.

• Ensure the integrity of the balance sheet by preparing general ledger balance sheet reconciliations, investigate and report on financial discrepancies and overdue items.

• Complete and submit all relevant statutory and regulatory returns performed by the accounting team.

• Execute escalation process to support effective service delivery.

• Assist in the preparation of the KPI reports.

• Support deadline management

• Follow up and ensure that audit requests are submitted

• Focus on recording, completeness and measurement of all transactions

• Ensure controls are adhered to and executed

• Drive adherence to safety.

• Any other tasks as and when required.

This role is at a Band 7 level reporting to the General Accounting Supervisor.

Qualifications:

Qualifications: 

BCOM Accounting /BCOMPT Degree or a relevant tertiary qualification or comprehensive experience in a financial discipline at a recognised institution

Experience:

• Accounting experience in the mining industry/corporate multinational environment

• 2 Years Record to Report (General Accounting) experience

• Demonstrated functional accounting experience in a similar environment

• Experience of year-end and other statutory reporting

• Experience with analysis and benchmarking of financial/business data

• Experience of performing key controls and working with adherence to financial

• Currently a member or eligible to become a member of a recognised accounting body (recommended) 

Additional Information

• Valid Driver`s license

Additional information:

Anglo American Limited, Global Shared Services – Group Finance  

Anglo American has set its Burning Ambition to be the most valued mining company by all its stakeholders by 2023.  A high-performing Global Shared Services (GSS) function, able to assist in driving the functional transformation agenda, as well as provide a broad range of critical support services to the business, is a key enabler to delivering this strategic objective. 

The transformation of the existing GSS organisation will lay the foundations for GSS ambition to be a strategic asset for Anglo American and is therefore a critical project on the roadmap to delivering the Burning Ambition.   

Core to delivering the GSS vision is a customer-centric approach to service management that clearly defines accountabilities across end-to-end processes and enables meaningful performance discussions between GSS, the Business Units and Functions.