Assistant Financial Accountant at Anglo American

Job Description
Responsible for co-coordinating the accounting activities and the financial reporting of the Coal AAIC Head Office entity and Coal entities.

• Adhere to the Anglo Coal Accounting policies and ensure that all work has followed the correct governance procedures
• Ensure the accurate and timely completion of the trial balance for the relevant entities at period close
• Processing all relevant information including relevant journal entries to ensure that the financial submission is accurate and complete
• Submission of the information for financial reporting purposes
• Preparation of additional reports as required, including those related to the MOP process and other ad-hoc requests in a timely and accurate manner
• Perform where relevant or obtain and review balance sheet reconciliation, interrogate and ensure that reconciling items are addressed
• Preparation of VAT schedules for purposes of statutory returns
• Identification of improvement opportunities and implementation thereof
• Collaboration with Cash Management and other BU’s to achieve role objectives
• Demonstrate behaviour in line with health, safety and environmental standards and with the Group’s values
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections and observations, and address issues as part of demonstrating safety leadership
• Contribute to the broader team’s objectives by working with others in such a way that it optimises the overall teams’ results
• Develop a clear and aligned work plan;
• Contribute to a constructive and productive working environment;
• Monitor the work produced and provide regular and useful feedback to the manager on progress
• Drive delivery of objectives
• Identify gaps in policy & system design, implementation or execution that are negatively impacting on your performance and initiate action to address these issues. For policies & systems within your ambit, make the required changes with the approval from the manager

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in the relevant discipline

Additional Information

• Core work of financial month end and period end close, budget, Outlook and MOP
• Ellipse, Excel, Ramesys and HFM systems, core components and how these impact activities
• Understanding of financial reporting and performance reporting activities
• SAP knowledge would be advantageous
• Management of month end close process
• Knowledge of the VAT act
• Above average knowledge of Accounting principles
• Good attention to detail, able to perform a self-review of work
• Problem solver – being able to identify errors in reporting and determining the underlying route cause and correction thereof
• Work independently and self-motivated
   

Inclusion and Diversity
Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.