General Accounting Superintendent at Anglo American

Job Description
What you’ll do:
Are you team+ driven and have strong team methodology, drive an innovative thought process within teams and maintain a strong governance and controls environment? As a General Accounting Superintendent, you will have the opportunity to ensure that activities are performed, controls are adhered to and identify deficiencies in the control environment.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Oversee general accounting activities which includes annual financial statement, fixed asset accounting and capital reporting
• Maintaining a strong governance and controls environment
• Drive an innovative thought process within the team
• Drive strong team management approach
• Ensure that the integrity of the balance sheet is maintained through the monthly preparation and review of in-scope balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that overdue line items are investigated/escalated and cleared.
• Follow appropriate procedures to accurately, consistently and efficiently review transactions or resolve queries and provide guidance to Accountants. Report on issues and incidents, ensuring appropriate controls are embedded to prevent re-occurrence.
• Critically review KPI’s, following-up deviations from KPI’s. Interpret and cascade financial accounting/reporting policy, standards, procedures and timetables.
• Cascading of Group and GSS strategy down to line and develop function specific strategy.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and optimisations to drive value, improve quality and minimise the cost. Facilitate implementation of these identified opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for standardisation to support process efficiencies.
• Facilitate appropriate stakeholder engagements and collaboration to manage SLA deliverables. Quality review of all deliverables. Deadline management.
• Drive compliance to audit findings and ensure quality implementation.
  
   

Qualifications

• Qualified Charted Accountant
• 5 years Accounting experience, with a Financial Accounting/Reporting/Management Accounting experience and 2 years at a managerial Supervisory level)
• Highly knowledgeable on Finance, Tax and IFRS
• A good working knowledge of SAP and HCM

Closing date: 30/05/2020