Project Accountant (FTC ENDS SEPTEMBER 2023) at Anglo American

Job Description:
The Project Accountant will be responsible for providing accurate project cost and financial information to various stakeholders to enable effective decision making.

Key Responsibilities include:

Management, Project Cost Reporting and Controls

• Advise and make recommendations to senior management, inter-group and project team stakeholders on project, capital spend and cost accounting matters in line with IFRS, company accounting policies, robust controls, good governance and detailed financial analysis.
• Scrutinise costs recorded for accuracy and completeness and participate and cost saving initiatives as required.
• Provide input and review of existence of adequate controls that will allow for the preparation of a valid and complete annual budget. Plan, co-ordinate, upload and present forecasting and business planning outcomes.
• Analyse and provide commentary on variances between current forecast, actuals and budget and make recommendations to Management where necessary.
• Assists in the management and control of budgets, commitments, expenditure, forecasts vs. authorised budget and the production of project financial reports.
• Co-operate with the external and internal auditors as required regarding project cost matters.

Month End & Capital Reporting

• Perform month end procedures on SAP including project and order settlements, accrual and reallocation journal postings and preparation of relevant financial month end reconciliations.
• Preparation of Capital Project Revenue billing and related detailed schedules due to inter-group stakeholders.
• Preparation of month end Capital Project, DBM Capital, Assets Under Construction and Working Cost reports, presentations to Senior Management, related Group reporting deliverables and performance commentary due to various group stakeholders.
• Preparation and maintenance of the DBM Capital Book inputs and deliverables due to DBM Board, Group Reporting, Senior Management and other stakeholders.

Financial Modelling

• Initiate and develop flexible company financial scenarios to aid management in making quality decisions.
• Provides input and review of the validity of the project related financial assumptions and methods used in the financial business case.
• Run financial models in HSF and/or OneStream systems.

Business Improvement: Systems and Processes

• Continuously examine the appropriateness of existing systems and processes against the possibility of improved efficiency and implementing changes as required.
• Actively participate in DBM OneStream Project Build and SAP system improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Cost Accounting / Management Accounting / Financial Accounting degree as a minimum.
• CIMA qualification is essential.
• CA (SA) would be an advantage.
• Project Management qualification or equivalent would be an advantage.       

Knowledge and experience required: 

• Appropriate experience in Financial and Management accounting.
• Financial analysis aptitude and ability to provide quality recommendations and solutions.
• Financial modelling experience is essential.
• OneStream and Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance (HSF) experience is essential.
• Systems knowledge – Excel Advanced Project Cost Management Systems and SAP system experience required.
• Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills essential.
• Advanced Project Cost Management Systems such as Prism would be an advantage.

Core Competencies:

• Good communication skills with the ability to clearly convey information and innovative ideas.
• Ability to work in a team and contribute to team success by actively participating as a member of the Finance team to achieve team goals.
• Customer focus, ensuring that the customer’s needs are a primary focus of your actions and developing sustainable customer relationships.
• Analysis and logic, systematic and orderly planning, attention to detail.
• Ability to think creatively and take an innovative and flexible approach to problem solving in a fast changing innovative driven company.
• Self-starter who can work with minimum supervision and the ability to work independently.

Closing Date: 17th, April 2022