Statutory Reporting Accountant at Anglo American

Company Description:

Join us as a Statutory Reporting Accountant to ensure delivery of in scope activities with regards to Statutory Annual Financial Statements and returns preparation to Business Unit stakeholders in the EMEA region.

Finances are vital

As Global Shared Services (GSS), our commitment to partnership is at the core of our values. As a global business partner, we deliver flawless transactional, value added and customer-focused services to support the Anglo-American organisation. We invite talented people who can deliver high standard performance through innovative end-to-end processes. Using automation and other digital platforms in service delivery.  We welcome customer centric individuals with a broad base of capabilities, to join our global family. 

Job Description:

As a Statutory Reporting Accountant, you will support the statutory reporting activities and the submission of financial statements for Anglo American entities.

Your key responsibilities will include:  

• This role will provide Statutory Reporting Services to the organisation that will result in its non-disruptive operation.

• Preparation of annual financial statements for Anglo American entities.

• Process journal entries and prepare reports and reconciliations.

• Complete statutory returns including but not limited to VAT and government statistical reports, provisional and year end taxation.

• Drive compliance to audit findings and ensure quality implementation.

• Ensure that issues and incidents are logged, driving implementation of actions.

• Facilitate appropriate stakeholder engagements to manage SLA deliverables.

This role is at a Band 7 level reporting to the Statutory Reporting Coordinator.

Qualifications:

• A relevant 3-year tertiary qualification – with specialisation in Financial Accounting.

• CTA or related Honours degree with Financial Reporting specialisation qualification, with SAICA articles.

• 2-3 years post articles experience.

• Relevant/comprehensive experience in financial accounting, financial statement preparation and taxation.

• 2 – 3 years’ experience with supervisory skills

Experience:

• Finance – General finance and business knowledge.

• Tax – working knowledge of tax laws and submission of returns. Submissions on SARS e-filing.

• IFRS – Technical knowledge of accounting standards to be able to prepare financial statements in compliance with IFRS.

• Caseware - In depth knowledge of Caseware. Be able to prepare financial statements from low to high complexity, independently.

• WDesk – Able to prepare and tag financial statements.

• Microsoft Office - Excel and Word.

• SAP – working knowledge to navigate SAP system.

• Fluent in Business English.

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.