Job Vacancies at Rand Refinery

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

SILVER KRUGERRAND SALES

• Provide daily updates of Silver sales and stock working papers.
• Clearing of incoming USD payments for Silver sales.
• Issuing of Siler releases after payment matching.
• Issuing of Transfer documents when necessary.

CREDITORS

• Timeously processing of creditors invoices on the system.
• Compile a comprehensive payment request.
• Daily loading of USD and ZAR payments.

DEPARTMENTAL COST ANALYSIS

• Monthly reconciliations of accounts applicable.
• Month -end and adhoc journals.

CASH AND BANK MANAGEMENT

• Preparation of cash and bank estimates daily in conjunction with treasury operations.
• Daily review of bank accounts for correctness and correct bank balances.
• Daily completion of cash and bank actuals in line with bank statement entries.
• Processing of replacement payments daily for both ZAR and USD mines.
• Daily processing of bank entries in the financial operating system (SAP).
• Liaison with banks to clear and resolve outstanding and unprocessed payments
• Preparation of bank reconciliation.
• Preparation of selected general ledger accounts
• Liaison with treasury dealers for investment of excess funds as well as recall of funds from call to fund bullion bank account.
• Banking of cash receipts, processing of journals and duties as allocated by line manager from time to time.

DEBTORS

• Regular processing of invoicing for Jewellery, assay, granules, transport, shipping, vault and sundry.
• Running charges for refining fees and swaps
• Process the credit notes and journals.
• Ensure invoices are submitted daily to customers for payment.
• Process month-end debtors’s statements and submit to customers for payment.
• Submit debtors age analysis for review and effectively follow up on overdue payments (60 days and over).
• Reconciliation of accounts receivable subledger and selected general ledger accounts.
• Month end debtor’s re-evaluation.
• Month end closing by processing month end backdated payments appropriately.

 RISK REGISTER MANAGEMENT       

• Risk register reviewed and updated annually
• Completed quarterly Control self-assessment.

POLICY MANAGEMENT

• Ensure that procedures are reviewed and kept up to date annually

FINANCIAL STATEMENT SUPPORT (AFS NOTES)         

• Submission of completed and accurate year end schedules.
• Completed Notes to Financial Statements.

MANAGEMENT REPORTING (FRC) 

• Completion of accurate reports.

AUDIT REPORTS IN AREA

• Completion of Close-outs from audit findings.

TEAM COLLABORATION   

• It will be requested on an ad-hoc basis to assist other departments within finance.

STAKEHOLDER OPTIMISATION

This would be during the budget cycle:

• Assist with budgeting process through to approval.
• Value adding reports produced.
• Support for all items.
• Additional information incorporated where necessary.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Requirement to ensure that the general ledger for the JV and other subsidiaries are reconciled and together with any loan accounts.
• Stock management and revaluations.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Preference will be given to candidates that possesses a tertiary qualification (BCom Management Accounting) or related qualification.
• Preference will be given to a candidate that has at least 2 years’ experience in financial accounting field.
• Knowledge of Financial Accounting: Fundamental Accounting Concepts & Principles, Management Accounts reporting (Income statement only), implement Internal controls and adherence.
• IFRS and South African Tax Legislation knowledge - Know the requirements of these legislations.
• Applies technical and specialist financial knowledge in interpreting financial information for ad hoc projects. Assist with accounting functions.
• IT/SAP-Capable of using extensive IT knowledge coupled with SAP knowledge and advanced Excel skills to extract and manipulate data to achieve requirements.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Advanced computer literacy for SAP and advanced excel, Advanced excel.
• Self-development – Keep abreast of changes by attending seminars and read relevant publications.
• Financial and numerical literacy-High levels of accurate and detailed financial ability-Financial and numerical literacy
• Attention to detail.
• Report writing skills-In order to produce accurate and timeous reports for management.
• People skills - An ability to interact and communicate a high degree of technical knowledge to management and staff. This includes the ability to get the best out of people by engaging with all levels of employees.
• Negotiate, collaborate & partner with others.
• Good communication skills - An ability to converse with all kinds of people and produce concise reports.
• Business knowledge - A good understanding of company business and policies and procedures.
• Report writing skills - An ability to co-ordinate, prepare and produce accurate meaningful reports to management.
• Resource management skills - The ability to plan and use resources effectively.
• Honesty - An acute sense of honesty and moral conduct.
• Integrity - High personal standards of integrity in all situations and maintain confidentiality on sensitive data.
• Highly motivated and self-starter - Be able to work with minimum supervision
• Deadline driven - Be able to meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail - Be able to do detailed work consistently.
• Analytical numerical literacy - Accuracy and excellence in the execution of this financial role.
• Interactive skills - Ability to interact with all other employees in a professional and social manner.

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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

• The purpose of this role is to ensure high quality, timely, consistent and representative sampling, sub sampling and sample preparation of internal and customer material. This should be in line with approved SOPs, SHEQ and IT protocols.

DECISION MAKING

• Ability to make sound decisions for the benefit of the business, while considering sample quality, turnaround time and correct sampling route upon material assessment.

DIVERISTY OF WORK

• To sample and prepare samples in accordance with pre-established protocols using SOPs, within the scheduled sampling plans and SHEQ requirements.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure full compliance to SHEQ policies.
• Quality sampling of material within the required time frame in accordance with established SOPs.
• Perform essential administrative duties; capturing and processing of sampling data (LIMS).
• Communicate operational information; production, equipment availability, SHEQ and general notices to peers and supervisors.
• Continuously assess operational risks and implement approved corrective actions.
• Equipment utilisation.
• Compliance to security protocols.
• Compliance to Metal Assurance policies.
• Supporting SHEQ initiatives.
• Compliance to IT policies and ERP (LIMS) systems.
• People management.
• Prompt communication between stakeholders.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• A completed Matric qualification.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Planning and organizing skills.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Computer proficiency – Word, Excel and LIMS.
• Ability to identify and solve problems.
• Self-starter- work without supervision.
• Ability to withstand challenging situations.
• An honest, high moral code of behaviour and conduct.
• Knowledge of basic sampling principles.
• Knowledge of all sampling unit equipment.
• Knowledge of all sampling and sample preparation SOPs.
• Knowledge of stock management practices.
• Understand and apply relevant SHEQ practices and procedures i.e. Incident investigations and reporting.

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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

Working hand in hand with Mechatronics Technician to sure that all our PLC and Scada systems are well maintained, properly backed up and updated at all times - this will be achieved by the following:

• 3D designs;
• Robots programming;
• Siemens programming;
• Visual systems.

DIVERSITY OF WORK

• Technical function in the department.

DECISION MAKING

• Technician functions that does fault finding/ performs programming and maintenance.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure that the PLC and Scada systems is in working order in order to minimise downtime and faults in the Refinery;
• Revaluating the failures of hardware and software programs and systems in the company;
• Make PLC programming changes, back up electronic files and update blueprints as changes have been made;
• Will be responsible for installing, troubleshooting, repairing, modifying, calibrating and making adjustments to electrical, electronic, and pneumatic process control systems and devices used in production, laboratory, office and utility areas.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Grade 12;
• N-Dip/Certificate Mechatronics/ Associates N-Dip/Certificate in Electronics Technology or equivalent certification preference;
• Up to 2 years’ practical experience in maintenance or manufacturing plant.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Advanced/intermediate Programming;
• Siemens;
• MS Office and SAP;
• PLC, Scada, Cognex Camera and Fanuc/ Kawasaki Robot repair knowledge - able to understand and correctly apply good techniques to construction;
• Knowledge of planned and emergency maintenance - able to solve repair and maintenance problems;
• Compliance certification - able to ensure that machinery in the plant is maintained in compliance with standards and regulations;
• Fault finding knowledge - able to identify and rectify faults on machinery.