Jobs at Glencore

The Regional Treasury function in Africa supports all of Glencore’s Africa operations across commodities for both their marketing and asset divisions. The function is responsible for FX risk management, liquidity management, trade finance, bank facilities/ intercompany funding structures, capital structuring, managing exchange control and local regulatory requirements and managing the relationships of our banks in the region.


PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

As the Regional Treasury Analyst, you will also support the Regional Treasury function ensuring it meets its key objectives whilst continually searching for opportunities to streamline, optimize, generate efficiencies, and add value to the Group.
 

• Agreeing positions and netting for all FX and Money Market transactions with banks and analyse exceptions.
• Reconcile bank accounts on a daily basis and investigate / report and clear any exceptions.
• Assist in managing bank authorizations and reporting.
• Assist in documenting and implementation of back and middle office treasury policies and procedures.
• Assist in managing loan documentation, preparing utilization requests, reconciling interest calculations, reporting.
• Help develop and prepare various weekly and monthly treasury reports.
• Assist in the preparation of daily cashflow for the Africa business units ensuring its accuracy prior to consolidating and reporting to Group Treasury.
• Support all Treasury projects to ensure the Africa Treasury structure always follows best in class principles.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
 

• Regional Treasurer – Africa
• Group Treasury
• Group Finance Systems team
• Business Unit Treasury teams
• Banks

QUALIFICATIOS:

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification – Degree qualified / Graduate.

WORK EXPERIENCE & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• We will require 3-5 years Treasury experience 
• Advanced XLS skills.
• Highly analytical and great attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel to Glencore operations in Africa.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-motivated, highly pro-active and resilient attitude.

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The incumbent in this role is responsible for assisting with mine planning, scheduling, costing and financial evaluation of life of mine plans of both operations and projects including ad-hoc financial investigations and technical assignments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluating and analysing business processes, cost and revenue drivers
• Building ad-hoc models to assist EXCO in decision making on business options.
• Conducting, reviewing, and analysing Life of Mine Plans to maximise the profitability and sustainability of the business.
• Identifying business improvement opportunities.
• Conducting project studies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A relevant degree.
• A Business Qualification will be advantageous.

Minimum Experience:

• 7 years in the Mining/Technical environment of which 3 years should be in a D-upper role.
• Advanced computer software skills.
• Advanced financial modelling skills.
• Knowledge of financial evaluation for life of mine planning purposes.
• Knowledge of mine planning and financial drivers.
• Experience in a coal mining environment.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Ability to carefully and objectively analyses and evaluates information to inform decisions and key actions.
• Ability to take decisive action and to assume responsibility for making difficult decisions that affect people and business performance.
• Ability to maintain high levels of individual and team performance by driving the achievement of goals, targets and financial objectives.
• Ability to generate new ideas and radical approaches to solving unique challenges.
• Generates higher-level concepts by integrating information, theories and models to create an understanding of the current and future environment and solve business problems.

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We are looking for a motivated and eager candidate with an interest in programming and automation to aid the efficiency and improvement of the Zinc Copper Finance department processes.  

As a Finance project Analyst, you will support the marketing and logistics finance team in Baar out of South Africa. 

You will be responsible for: automation projects, process design and development, spreadsheet maintenance and data analysis with a keen interest in business process automation and improvement, with a mindset to drive efficiency and standardization, whilst enhancing controls.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive efficiency gains across the Zinc Copper FinOps, Middle Office, Deal Validation and Trade Accounting teams through EUC automation.
• Designing and developing solutions for existing processes.
• Coding, testing, debugging on complex builds.
• Integrate Excel-based tools to both pull and push data from / MS Access.
• Maintenance and support for existing developed VBA applications, which include user forms and database interaction.
• Implementation of version control and standardization of code and UI across VBA applications.
• Building and maintaining strong internal relationships across multiple teams / departments including IT and the business.
• Documenting code and procedures.

This role will be based at our Melrose Arch offices, reporting to the Finance Manager.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor’s degree - preferably in an analytical discipline such us computer science/programming/accounting/finance or economics.
• A master’s degree in any of these relevant disciplines would be advantageous.
• Higher education courses specializing in VBA or SQL programming will be advantageous.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 3 - 5 years’ experience is preferred.
• Programming knowledge, specifically VBA is essential.
• Previous experience in Product Control or Finance is beneficial but not essential.

Technical:

• VBA: Proficiency in writing and debugging VBA code. This includes understanding of the object model of Excel and ability to create user-defined functions.
• Advanced Excel Skills: Ability to use advanced Excel features such as pivot tables and advanced formulas.
• Database Knowledge: Basic understanding of databases.  Familiarity with MS Access, and the ability to write basic SQL queries to manage and analyse large datasets is beneficial.
• Data Analysis: Ability to work with large datasets and perform complex data manipulation and analysis.
• Error Handling: Ability to implement error handling and data validation to ensure the integrity of the spreadsheets and applications.

Finance Knowledge:

• Knowledge in any of the below disciplines will be advantageous:
• Accounting: Understanding of accounting principles and financial statements.
• Product Control: Insight into product control processes, including P&L reconciliation, price testing, and trade economics.

Soft Skills:

• Analytical: Ability to breakdown complex problems and devise effective solutions with logical steps.
• Strong attention to detail.  
• Communication Skills: Ability to simplify and convey complex problems succinctly whilst working collaboratively with other teams.
• Time Management: Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively, especially when dealing with tight deadlines in a Commodities Trading / Finance environment.
• Willingness to learn: Willingness and desire to advance VBA skills to a developer level.

Project Management:

• Testing and Documentation: Ability to write documentation and procedures and to test code thoroughly to reduce bugs and improve robustness and maintainability.
• Business Intelligence Tools: Experience with BI tools such as Power BI may also be advantageous.
• MS Word and PowerPoint proficiency

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Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to be part of the Coal Marketing & Logistics function as a Commercial Marketing and Logistics, where you will be responsible to manage and execute commercial marketing and logistics activities in the domestic markets and logistics related activities for the domestic and export markets.

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Develop and implement commercial marketing and logistics strategies to optimize commercial marketing and logistics positions, mitigate risk, and maximize profitability.
• Execute buy and sell orders to achieve desired positions in coal commodities.
• Negotiate coal purchase and sale agreements with counterparties, including suppliers, producers, and end-users.
• Structure and execute complex deals to ensure competitive pricing.
• Monitor domestic coal markets, including price trends, supply and demand dynamics, and geopolitical factors affecting coal prices.
• Conduct in-depth research and analysis to identify commercial marketing and logistics opportunities and risks.
• Develop and maintain risk management strategies to protect the company from price volatility and market fluctuations.
• Monitor and assess the risk exposure of the coal commodities portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Stay informed about changes in regulations that may impact commercial marketing and logistics activities.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with coal suppliers, customers, brokers, and industry peers.
• Collaborate with other commercial marketing and logistics teams and departments to enhance the company's commercial marketing and logistics capabilities.

This role will be based in Melrose Arch office, reporting to the Head of Marketing and Logistics – Coal.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst or Actuary

The ideal candidate will have:

• A good understanding of MS Office (Word, Excel)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A team player with a proactive attitude
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional negotiation and communication skills.
• Results-oriented, with a track record of successful commercial marketing and logistics and risk management
• High level of attention to detail and data accuracy
• Strong analytical skills
• Interested in commodity commercial marketing and logistics.

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PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible to ensure efficiencies and effectiveness within scope of respective activities and services in support of logistics objectives to contribute positively to financial performance.
• Monitor movement, arrival, loading and departure at port of vessels through close liaison with shipping agents and update logistics management and Baar traffic accordingly.
• Provide efficient administrative support as required to fulfil contractual obligations relating to shipping documentation issuance, dispatch, storage, and related services.
• Maintain operations by following and adhering to a wide range of department related clerical functions, procedures, and policies.
• Ensure prompt service from service providers by forging and maintaining close relationships and by ensuring any problems or issues are immediately brought to management attention and addressed swiftly and effectively. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B. Com Logistics, Accounting or Finance and/ Relevant Tertiary qualification.

WORK EXPERIENCE & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• We will require 2-5 years relevant experience.
• Commercial Job Apprenticeship / Internship experience will be beneficial.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Strong analytical and administrative skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Team player with an independent and flexible work attitude.
• Ready to adopt to international practices.
• Computer literacy with excellent MS Office (Word, Excel).

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Job Summary 

We are looking for a motivated and eager Finance Operations Analyst candidate with a keen interest in the commercial and logistics environment where you will be responsible for invoicing, collection and settlement and relevant projects providing support to the Marketing Finance team in Baar. 

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Validate provisional/final invoices submitted by the front office operations team against deal and the supporting documents.
• Book invoices in commercial & logistics commodity system and submit for payment.
• Capture secondary cost invoices received and submit for payment.
• Follow up on un-invoiced deliveries or services.
• Report on overdue invoices.
• Store and archive invoices and invoice data together with commodity deal data.
• Net/offset invoices where possible prior to settlement and communicate netting and offsetting with counterparties, in collaboration with the front office operations team.
• Prepare invoices for settlement.
• Follow up on settlement execution.
• Follow up on invoice/settlement counterparty queries.
• Support Treasury Operations in resolving unapplied cash queries.
• Match and clear open invoices in the invoicing system.
• Automate financial operations activities to ensure straight through processing to the general ledger.
• In collaboration with other financial operations teams, identify and implement financial operations best practice including processes and internal controls.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Finance Marketing department
• Finance Back Office team
• Marketing and Logistics team in Johannesburg

QUALIFICATION & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or Chartered Specialist in Accounting and Financial Management.
• Advantageous to demonstrate post qualification studies.

Work Experience:

• We will require 3 to 5 years relevant experience including experience of commercial & logistics invoicing and settlement or accounts payable.
• Working knowledge of commercial & logistics systems and invoicing to ERP integration.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools, especially Excel.

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Adaptable, dynamic and organised with a positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Interacts well within a team and actively manage expectations
• Take initiative in resolving issues in a structured methodical manner
• Have a strong sense of responsibility and ownership
• High level of attention detail, in a fast-moving environment.
• Deliverable and service orientated 
• Need to be adaptable, flexible and entrepreneurial