General Acountant - Anglo American

As a General Accountant, you will support the General Accounting Supervisor in delivering timely, accurate and complete financial information to stakeholders. You will also be responsible for supporting a robust control environment.

Under the leadership of the General Accounting Supervisor, your responsibilities will include: 

• Responsibility for month-end close activities
• Update and complete SOP’s process documents
• On a monthly basis process all relevant transactions in the general ledger with a special note on overdue items and make appropriate disclosures to the General Accounting Supervisor

• Responsible for processing all journal entries into relevant ledgers and submission to the General
• Accounting Supervisor for review in a timely manner
• Ensure the integrity of the balance sheet by preparing general ledger balance sheet reconciliations, investigate and report on financial discrepancies and overdue items.
• Complete and submit all relevant statutory and regulatory returns performed by the accounting team.
• Execute escalation process to support effective service delivery
• Assist in the preparation of the KPI reports
• Support deadline management
• Follow up and ensure that audit requests are submitted
• Focus on recording, completeness and measurement of all transactions
• Ensure controls are adhered to and executed
• Drive adherence to safety
• Any other tasks as and when required

This role is on a band 7'8 and reports to the General Accounting Supervisor.

Qualifications:

You will need to have:

• BCOM Accounting Degree/ National Diploma or equivalent B degree at a recognised institution.
• Member of a recognised accounting body (advantageous)

Experience:

• 2 years general accounting experience
• Accounting experience in the mining industry/corporate multinational environment
• SAP experience

Additional information:

Knowledge specific to the role:

• Finance
• Tax
• IFRS
• Exposure to Accounting Systems
• Fluent in Business English
• Valid Driver`s license