Financial Accountant (12 Month FTC)

Anglo American Marketing transports, markets and sells the products that move the world towards a more sustainable future.

We seek to sustainably maximise cash flows from the marketing of Anglo American products and services and have set ourselves an ambition to deliver a considerable uplift in Value.

The Finance team empowers the business to achieve its ambition. We aim to provide analysis that shapes strategy and drives better decision making, while providing an independent viewpoint that ensures the business continues to operate in the interests of all its stakeholders.

Purpose

The Financial Reporting team strives to be Marketing's centre of excellence for efficient and effective Record to Report (RTR) processes while driving optimization on processes & implementing robust controls to capture accurate business and financial information in accordance and within the framework of accounting policies across all commodities in Marketing entities.

Reporting to the Team Lead – Financial Reporting, the Financial Accountant works with stakeholders across the Metal businesses to design, implement and optimise the processes and systems to ensure that people have access to accurate business and financial information as and when they need it. As such, this role needs to work closely with the Information Management department to employ technology to automate activities and evaluate its effectiveness.

The Financial Accountant also supports the Team Lead in delivering the full spectrum of financial closing and reporting activities under the Record to Report (RTR) workstream in accordance with Group Policies and relevant Accounting Standards and ensuring controls are operating effectively. This may involve working closely with Finance Services Team to identify any daily operational activities in the trading system that may impact month-end closing activities in the accounting and consolidation systems, assess the reporting impact and intervening where necessary.

From time to time, the Financial Accountant also interacts closely with Global Shared Services, Treasury, Risk, Group Finance and Tax to provide stewardship over complex accounting processes such as revenue recognition and fair value of financial instruments, inventories valuation and classification of commodity contracts and help to oversee the production of monthly commentary and analysis to Group Finance and Production Units within agreed timelines.

At key reporting periods, this role is responsible for supporting the timely delivery of all regulatory reporting requirements to auditors, tax agent and company secretary.