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Trade Accountant Jobs in Johannesburg at Glencore
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Full time
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Trade Accounting
Job ID
R200001173
Closing date
23/05/2025
Last Updated
16/05/2025
We are looking for an individual who will perform period close, intra period close & project requirements as part of Zinc/Copper marketing trade accounting team.
PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Execute the month end trade accounting close per profit center based on International Financial Reporting Standards “IFRS”.
Prepare detailed monthly IFRS P/L and working capital reporting.
Review and reconcile department management reporting.
Support regional offices with accounting challenges during period close.
Coordinate the department`s external audit, internal audit and financial governance processes.
Maintaining professional and technical accounting, finance and controls knowledge.
Remedy processes leading to prior month P/L reconciliation breaks.
Support the front and middle office including corporate teams with the preparation of ad-hoc departmental financial reports and analysis.
Conclude on and document the IFRS accounting treatment for new structured deals in advance of execution.
Automate manual journal entries to ensure straight through processing to the general ledger.
In collaboration with other trade accounting teams, identify and implement accounting best practice including processes and internal controls.
Review and reconcile department SG & A / overhead reporting.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
Front Office (Traders, Traffic)
Financial Controller
Marketing CFO (Baar)
Trade Accounting Team
Trade Accounting Lead
QUALIFICATIONS:
Chartered Accounting qualification (CA/CPA/ACCA)
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting / Finance
WORK EXPERIENCE & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
At least 1 years` post articles experience in a similar role.
Background in Accounting.
Working knowledge of ERP’s, especially SAP would be beneficial.
Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools, especially Excel.
Adaptable, dynamic, organized, self-starter, good communicator.
Interacts well within a team and actively manage expectations.
Advanced English language ability, both written and spoken.
Good communicator, that interact 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, and are attentive to detail, in a fast-moving environment.
How to :
Please on the Careers Portal: Applications Close:
https://www.glencore.com/careers/career-opportunities 23 May 2025
This vacancy will be filled in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Glencore. By ing for this position, you consent to Glencore collecting, storing, using, destroying, and processing in any other manner personal information for purposes of attending to this advertisement, and/ or all matters relating thereto, including the disclosure to third parties of such personal information for purposes of confirming such personal information. In the event you do not hear from the Company within 21 days after the closing date of applications, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful. The CVs of unsuccessful candidates will not be returned.
Who we are
Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.
With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.
Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.
Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.
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Title: Trade Accountant
Company: Glencore
Location: Johannesburg
