Financial Accountant

Valterra Platinum, formerly Anglo American Platinum, is a leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), with integrated mining, smelting, and refining operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, marketing the metal we produce globally. Following our demerger from Anglo American plc, Valterra Platinum is now an independent, publicly listed company with a primary and secondary listing on the Johannesburg and London stock exchanges respectively.

As we embark on this exciting new chapter, Valterra Platinum is positioned to define and pursue its own strategy, anchored in operational excellence, sustainability, and value creation for the long-term. With full accountability for our performance and growth, we are focused on strengthening our capabilities across the entire PGM value chain, from mine to market.

Our independence empowers us to deepen our commitment to stakeholders and lead with purpose – to Unearth Value to Better Our World. We remain steadfast in our ambition to be the world's foremost producer of platinum group metals, while embedding safety and sustainability in everything we do.

If you're driven by purpose and the opportunity to make a lasting impact, we invite you to join us. Apply today and be part of something bigger.

This role is based in Singapore

Purpose

The Financial Reporting Accountant drives delivery of the services that Finance provides to support the Valterra Marketing business and is responsible for the end to end for the financial reporting processes which include closing of month-end in SAP.

This role is responsible for submitting relevant data through to the Group Finance and ensuring that all queries are addressed in a timely manner.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the role works with stakeholders across the business to design, implement and optimize the processes and systems that ensure people have access to accurate business and financial information when they need it. It manages key relationship with Global Shared Services and ensures adherence to agreed service level. Finally, the role works closely with the Information Management department to employ technology to automate activities.

This role also drives a continuous improvement of culture within Finance, putting in place ways to measure our performance and leading collaborative efforts to improve it.

Responsibilities

1. Safety: Create a safety culture through productive and authorized operational systems/processes that allow all employees (including contracting partners) to provide their outputs in a risk-controlled environment. Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.

2. Performance and Delivery

• Drive efficient and effective Finance operations
• The Financial Accountant drives the engine room of the Finance function, managing payments to and from counterparties all the way to ensuring preparing and reviewing that all transactions are appropriately recorded in an effective manner within agreed timelines.
• Works within the framework of our financial controls and accounting policies, and engages closely with Risk, Group Shared Services and the wider Finance team to formulate, implement and perform robust controls and ensure documentation of key Finance processes. This has to be in line with upcoming UK ICFR requirements.
• Designs and optimises process to communicate transaction information across to GSS, ensuring adherence to workflow controls and eliminating manual intervention.
• Deliver on-demand information
• The role plays a key role in ensuring data integrity and making information available for on-demand to support commercial decisions and new business initiatives. It works closely with Performance Reporting and other stakeholders to design and implement the technical accounting logic to align data streams with business activities from financial and performance reporting perspectives while managing the systems and processes to capture and deliver them as efficiently and accurately as possible.
• Responsible for completion of reporting monthly results in an accurate, compliant and timely manner.
• Anticipates information required to maximise business value and socialise accounting treatment and design process to capture expanded data streams that enable new analysis and insight.
• Technology transformation
• Working closely with IM, the role looks to implement technologies that improve control, increase information available for the business and automate transactional activity as much as possible, freeing up the team to add value elsewhere. It needs to think differently about the work Finance does and how it gets done, including the elimination of manual journals and recons as a cost to quality.
• As we implement new systems, the role needs to establish appropriate processes for defining user needs and managing UAT for the Finance function, ensuring that accounting logic and financial controls are appropriately captured.
• Project and Continuous improvement;
• Creates a culture that actively looks to improve workflows and processes, minimising control weaknesses while increasing speed and accuracy.
• Optimise links between SAP, Aspect, and other systems to ensure information is readily available.
• Design and improve processes around the systems to streamline efforts required to input and extract data.
• Drive standardization and automation of processes via continual improvements.
• Leadership
• As we look to create the future of finance, the Financial Accountant needs to guide the Analysts, identifying the skills they need and helping them develop.
• Takes full ownership of the existing financial accounting processes and control environment which sit within the roles scope and remit whilst proactively engaging and leading on learning and process improvement initiatives.
• Lead and provide oversight for the l analyst to ensure responsibilities of the analyst are delivered to a high quality.

3. People & Teams:

Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.

4. Compliance:

Ensure compliance to internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements.