Financial Accountant

**Company Description** This is the chance to join us as a Financial Accountant**

Anglo American is a leading global mining company, and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast-growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s developed and maturing economies.

The Financial Reporting team strives to be Anglo American Marketing's centre of excellence for efficient and effective Record to Report 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, 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 evaluates 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.

**Responsibilities include**

**Drive efficient and effective Finance operations**
- The Financial Accountant drives the engine room of the Finance function, understands the inter-linkages between Invoice to Pay (ITP), Invoice to Cash (ITC) and Record To Report (RTR) workstreams, identifies and resolves any anomalies and ensures 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 Finance Operations - Services, Risk, Group Shared Services and other stakeholders to formulate, implement and perform robust controls and ensure documentation of key Finance processes. This must be in line with upcoming UK ICFR requirements.
- Designs and optimises process to communicate transaction information across to various stakeholders, 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 Business Partnering 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 which includes coordination and collection of information from all relevant sources in delivering Monthly Financial Statements, Board papers and other regular information as required by the Marketing Business, Production Business Units or Group.
- Drafts accounting papers to support new business initiatives in conjunction with the financial control team.
- 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 Aspect, Veslink, SAP, Blackline, HFM and other systems to ensure information is readily available.
- Design and improve pr