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Technical Accountant
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  • Full time
  • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Accounting (Industrial Assets)
Job ID R200001112 Closing date 11/04/2025 Last Updated 01/04/2025

Glencore’s Marketing Business Unit is looking for a Technical Accountant to provide IFRS technical accounting support, to finance teams across the Marketing Business Unit.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

  • Financial Controllers

  • Global Consolidation Team (Baar)

  • Chief Financial Officers

  • External Audit

PRIMARY TASK & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Draft technical accounting position papers addressing issues as they arise, and together with the relevant Marketing Finance teams, driving them to resolution with our external auditors.

  • Developing and maintaining the Marketing iGAAP, which is a detailed interpretation of the Group Accounting Manual. The Marketing iGAAP will take the form of a technical operating manual which includes practical application guidance and relevant examples for the Marketing Business Unit.

  • Preparing training material in various formats including PowerPoint, video tutorials (with assistance) etc. and hosting training sessions for participants.

  • Working together with our Group Reporting Team to analyse the impact of new IFRS standards and/or changes to existing standards on the Marketing Business Unit and updating the Marketing iGAAP accordingly with an interpretation of the accounting policy decisions made by Group Reporting.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • CA(SA) designation

EXPERIENCE

  • A qualified SAICA professional with at least 1 - 2 years of post-qualification experience in a technical accounting advisory environment within practice (Big 4 Audit Firm).

  • Experience in writing technical accounting position papers.

  • Experience in preparing and delivering training would be an advantage.

  • Experience with IFRS 9 Financial Instruments would be an advantage.

  • Industry experience within a commodity trading environment would be an advantage.

COMPETENCIES

  • Effective communication skills (spoken and written).

  • Strong Microsoft Office Skills.

  • Business English fluency is required.

  • Ability to collaborate, support colleagues, and contribute to a positive team environment.

  • Demonstrates integrity and handles confidential information appropriately.

  • Takes initiatives to drive improvements and address accounting matters in a timely manner.

  • Manages multiple priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment.

How to apply:

Please apply on the Careers Portal:                                                     Applications Close:

https://www.glencore.com/careers/career-opportunities                11 April 2025

This vacancy will be filled in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Glencore. By applying 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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