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Full time
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Financial Operations

Job ID

R200001232

Closing date

30/07/2025

Last Updated

22/07/2025As a Financial Operations analyst, you will be accountable for supporting the Financial Operations function in ensuring a timely, accurate and complete end-to-end settlements process for all London Trading Desks within the Oil Group. You will support the team to ensure all settlements targets and KPI's are met.

The main tasks and responsibilities include:

Ensuring resolution of day-to-day operational issues and escalations.
Liaising with internal desks/teams, within the Treasury, Operations and Risk management functions, on the resolution of settlement disputes.
Building relationships both internally and externally to create and support business information flow.
Monitor and resolve queries from external parties.
Follow team processes to ensure all counterparty, billing and settlement information is in line with company policy and up to date.
Support and review regular updates of the internal processes within the FinOps area.
Proactively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the scope of Finance Operations, to drive efficiency and improved performance.
Meet KPI's and performance targets allocated to your area.
Provide review and commentary to team reporting and analytics.
Support the manager with periodic and ad hoc management reporting.

Qualifications and requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; or similar.
3 to 5 years' relevant experience in an accounting or internal control function, in a commodity trading environment is beneficial

Our ideal candidate:

Ability to work well under pressure.
Good attention to detail (analytical, methodological and tenacious).
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to prioritise and manage your workload effectively.
Willing to learn new subjects and acquire new skills.
Comfortable working in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.
Resourceful and well-structured, demonstrating a positive and engaging outlook.
Takes initiative in resolving issues in a structured methodical manner.
Ability to organize tasks to meet business requirements.
Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools, especially Excel.
English language ability, both written and spoken.

How to apply:

Please apply on the Careers Portal: Applications Close:

30 July 2025
https://www.glencore.com/careers/career-opportunities
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.Note: All applications will be subject to potential background checks. You will be informed if this will be the case. Further information about the processing of your personal data will be made available during the application process. We'll seek your explicit consent prior to processing the data

*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.
Note: All applications will be subject to potential background checks. You will be informed if this will be the case. Further information about the processing of your personal data will be made available during the application process. We'll seek your explicit consent prior to processing the data.*