Job Description

Job highlights

Full time
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Financial Operations

Job ID

R200001221

Closing date

27/07/2025

Last Updated

11/07/2025We are looking for a motivated and focused candidate with a keen interest in the commodity environment to join and lead our Financial Operations team that will support the Financial Operations team located in our Headquarters, and the Marketing Finance department.

Key Stakeholders

Marketing Finance Team. Marketing front office operations team for Zinc Copper Department.

The main tasks and responsibilities include:

Lead and support a team of 5 team members, ensuring compliance with control environment, consistent application of policies and procedures as well as timely processing of transactions to meet business requirements.
Maintain and develop good relationships with our headquarter Financial Operations team and other front office stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of new processes and procedures.
Validate provisional/final sales and purchase invoices against supporting documentation in collaboration with the Front office operations team.
Validation of hedge settlements.
Capture and review Service Provider invoices
Prepare invoices for settlement, ensuring internal control and compliance requirements are adhered to.
Validate and approve payments.
Co-ordinate and follow up on settlement execution.
Netting/offsetting invoices where required in collaboration with the front office operations team
Follow up on invoice/settlement counterparty queries
Support Corporate Finance Operations in resolving unapplied cash queries.
In collaboration with other financial operations teams, identify and implement financial operations best practice, including processes and internal controls enhancements to improve efficiency, accuracy and automation.
Perform user-acceptance testing on system enhancements that are implemented and co-ordinate the enablement of such enhancements.
Keep up to date with Glencore's procedures and policies and ensure communication to their designated team.

Qualifications and requirements:

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; or similar.
Chartered Accountant (SA) or a similar postgraduate Honours degree in Accounting or Financial Management is highly advantageous.
Sound experience of commodity trading invoicing and settlement, accounting and internal controls for large corporations.
Working knowledge of commodity trading systems and invoicing to ERP integration.
Previous experience in a management or team leadership position.
Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools, especially Excel.
Advanced English language ability, both written and spoken.

The ideal candidate is:

Keen interest in business process automation, internal control, efficiency and improvement.
Motivated by diverse tasks and organised with a positive and professional approach.
Good communicator, that Interact well within a team and effectively manage expectations.
Promotes an effective internal control environment.
Take initiative in resolving issues in a structured methodical manner.
Willing to get involved in the transactional processing when it is busy.
Have a keen sense of responsibility and ownership, and are attentive to detail, in a work environment that demands flexibility.

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.*