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That’s how we continue to achieve extraordinary things in extraordinary locations.\nJob description:\nPurpose\nThe development into a well-rounded professional accountant through on-the-job learning and continuous mentorship over a three (3) year period by rotating between various finance functions. Must have graduated within the last two years. The successful candidate will be offered an opportunity to develop into a well-rounded professional accountant through on-the-job learning and continuous mentorship. The programme will run for three years, during which period the Trainee will rotate through the listed roles and complete their ZICA or equivalent studies\nKey Responsibilities\nIn any of the roles within the Finance department the position holder will be required to:\nIdentify opportunities for improving efficiency.\nBe open to share your views with colleagues and management.\nSupport the team with providing the required support for external, internal and other audits.\nAddress queries promptly and courteously.\nUphold the Company and Professional codes of conduct.\nCommunicate all issues identified to your supervisor, promptly.\nSeize learning/growth opportunities (especially professional accountancy studies if not qualified yet).\nDevelop and maintain cordial working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.\nPerform any other task as and when assigned by immediate Supervisor/Designate.\nTrainee Rotations:\nSundry/Staff Sales and Receivables:\nWork closely with other departments/teams that provide inputs for metal and sundry sales invoicing (e.g. commercial, Processing, Engineering, HR etc.).\nMaintain a schedule of active sundry sales contracts to ensure actual sales are made in line with contractual terms (especially on duration, pricing, quantity and credit terms).\nMaintain a schedule of actual scrap deliveries, reconciled against end-user requests, to ensure all deliveries are invoiced for as well as track the cumulative quantity against total contractual quantity.\nObtain staff and contractor back-charge schedules (e.g. for fuel, flights, school fees, insurance etc.), with appropriate backup documents, and post/invoice promptly to ensure timely recovery.\nEnsure sufficient support for all transactions and journals posted by you is retained and filed appropriately.\nWeekly review of aged sundry debtors report and chasing for payments or offsetting against amounts payable to the owing contractor as per agreed terms.\nReview staff debtors and submit schedule of outstanding balances for deduction through payroll every month (by the 15th); working closely with HR to ensure separated employees do not leave outstanding AR balances.\nTimely and accurate completion of sundry and staff AR balance reconciliations every month end; providing comments and action plan on balances older than 60 days.\nMetal Sales and Receivables\nWork closely with other departments/teams that provide inputs for metal sales invoicing (e.g. commercial and Processing.).\nDaily tracking of concentrate and anode delivery schedules against monthly delivery plans.\nReconcile concentrate and anode delivery reports against confirmed receipts and ensure variances are resolved before invoicing.\nPrepare invoices and ensure approved copies are booked in the system and delivered to the customer on time.\nEnsure sufficient support for all transactions and journals posted by you is retained and filed appropriately.\nWeekly review of aged debtors report and chasing for payments from customers to ensure payments are received as per contractual terms.\nTracking provisionally invoiced metal sales and engaging the customers to ensure timely invoice finalisation as soon as final prices and assays are available and in keeping with contractual terms.\nAnalyse actual sales against budget and forecast targets and provide commentary on the variance; for consolidation into the overall financial report for the month.\nTimely and accurate completion of all assigned reconciliations every month end.\nTimely and accurate preparation and submission of assigned statutory reports (e.g. exports via rail).\nAccounts Payable:\nBuild effective, strategic relationships with the business, vendors, and cross- functional teams.\nCollaborate with commercial teams (e.g. procurement, contracts, receiving) to ensure compliance with requirements and standard contract terms.\nManage assigned supplier portfolio and engage with their key contacts on an ongoing basis to ensure invoices and account statements are received timely.\nPrompt capturing of supplier invoices, while taking care to ensure they are duly authorised and valid for VAT purposes if applicable.\nPerform supplier account reconciliations before every pay-run and at month end, and ensure all reconciling items are resolved promptly.\nPrepare/compile invoices and supporting documents for payment processing and, once paid, forwarding remittance advice to the suppliers for purposes of updating their statement.\nWeekly review of GRNI to follow up on and resolve any long outstanding entries pertaining to assigned supplier portfolio.\nSubmit monthly cash requirements, for expected supplier payments, to the Financial Accountant for incorporating in the overall cash plan for the month.\nSupport month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities by ensuring all invoices received are captured by the cut-off date.\nSupport the team with providing the required support for external, internal and other audits.\nCapital Accounting:\nObtain required approvals for AFEs and disposals.\nProvide guidance to the business on what costs qualify to be recognised as capex by following the guidance provided in the Company capex policy and IFRS.\nPerform monthly review of items flagged as insurance spares against the FQM capex policy and IFRS.\nPropose improvements to existing capital accounting procedures.\nTrack submitted AFCEs daily to ensure they are approved and finalised timely.\nReview of open AFCEs and PCR projects (project activity and age, variance analysis.) weekly and following up with project owners and requesting for supplementary AFCEs were required.\nObtained signed project closure forms and take up of completed projects promptly.\nPerform month end reconciliation of CWIP GL balance (tying open projects listing to the CWIP GL balance).\nPrepare monthly project reports (Capex for the month, CapInAP etc.) for submission to the Group reporting team.\nRun and review depreciation for accuracy and completeness (no depreciable asset must be missed) before posting.\nReview the asset register and ensure all items that should be disposed of are disposed of after obtaining required approvals.\nReconcile the fixed asset register to the GL as part of month end procedures.\nPerform physical asset verification of mobile assets once every quarter on a round robin basis.\nEnsure proper and timely filing of electronic and physical documents relating to capital accounting. Every month.\nUpdate HFM capex tables and clear capex related validations.\nParticipate in capex budgeting and forecasting.\nCost Accounting and Budgeting:\nObtain an in-depth understanding of the Company’s operations to be able to identify key cost and production drivers.\nProvide ongoing guidance to end-users on cost coding and budget related matters.\nPrepare and post month end accruals for services received but not invoiced for, by working closely with departmental end-users.\nMaintain and enhance budgeting, forecasting and business review models to support changing operational requirements.\nPerform analytics on actual performance trends and explain variances against budget and forecast targets.\nCalculate and interpret key financial and nonfinancial ratios and performance indicators (e.g. cost/unit, usage/unit, output/hour, cost/employee etc.).\nHelp prepare monthly financial review packages and month/quarter-end close process, including providing commentary on variances.\nDeliver high-quality monthly business review presentations to senior management.\nA strong interest in learning SQL and Business Intelligence tools to enhance your ability to create ad-hoc reports.\nFinancial Accounting and Reporting:\nMaintain the general ledger, ensuring compliance with group accounting procedures and IFRS.\nMonthly reporting of financial results to Group;\nFinancial reporting and detailed review of the entire general ledger (i.e. trial balance).\nPrepare balance sheet reconciliations and ensure other team members perform reconciliation of the accounts they are responsible for.\nPreparation of budgets and quarterly rolling forecasts;\nEnsure transactions and balances with related parties are matching in HFM.\nPerform inventory valuation.\nPrepare and post accounting valuation entries (e.g. ARO, Stripping, Loan amortisation etc.).\nReview payments before submitting to Bank Signatories;\nEnsure proper filing of invoices and other supporting documents for transactions posted.\nPrepare financial statements in accordance with the Companies Act and IFRS.\nPrepare non-financial and statutory reports/returns (e.g. reports to Ministry of Mines, ZEITI, Bank of Zambia etc.);\nKey contact person for external and internal auditors, coordinating the process from start to finalisation.\nCoordinate monthly group reporting activities; ledger closure and variance analysis (reporting within agreed reporting timetable).\nReviewing processes and controls (e.g. on AP, AR, accruals, fixed assets) and developing models to improve effectiveness and efficiency;\nInterpret the Company’s accounting policies and procedures and be responsible for ensuring other Finance team members follow them.\nQualifications\nFull grade twelve (G12) school certificate.\nBachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Finance, Business Administration, or related field from a reputable institution. (Will be required to have completed professional accountancy studies by the end of the Trainee programme) OR a qualified accountant holding a professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ZICA, CA Zambia, ACCA, CIMA etc.). (An academic degree, in any field, in addition to the professional qualification, will be a plus.)\n All academic qualifications and results must be verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA)\nExperience\n1 - 2 years’ accounting experience is a plus but not mandatory\nBEHAVIOURAL TRAITS\nA critical thinker who is able to identify problem causes and formulate effective, efficient solutions.\nOne with an eye for detail and quality - able to identify exceptions in processes and data, and provide solutions quickly.\nA committed self-starter with strong work ethics and is able to complete tasks reliably with minimal supervision.\nA passionate, lifelong learner who seeks and seizes opportunities for continuous professional development.\nAn effective communicator who conveys important information in a concise and engaging manner.\nA flexible team player who can fit easily in a dynamic, busy environment.\nOPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS\nProficiency in Microsoft Office suite Excel: ability to build reports, dashboards, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.).\nVisit our website and register for instant job alerts at First Quantum Careers\nFollow us for the latest news at LinkedIn\nIf you are already a First Quantum employee, log into your Workday account > Career Hub > Browse Jobs to apply internally for this opportunity.","description_format":"text","description_chars":11791,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Mining","Non-ferrous Metals"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-10T03:47:47Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":59,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.593,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:9","stale_co","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/first-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/first-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T03:57:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6068,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2016245},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2016245"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffirst-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffirst-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffirst-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/first-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffirst-quantum-minerals-finance-trainee"}]}