Metallurgical Accountant / Metal Accounting & Reconciliation Specialist (Gold Metal Accounting / Metal Reconciliation / Gold Recovery & CIL/CIP Processing) – Zambia

Reference Number: LB 10 11 2026

Job Description:

The Metallurgical Accountant will be responsible for independently monitoring, reconciling and reporting all gold movements across the mining and processing operations in Zambia. The role involves preparing daily, weekly and monthly metal balances, reconciling ore feed, grades, recoveries and actual gold production, and tracking physical gold inventories throughout the processing circuit, from ore feed to final doré. The successful candidate will investigate metal-accounting discrepancies, verify plant, laboratory and gold-room data, strengthen internal controls and identify potential metal losses, inventory variances and security risks. The role requires close collaboration with Processing, Metallurgy, Laboratory and Finance teams, while maintaining independence to escalate discrepancies directly to senior management.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly gold metal balances from ore feed through to final doré.
• Reconcile tonnes, head grades, tail grades, recovery and gold production.
• Track physical gold inventory across gravity/Knelson/Sepro concentrates, CIL/carbon, solutions, elution/EW, gold room and other WIP.
• Reconcile calculated gold recovery vs physical inventory vs actual gold produced.
• Independently verify plant, laboratory, sampling, weighing and gold-room data.
• Investigate unexplained metal-accounting variances and identify measurement, sampling, process or accounting errors.
• Establish and maintain robust metal accounting procedures, controls and reporting dashboards.
• Work closely with Plant Operations, Metallurgy, Laboratory and Finance while maintaining sufficient independence to escalate material discrepancies directly to senior management.
• Support periodic physical stocktakes and gold-in-circuit inventories.
• Strengthening controls around potential metal losses, discrepancies and security risks.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• We are looking for a hands-on metal accountant, not simply a reporting metallurgist. The candidate must be capable of independently establishing where the gold is within the entire processing circuit and reconciling this against theoretical and actual production.

If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to Lucia Baeza at [email protected]

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Lucia Baeza

Senior Executive Talent Consultant

Mining Division

CA Mining will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful, however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.

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