Commercial Finance Specialist Job Vacancy at Anglo American – South Africa

Job Description:

You support site operational leadership team members, by bringing a financial lens to operational decisions. You will also be responsible for:

Performance & Delivery

Planning & Budgeting:

• Assist and advise discipline Managers & Superintendents to develop budgets, e.g., by providing insights into financial data and consolidating inputs
• Provide business case modelling support for on-site SIB capital, make recommendations on capital expenditure decisions to the disciplines
• Support preparation of financial forecasts that includes forward looking risks and opportunities

Risk Management:

• Collaborate with discipline to develop risk register, proactively providing financial evaluation (cost/capital) of risk mitigation strategies
• Provide discipline-specific financial reports and analysis

Reporting & Controls:

• Serve as contact point for financial information & detailed advice for finance discipline teams
• Provide discipline-specific financial reports and analysis
• Support tracking of discipline financial performance against plan, enriching financial reports with operational commentary discussed with disciplines

Commercial Continuous Improvement:

• Identify Commercial improv. opportunities, enabling effective partnering
• Support implementation of Commercial improvement initiatives (e.g., dashboard roll-out)

Site Performance Improvement:

• Collaborate with discipline management to identify cost improvement opportunities
• Prepare in-depth fin. data analysis and business cases to support improvement efforts

Onsite Integration:

• Monitor timely/quality GSS and financial CoE delivery towards discipline

Sustainability & Social

• Drive delivery the sustainability activities as relevant to discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time

People & Teams

• Support the development of, and ultimately implement, a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the teams that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity

Compliance

• Manage compliance of the teams within work area with external (legislative, regulatory, permitting) local requirements as a minimum level of site performance

This role is in the Finance Department at a band 6 and reports to the Senior Manager Operations Finance. 

Commercial Finance Specialist Job Vacancy at Anglo American – South Africa

Qualifications:

• Postgraduate qualification within Business Accounting, Finance, Economics (CIMA / CA)
• CA (SA) with +3 years’ post articles relevant experience (advantageous)
• SAP (advantageous)
• Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills

Knowledge and Skills: 

• Operational skills
• Data, Analytics and Insights
• Commercial
• Monitoring and improving operational processes.
• Medical fitness assessment is required