Commercial Finance Specialist

Company Description
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Finance Specialist to add significant operational improvements that are required to achieve the company’s ambition of being the most valued mining company.

**Be part of the team. The team that makes it happen.**

At Anglo American we are committed to making lasting positive change for colleagues, host communities, consumers and our planet. We are working towards extraordinary outcomes, always searching for better ways to do things, questioning the status quo and innovating with purpose.

So, we seek talented individuals who can bring new ideas and fresh approaches to help us in our quest.

**Platinum**

**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 Commercial Manager.**

**Qualifications
- You must have**:

- 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

**Additional Information
- What we offer**

When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package. But more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We’re a large, successful multinational company - and we’re still growing all the time.

**Who we are?**

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.

**Inclusion and Diversity**

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

**How we are committed to your safety**

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies - from drones to data analytics - that are helping to make mining safer

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