Senior Commercial Specialist needed at De Beers Group

Job Description:
Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Consistently apply Safety & Health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• 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.
• Collate & discuss discipline input into OMS.
• Collaborate with discipline to develop risk register, proactively providing financial evaluation (cost/capital) of risk mitigation strategies.
• Provide risk input to Commercial Manager.
• 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.
• Facilitate in-depth discussion of deviations from plan, identifying and communicating operational root causes to financial performance.
• Collaborate with discipline management to identify cost improvement opportunities.
• Understanding of underlying op. processes and value drivers of respective operational disciplines.
• Prepare in-depth fin. data analysis and business cases to support improvement efforts.
• Drive delivery the sustainability activities as relevant to discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time.
• 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.
• Ensure all members within the teams have the knowledge and skills to perform their roles.
• Develop plans to address knowledge and skill gaps in the team through development and coaching.
• 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 at band 6 level and reporting to the Commercial Manager.

Qualifications:

• Postgraduate/Tertiary qualifications within Business Accounting, Finance, Economics

Experiences

• 5 years post qualification experience, of which 3 years should be within the mining industry
• Key value drivers within discipline’s value chain and interdependence of key levers
• Principles of how operational processes are classified according to the Operating Model with a focus on Work Management
• Project management fundamentals
• Understanding and ensuring compliance with data policy for their teams
• Appreciate privacy and safe handling of all kinds of data, sensitive or otherwise
• Commercial drivers of site performance
• Leadership tools for implementing a culture of purpose–led high performance and change

Closing Date:

• 02 June 2025