Commercial Analyst needed at Anglo American

Job Description

As our Commercial Analyst your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Support a safe and healthy work environment where workers, external service providers, and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
• Adhere to Housekeeping principles to ensure compliance with environmental requirements.
• Support the compliance with MHSA in the workspace.
• Active participation in SLAMs, HPHs, relevant Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.

Performance and Delivery

Planning and Budgeting:

• Assist the Specialist Operational Finance with breaking financial targets down to site work areas.
• Provide operational support to the budgeting process on-site, collating budget inputs and supplying analyses on behalf of CM and Specialist Operational Finance.
• Support business case modelling for on-site SIB capital, facilitating decision-making.
• Collate financial forecasts for the discipline.

Supply “over cost” expenditure information as Finance requires in a timely and justified manner through the analysis of monthly cost reports to eliminate deviation from the budget.

Risk Management:

• Provide financial calculations to facilitate cost/capital consideration in service strategies.
• Supply reports to facilitate transparent communication of financial and business risks.
• Provide operational support for site financial audits.

Reporting and Control:

• Collate discipline financial inputs across disciplines on behalf of the Specialist Operational Finance.
• Draft effective financial reports and analyses.
• Monitor site financial performance, highlighting deviations to Specialist Operational Finance.
• Ensure financial evaluation of business initiatives (cost and revenue ideas) to avoid deviations.
• Responsible for Financial Analysis and evaluation of business drivers to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Commercial Continuous Improvement:

• Support implementation of Commercial improvement initiatives (e.g., dashboard roll-out).
• Feedback on improvement needs and ideas (e.g., in financial systems) to CM.

Site Performance Improvement:

• Supply data analyses & insights for Specialist Operational Finance discussions with disciplinePrepare business cases and sensitivity analyses for improvement opportunities.
• Support quantification of the financial impact of improvement measures, as well as on-site integration.
• Supply required information/input data to GSS / Financial CoE.
• Validate received output from GSS (e.g., standard reports) before further processing.

On-site Integration:

• Supply required information/input data to GSS / Financial CoE.
• Validate received output from GSS (e.g., standard reports) before further processing.
• This role is in the Commercial (CML) NC department on a band 7.9 (C5) level reporting to the Specialist Operational Finance.

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Higher National Qualification in Business Accounting/Finance/ or Economics on NQF5
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 3-5 years’ experience in cost accounting and financial analysis. Experience in a mining environment is preferred.
• Thorough understanding of governance & compliance practices.
• Strong grasp of financial control techniques.
• Knowledge of applicable accounting standards and principles.
• Proficiency in Computer Literacy: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), SAP.