Business Analyst MS and Business Building at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Report into the Portfolio Management & Investment Analysis team and execute as a business partner to the Energy Marketing & Sales (EM&S), Chemicals Southern Africa M&S (Chems SA M&S) and Business Building portfolios.
• Deliver on business analysis and capital portfolio management to enable optimal investment decisions in line with the company strategy.
• Responsible for informed portfolio formulation and the facilitation of effective decision-making through enforcing standardised and fit for purpose investment criteria, governance processes, rigorous value-adding investment assurance and applicable business frameworks.

Key Accountabilities

Portfolio Management:

• Responsible for the allocated capital portfolios, including rolling capital plan submissions, monthly reporting, and active capital management.
• Engage with business leaders and stakeholders on capital performance and provide feedback and guidance in relation to capital availability, updated forecasting and funding request planning.
• Support the custodianship of the Delegation of Authority (DoA), capital and development funds governance and business processes, and the functioning of the Capital Investment Forum.

Business Track and Investment Analysis:

• Accountable for the development of business track for capital projects.
• Deliver accurate investment and business analysis: project due diligence; business case evaluations; risk-based and integrated economic models; post implementation audits; transactions; and asset reviews.
• Facilitate the delivery of accurate and concise funding applications to the delegated authority, together with the management of stakeholder expectations.

Governance:

• Apply fit-for-purpose governance in line with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and the Delegation of Authority (DoA).
• Standardise, develop and maintain processes and systems to support effective and efficient decision making and active capital management.
• Implement and embed developed processes and systems in the portfolio and respective business areas.

People management:

• Build and maintain positive relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communication processes and knowledge management within the team, delegated portfolio, and relevant stakeholders.
• Support teamwork and manage self to enable timely delivery of work requirements and sustain high performance.

Continuous Improvement:

• Leverage working relationships with stakeholders to generate insights that contribute to establishing and implementing improvements.
• Drive optimisation and digitalisation opportunities to enable greater efficiencies in team delivery.
• Seek prospects for personal growth - implement and track a personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.

Formal Education

• Formal Education: University Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, Business or Finance

Min Experience

• Minimum Experience: 5+ experience with exposure / experience in business track and investment analysis, project execution, portfolio and stakeholder management