Enterprise Applications Finance Solutions Architect at Anglo American

Job Description:

Purpose:

• To lead the design and development of the Finance Solution Architecture and Data Architecture for the Platinum 411 migration to AOP on S4H, as well as the second phase of AOP on S4H.

Key Tasks:

Safety, Health & Environment

• Participate in the development of Safety & Health principles and embed them into the culture of the work teams.
• Take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health are paramount.
• Engage in relevant safety checks, interventions, and coaching.

Performance & Delivery

• Demonstrate an in depth understanding of SAP S4H capabilities, innovations, bolt-on products and user interface alternatives, with a primary focus on Financial Management.
• Be able to explain the SAP S4H product roadmap to the extent it is possible, to build this understanding into AOP roadmaps and overall AOP planning for the next five years.
• Demonstrate an understanding of what Group functions, especially Finance, have defined as their overall functional strategy, objectives, innovations, programmes and performance management approaches.
• Focus particularly on the Finance Transformation programme, Beyond Finance, to be able to correctly interpret overall business outcomes and requirements to translate these into AOP roadmaps and solution architecture.
• Understand Platinum requirements and be able to identify genuinely Platinum-specific business practices and rationales, and have the ability to articulate these and analyse these against the S4H roadmap and AOP current and future designs.
• Act as a custodian of the overall AOP Finance solution and data architecture and apply the appropriate governance checks and balances to ensure that the AOP template does not significantly deviate from the common Group solution.
• Timeously think through, compile and/or review design or position papers and make recommendations as to the preferred solutions, including standing firm on non-negotiable architecture and design standards with respect to the Platinum implementation - whilst offering reasonable and workable alternatives/ work arounds.
• Deliver the overall AOP on S4H Finance solution (designed, built and deployed) for Platinum.
• Deliver the second phase of S4H including innovations, new UI and selective SAP and third-party digital solutions.

People & Teams

• Contribute to a high-performing culture within the team that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity

Compliance

• Be accountable for the AOP Design Authority processes and ensure that these are not circumvented.
• Understand and apply both EA and GIM governance and control frameworks.
• Ensure that critical controls are embedded into designs with regards to data protection and privacy.
• Ensure that designs reflect the appropriate financial controls.
• Understand and apply GIM and EA programme and project management methodologies

Qualifications:

• ·An undergraduate qualification (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in a relevant information systems and technology discipline: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Business Science (Information Systems) or alternatively Relevant SAP and industry experience

Safety Knowledge:

• Provides a consistent outstanding role model in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety.

Industry Knowledge:

• Mining experience

Functional Knowledge:

• Financial Accounting
• Asset Accounting
• Project Accounting
• Capital Expenditure Management
• Management Accounting (Responsibility, Process/ Activity-Based Management)
• Financial Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting

Technical Knowledge:

• SAP S/4Hana Enterprise Management (overall knowledge)
• SAP S4H Financial Management capabilities
• SAP S4H Fiori Applications, especially Finance related
• SAP Cloud Platform capabilities and application (overall)
• Third Party Financial Management Applications
• SAP Analytics Cloud Planning capabilities

Closing Date: 17th, June 2022