Company Description:
Anglo American has set its Burning Ambition to be the most valued mining company by all its stakeholders by 2023. The Finance function enables Anglo American to achieve its strategic ambitions by driving optimal decision making and performance management whilst maintaining the highest standards of control and compliance, providing a workplace of the future to develop and retain talent
AA Finance is currently undergoing a transformation, driving a global functional agenda that will deliver improved commercial support for the business and global processes that balance risk mitigation with efficiency and effectiveness.
The purpose of Finance Business Improvement (FinBI) team is to govern and optimise the AA Finance global processes on a sustainable basis and to ensure that AA Finance has the requisite process, systems, data and people capabilities to deliver and exceed business expectations. The FinBI team includes the Finance Global Process Owner organisation together with essential supporting capabilities (e.g. Innovation, Automation, Continuous Improvement, Performance Measurement) required to identify, define and deliver opportunities for operational performance improvement.
Job Description:
The Finance Data Specialist will support the Finance Data Owner to deliver the data agenda for AA Finance, including the execution and maintenance of the data governance framework and the data design.
Key responsibilities:
- Drives the development, maintenance and governance of finance master data design;
- Acts as a data governance subject matter expert on key global initiatives (e.g. global chart of accounts rollout, master data management centralisation, global data governance establishment)
- Executes and maintains the data governance framework, including tracking risks against the framework and executing remediation plans to mitigate potential data risks;
- Identifies, maintains and updates roles and responsibilities of data owners, data stewards and data custodians;
- Produces and executes data governance reporting to identify and highlight data control risks, data quality issues and breaches for tabling at governance forums;
- Supports the preparation of business cases for data management initiatives and preparation of related documents, e.g. CorpCo submissions;
- Establishes and maintains finance data management principles, guidelines and standard operating procedures in alignment with Group Finance and regulatory requirements;
- Partners with Global Shared Services (GSS) to ensure the successful implementation and ongoing operation of data governance processes
- Co-ordinates and manages the Finance Data Governance forum including scheduling, preparation and documenting key decisions and outcomes;
- Provides support to the Finance Data Owner to execute and drive data management and governance improvement initiatives.
Skill Requirements for the Role
- Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset
- Experience driving data management and data governance transformation projects or change initiatives
- Experience co-ordinating forums and capturing key decisions / outcomes
- Experience within a Global Business Services environment would be beneficial
- Experience supporting or leading large and complex projects and embedding changes into business as usual processes
- Demonstrates well-developed analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Commitment to remain skilled and informed of best practice by utilising appropriate resources
Qualifications:
- Degree level qualification or equivalent
- Qualified Accountant (ACA or equivalent) preferred
- Project management qualification desirable (PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent)
- SAP FI certification desirable
Specific Knowledge Requirements
Operations:
- Broad accounting knowledge and experience, ideally with exposure to financial, management, tax and treasury accounting in a productive industry (e.g. mining, oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, pharmaceutical)
- Solid working knowledge of SAP FICO architecture, including Finance and cross-functional data objects, this could be from an end-user or key user role
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA preferred
- Working knowledge of other financial systems (e.g. Oracle Hyperion, Blackline, Anaplan)
- Knowledge of finance transformation and agile principles
- Knowledge of data management and data governance principles
- Knowledge of new data management technologies and their impact on operational activities
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