Global Delivery Process Specialist: Transactional Finance at Anglo American

Job Description:

As the successful candidate, you will be responsible for the global standardization of processes in the Transactional Finance business area to ensure that performance level is achieved whilst ensuring that the necessary controls are adhered to:

Your key responsibilities will include:  

• Key driver to deliver, embed and grow the transformation strategy, in the Transaction Finance area, whilst collaborate working with the Global Process Owner to align processes to the global standards

• Defining the end-to-end process strategy through ongoing engagement with the GPO team to constantly enrich the roadmap by sharing key operational pain points and opportunities for improvement in key processes e.g. Source to Pay, Cash to Order, Cash Management and Master Data Management.

• Leads the delivering on GSS projects with the Transactional Finance service line

• Accountable for the operational effectiveness and efficiency of a global process in GSS

• Lead on ensuring that GSS end to end processes are in alignment to standards defined by the Global Process Owner (Group Finance).

• Accountable for ensuring that all GSS work instructions are aligned

• Manages and drives the implementation of agreed standard processes and controls in GSS

• Proactively assess possible risks within operations and accountable for the identification and implementation of mitigation actions,

• Champions continuous improvement and identification of process simplification opportunities.

• Analyses and monitor’s the impact of continuous improvement initiatives on team’s daily performance  

• Articulate business requirement and exceptions to policies, standard processes, and systems by submitting Change Requests to the appropriate governance forum.

• Accountable for submitting process amendments to GPO post reviewing and analysing results of continuous improvement initiatives and root cause analysis  

• Accountable for the team delivery, alongside the GSS Global Service Line leader

• Collaboratively engaging with BU teams and Group functions regarding Business As Usual (BAU) operational performance and issue resolution

• Management of the interface with Supply Chain to ensure the GSS process inputs are aligned to global standards, relating to Invoice to Pay

• Maintains an effective controls framework across process towers ensuring zero failures.

• Drives BAU delivery of control framework & quarterly / year end sign off of relevant attestations (e.g. JSE, ICFR)

This role is at a Band 6 level reporting to the Manager: Process Excellence & Automation and Finance & Performance Management.

Qualifications:

Qualifications required: 

•  Matric / Grade 12 and Tertiary Education (Business/Commerce/Finance)

Experience required:

• Knowledge of systems relevant to the environment

• 5 - 7 experience within a Shared Service Environment

• Project and Change management Process Knowledge

Additional Information:

• An incumbent must be cleared by the relevant credit checks

Additional information:

 Anglo American Limited, Global Shared Services – Group Finance  

Anglo American has set its Burning Ambition to be the most valued mining company by all its stakeholders by 2023.  A high-performing Global Shared Services (GSS) function, able to assist in driving the functional transformation agenda, as well as provide a broad range of critical support services to the business, is a key enabler to delivering this strategic objective. 

The transformation of the existing GSS organisation will lay the foundations for GSS ambition to be a strategic asset for Anglo American and is therefore a critical project on the roadmap to delivering the Burning Ambition.   

Core to delivering the GSS vision is a customer-centric approach to service management that clearly defines accountabilities across end-to-end processes and enables meaningful performance discussions between GSS, the Business Units and Functions.