Senior Accountant Operations at Anglo American

Job Description

The Senior Accountant Operations will develop a deep understanding of the KPIs and cost drivers that impact our business performance.

You will also be responsible to:

• Work side-by-side with discipline Managers & Superintendents to develop budgets, e.g., by providing insights into financial data and consolidating inputs
• Support preparation of financial forecasts, taking into account past performance and forward looking risks and opportunities
• Support tracking of discipline financial performance against plan
• Collaborate with discipline to develop risk register, proactively providing financial evaluation (cost/capital) of risk mitigation strategies
• Collaborate with discipline management to identify cost improvement opportunities
• Perform quality check on variance analysis
• Provide & discuss discipline-specific financial reports
• Ensure that processes are established and standardized to allow for trend analysis, correct pigeon holing, feasibility studies, and cost control
• Ensure application / adherence / communication of standard costing rules
• Training, mentoring and support of all staff

This role is in the Operations Department and at a band 6 level reporting to the Financial Specialist.

Qualifications

You will need the following:

• Relevant degree in finance or related
• CFA, CA(SA) or ACMA will be advantageous

Experience needed:

• At least 5 years’ experience in a financial or analytical role preferably within the mining industry
• Managing a team/leadership experience
• Excel will be needed for the role
• SAP (ERP) experience
• BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

Closing Date: 13th, May 2022