Senior Accountant Operations- Burgersfort at Anglo American

Job Description:
The Senior Accountant Operations is responsible for remaining up to date with key performance and financial matters at an operational level and providing support to corporate governance and financial control. The individual will develop a deep understanding of the KPIs and cost drivers that impact the Operations’ business performance. Utilising this and financial analysis techniques, the individual will provide insights and trends and have the ability to challenge the Operations’ on critical business issues impacting the day-to-day performance of the Operations for consideration of senior stakeholders.

• Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
• Reporting – Daily, weekly & monthly cost and performance reporting and presentations
• Cost analysis and cost/budget control
• Bonus Administration (Where applicable)
• Governance – Ensure overall compliance to policies and procedures and accounting standards etc.
• Risk Management – Support consideration of risk registers across disciplines through financial calculations.
• Site Performance improvement – Supply data analyses & insights for Com. Finance Specialist and prepare business cases and sensitivity analysis for improvement opportunities
• People & Teams – Support a purpose-led, high performing culture, applying the company values and principles of inclusion and diversity

Qualifications:

You will need the following:

• An Accounting degree or similar
• Strong financial knowledge; experience in resources/ mining industry

 Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience in a financial or analytical role
• Advanced Excel
• PowerPoint
• SAP
• Essbase / Hyperion advantageous

Behaviours

• Knowledge of financial and equity markets
• Ability to influence opinion at senior level
• Strong creative thinking and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and deliver high quality product within a tight deadline
• Comprehension of price sensitive information and consequences of potential miss-use
• Skills in financial analysis and modelling
• Monitoring of benchmarks and identification of performance gaps
• Presentation skills for meetings with all stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills needed to interact with analyst & investors
• PowerPoint and excel skills for analysis required for internal and external materials

Closing Date: 18th, March 2022