Specialist Business Integration at Anglo American

Job Description:
Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve finance business processes based on industry best practices.
• Work with Finance and IM specialists to optimise process and master data designs.
• Interact with operations management and other functions to understand functional reporting requirements and align solutions.
• Work with business teams based at multiple sites within South Africa and Zimbabwe, and other functions such as GSS, Payroll, Engineering and Supply Chain to understand business problems /needs that impact the Finance function, i.e. a system issue, enhancement requests or a new project.
• Collaborate with IM specialists to define appropriate technology solutions, ensuring effective integration of systems and functionality.
• Prepare business process flows and functional specifications for custom developments, reports, Interfaces, and workflows.
• Drive and support Finance Controlling and Costing projects across the transactional system (SAP S/4 ERP and SAP HCM), Reporting systems (SAP BW/SAP Datasphere/Power BI) as well as Budgeting & Planning systems (SAP SAC/BPC/EPM).
• Coordinate Unit, Integrated, Regression and User Acceptance testing activities, including scope identification and defect management, with Platinum business users ensuring quality and solution build in line with design intent.
• Responsible for ensuring system controls are in place in the ERP and other statutory feeding systems.  Perform system attestations with the relevant Group and local governance teams.
• Drive and support the adoption of finance system solutions by establishing and maintaining effective user training capabilities and managing support channels.
• Assist users with day-to-day system queries and incident management and coordinate incidents with IM and Offshore Support teams.

Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in Finance / Accounting / Information Systems
• Valid EB/Code 08 driver’s licence

Desirable:

• Post-graduate qualification in Business
• Certification in Project Management / SAP FICO / SAP BW

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in the fields of Information System and Technology
• Process re-engineering and business process modelling – minimum of 2 years must have been spent in any one field
• Working knowledge of financial reporting, planning and forecasting systems
• Relevant experience in a mining / industrial /resources environment
• Project management experience is desirable

Knowledge and Skills:

• Commercial systems: SAP ERP (FICO, MM, PM, PS, HCM modules), Analytics (SAP BW, Datasphere, PowerBI), Planning Systems (SAC, BPC, Anaplan,OneStream),
• Technical Systems: Mining Production Systems, Ariba, Blackline, Banking Systems, Isometrix, Time and Attendance