Specialist Incentives at Anglo American

Company Description:

Join us as a Specialist Incentives where you will play a key role in the effective delivery and implementation of end-to-end incentive programmes for the corporate office and operations.

Looking for adventure and an exciting future?

At Anglo American, we believe in extraordinary outcomes. That means we are always searching for new and better ways to do things, forging a new course in our industry towards greater efficiency, zero harm, and enhanced sustainability.
Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives".

Anglo American Platinum Limited

Our Platinum business mines, processes, and refines the entire range of platinum group metals (PGMs): platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. We are the one world’s leading primary producers of PGMs, which have a range of specialised applications that improve lives across the world from vehicle fuel cells to jewellery; dentistry to glassmaking; pacemakers to petroleum refining.

Job Description:

In the scope of work, the Specialist Incentives will work closely with Manager Rewards & Policy to make defined policies and standards come alive in the context of AAP’s strategy and operating environment. The key activities of this role are to:

• Implement and maintain the incentive programmes (Short- and long-term incentives)
• Localise Group incentive programmes, and ensure ongoing applicability of these
• Develop policies, procedures and guidelines to support the management of incentive
• Guide the operations on the application and implementation of operations-specific incentives
• Facilitate short-term incentive KPI confirmation/outcome and communication
• Manage AAP long-term incentives and employee share option scheme (ESOP), supporting administration, joiner, movers, leavers, vesting and settlements
• Manage the external service providers responsible for the share scheme and other incentives programmes
• Ensure appropriate controls related to the area of expertise are implemented and performed in accordance with the required governance structure requirements and in a timely manner, effectively and thoroughly documented
• Ensure incentive execution is compliant with the scheme rules and applicable legislation
• Responsible for maintaining the scheme rules and documentation, ensuring the information is up to date
• Act as a liaison between other internal teams, including CoSec, Finance, Tax, Payroll, HR and other stakeholders
• Conducts periodic assessments of incentive plans and any implemented changes; presents findings to management
• Communicates approved incentive program changes to management and participants, answering questions and providing additional training or support
• Responsible for coordinating major plan events with eligible employees, such as launches and maturities
• Partner with business and other HR departments to coordinate delivery of wholistic, considered solutions 

This role is at our Rosebank Corporate Office, at a Band 6 level reporting to the Manager Reward and Policy.

Qualifications:

• NQF 7 Bachelor’s degree/BTech /Advanced Diploma 

Experience: 

• 5 years previous related experience in mining is essential 
• Advance level of knowledge of employee incentives programmes
• Knowledge of Tax Advantageous
• Proficient in numeracy – incentives calculations
• Proficient in data analysis and strong detail orientated
• Proficient skills in applying business improvement techniques