Specialist RDP and Loap Financial Modelling at Anglo American

Job Description:

Purpose:

Deliver effective cost and financial analysis and modelling to support value-based decision-making for Resource Development Plans (RDPs) and Life of Asset Plans (LoAPs) in the region.

Safety, Health & Environment

• Demonstrate behavior in line with health, safety, and environmental standards and with the Group’s values.
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections, and observations, and address any issues.

Performance & Delivery

Develop well-structured financial models of sufficient rigor, granularity, and flexibility to enable effective and equitable financial evaluation of the RDP cases in the region. This includes:

• Interpreting and modelling key cost drivers, correctly capturing correlations between cost drivers.
• Understanding and effectively modelling capacity constraints in the process.
• Ensuring sufficient rigor and detail for material areas but at the same time avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Creating flexibility for sensitivities to be run and the accurate calculation of the impact of changes to key cost drivers.
• Identifying and escalating risks that might affect successful delivery of RDP plans
• Supporting the review and simulation of various RDP options for planning as required.
• Implementing “Real Options Evaluation” and stochastic modelling as a complement of NPV criteria for complex projects.
• Identifying options for value maximization through intimate integration of the technical work and strategies with the financial analysis. This includes considering effective discipline integration and all synergies across the full value chain without compromising safety, health, and environmental impacts.

Once the RDP process has selected the single go forward case, build a more detailed, well-structured, activity-based effective financial model of the LoAP in collaboration with the LoAP team and the BU team managing the Asset. This includes:

• Ensuring the activity-based model is driven directly by the physicals generated and flexible enough to accommodate changes cost drivers and macroeconomic parameters.
• Providing detailed cost knowledge to enhance LoAP process inputs.
• Identifying and escalating all risks that might affect successful delivery of LoAP plans.
• Supporting the review and simulation of various LoAP trade-off and scenario analysis as required.
• Enabling the output to be effectively incorporated into the Business Unit 5yr business plans and budgets.
• Generating a post-tax evaluation for the asset for Group Valuation requirements
• Incorporating internal checks that ensure model integrity (e.g., all input data, mass balances close, working capital unwinds, operating costs, etc.)
• Integrating projects (expansion and/or replacement) into the LoAP model as required, so that the benefit associated with the project can be evaluated using the ‘optimize with, optimize without’ principle.
• Once the models are built, use the models to provide appropriate support and financial analysis to BU long-term financial planning and strategic analysis.
• Support reviews by the BU and T&S of the 5yr Business Plans and Budgets with a view to ensuring alignment of highest value strategies developed in the RDP’s and LoAP’s.
• Support the delivery of comprehensive cost and commercial KPAs / for BU reporting to ensure visibility of delivery on key metrics to secure medium and long-term value maximization
• Engage with peer stakeholders and ensure evaluation alignment for RDP and LoAP work efforts
• Provide guidance and contribute to advancing to best-in-class Financial Modelling and application of decision support and techno-economics.

People & Teams

• Demonstrate behavior in line with the Group’s values, standards, and a professional workplace.
• Participate as an effective team member in working collaboratively with your leader, peers, and relevant others (including from other teams) to achieve business goals.
• Develop your performance in line with the Group’s policies and systems (e.g., performance management) in order to achieve business goals. As part of this:
• Within the direction set by your leader, develop a clear and aligned plan.
• Foster a constructive and productive working environment.
• Drive delivery of objectives and being accountable for your work.
• Contribute to the broader business by working with others in such a way that it optimizes the overall business results, rather than just your team.

Compliance

• Identify any issues around these that interfere with your ability to complete work or meet the plan.
• Escalate issues to seek action and / or look for alternative solutions.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours Bachelors degree) in a relevant Finance or Engineering discipline.
• Microsoft Power App Suite, Python (Automation & Data Science) knowledge & experience would be an advantage