Anglo American plc is a leading global mining company with headquarters in London, England. It has a portfolio of high-quality resource assets, focusing on products essential for modern life and the global energy transition. Anglo American operates globally, with operations in Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. The company’s strategy is focused on portfolio simplification and growth in specific “future-enabling” commodities.

Job Description

As our Commercial Analyst your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Support a safe and healthy work environment where workers, external service providers, and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
• Adhere to Housekeeping principles to ensure compliance with environmental requirements.
• Support the compliance with MHSA in the workspace.
• Active participation in SLAMs, HPHs, relevant Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.

Performance and Delivery

Planning and Budgeting:

• Assist the Specialist Operational Finance with breaking financial targets down to site work areas.
• Provide operational support to the budgeting process on-site, collating budget inputs and supplying analyses on behalf of CM and Specialist Operational Finance.
• Support business case modelling for on-site SIB capital, facilitating decision-making.
• Collate financial forecasts for the discipline.

Supply “over cost” expenditure information as Finance requires in a timely and justified manner through the analysis of monthly cost reports to eliminate deviation from the budget.

Risk Management:

• Provide financial calculations to facilitate cost/capital consideration in service strategies.
• Supply reports to facilitate transparent communication of financial and business risks.
• Provide operational support for site financial audits.

Reporting and Control:

• Collate discipline financial inputs across disciplines on behalf of the Specialist Operational Finance.
• Draft effective financial reports and analyses.
• Monitor site financial performance, highlighting deviations to Specialist Operational Finance.
• Ensure financial evaluation of business initiatives (cost and revenue ideas) to avoid deviations.
• Responsible for Financial Analysis and evaluation of business drivers to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Commercial Continuous Improvement:

• Support implementation of Commercial improvement initiatives (e.g., dashboard roll-out).
• Feedback on improvement needs and ideas (e.g., in financial systems) to CM.

Site Performance Improvement:

• Supply data analyses & insights for Specialist Operational Finance discussions with disciplinePrepare business cases and sensitivity analyses for improvement opportunities.
• Support quantification of the financial impact of improvement measures, as well as on-site integration.
• Supply required information/input data to GSS / Financial CoE.
• Validate received output from GSS (e.g., standard reports) before further processing.

On-site Integration:

• Supply required information/input data to GSS / Financial CoE.
• Validate received output from GSS (e.g., standard reports) before further processing.
• This role is in the Commercial (CML) NC department on a band 7.9 (C5) level reporting to the Specialist Operational Finance.

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Higher National Qualification in Business Accounting/Finance/ or Economics on NQF5
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 3-5 years’ experience in cost accounting and financial analysis. Experience in a mining environment is preferred.
• Thorough understanding of governance & compliance practices.
• Strong grasp of financial control techniques.
• Knowledge of applicable accounting standards and principles.
• Proficiency in Computer Literacy: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), SAP.