Finance & Project Analyst at Anglo American

Company Description:

Location: London, Johannesburg or Chile

Anglo American has a portfolio of world-class mining operations. We mine, process, move and market the essential ingredients that enable a cleaner, more connected world and that meet fast growing consumer-driven demands for products from smartphones to electric cars. Our basic materials build homes, offices, railways and airports, and our diamonds fulfil people's dreams.

We are at the forefront of change in our industry; innovating with purpose – pushing boundaries to create new opportunities and demonstrate our values.    As the custodians of precious natural resources – diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel – we rely on our high-performing teams to combine integrity, creativity and smart innovation with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.

Job Description:

The ideal candidate is someone who has strong analytical and reporting skills, has familiarity and comfort working with large datasets, is a self-starter who can run with ideas without needing a lot of direct oversight, builds strong and effective business relationships across the organisation, is flexible and adaptable to work in a project setting where requests for information are time sensitive and at times on short notice, and works well with team members across multiple geographies and time zones.

• Develop monthly and ad hoc analysis on programme budget vs. actuals and commitments

• Prepare and manage monthly accruals process

• Use financial tools to prepare reporting and provide analysis on budget performance

• Track programme benefits delivered vs. business case

• Work with programme team to implement approach for gathering data and reporting progress

• Execute Quality Assurance metrics data gathering and reporting process

Qualifications:

• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft suite of tools, especially Excel

• Experience or familiarity with SAP preferred

• Experience or familiarity with Power BI and Smartsheet a plus

• Experience or familiarity with navigating and extracting information from database tools required

• Self-starter, demonstrates curiosity & problem-solving to investigate financial & operational questions

• Strong stakeholder management skills; builds effective relationships with internal & external team

• Strong verbal, written and collaborative communication skills

• Flexibility to work with team members in multiple geographies and multiple time zones

• Adaptability to work in a project environment where requests for more information are time sensitive