The strategy of Anglo American is to secure, develop and operate a portfolio of high quality and long-life resource assets to deliver leading shareholder returns. This can be achieved through innovative practices and technologies, in the hands of our world-class people, working towards a common purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.
Finance enables Anglo American to achieve its strategic ambitions by driving optimal decision making and performance management whilst maintaining the highest standards of control and compliance, providing a workplace of the future to develop and retain talent.
The Group Financial Planning & Analysis Team supports and influences the group wide performance agenda by characterising Anglo American portfolio performance and providing key advice to the SVP Finance & Performance Management, Group Financial Director, business CEOs, business CFOs, ELT and Group CEO.
Purpose
The purpose of this role empower decision-making and business resilience through provision of impactful analysis, insights and challenge, identifying risks and opportunities and driving efficient, dynamic, forward-looking integrated planning and performance management.
The Work – Key Outputs and Accountabilities
- To deliver insightful on time, accurate and complete monthly, quarterly and annual reporting, forecasting and budgeting, for multiple businesses explaining performance against target and specific KPIs.
- To provide value adding financial/operational analysis to facilitate identification of business improvement opportunities and management of risk at the Group portfolio level.
- To support the delivery of an effective Group planning and budget processes and influencing the design of new processes and systems and subsequent implementation.
- To provide bespoke analysis on critical business issues in support of performance analysis deliverables prepared for Board, ELT and other recipients.
- To maintain a wider understanding of the market environment and economic environment that impact Group Anglo Strategy and multiple Business unit operations.
- To collaborate with multiple businesses to improve quality and accuracy of submissions and to drive enhanced understanding of businesses’ performance.
- To review and continually improve the Group’s performance reporting activities for both efficiency and effectiveness to ensure outputs are fit for purpose.
- To provide advice, insight and analysis to other Group Functions (e.g. Investor Relations, Group Treasury, Group Strategy) on Group and business performance.
- To collaborate with other functions in Group Finance and Performance Management to ensure compliance with the Group’s accounting policies and processes, and in support of the Group’s external reporting obligations.
People & Teams
- Demonstrates behaviour in line with the Group’s values, standards and a professional workplace.
- Participates as an effective team member in working collaboratively with their leader, peers and relevant others (including with business teams) to achieve business goals.
- Monitors the activities of their team which involve other teams and appropriately intervene to address any cross-team issues.
- Contributes to the broader business by working with others in such a way that it optimises the overall business results, rather than just their team’s.
Compliance
- Ensures compliance and alignment with Anglo American values.