Global Commercial Analyst

Company Description

Global Shared Services (GSS) is a critical asset for Anglo American enabling the delivery of functional service work for Finance & People Services to all Business Unit and Group Functions.

The vision for Global Shared Services (GSS) is to be an exceptional Shared Services organisation, with inspired people, delivering flawless processes, enabled by great technology.

There are three key strategic pillars that GSS is currently aligned to and delivering towards, namely, customers, colleagues and communities.

Proactive and meaningful stakeholder engagement, which includes employees, communication and effective change management are key success factors in the GSS journey.

The primary accountabilities will include

• Provision of accurate and timeous monthly management reports and budgetary control, applying data analytical tools and techniques to generate insights and effectively present information to support GSS PS decision-making
• Collaborate with GSS PS team members to ensure that reported measures and costs accurately reflect service line activities
• Monitor service line cost performance and proactively highlight risks, variances, and areas of concern, recommending corrective actions where required
• Provide end-to-end cost management support for GSS PS global teams, including monthly actuals, reforecasts, and annual budgeting processes
• Track and report against savings targets, identifying variances, risks, and opportunities for both direct and indirect savings
• Ensure completion of monthly commercial processes across all regions, including review of accruals, journals, reallocations, recharges, and labour costing to ensure accurate expenditure reporting
• Support capital expenditure (CapEx) planning, analysis, and reporting requirements
• Manage and monitor global headcount costs, ensuring alignment with budgets and forecasts
• Support the GSS PS Commercial Business Partner in the preparation of global reforecasts and annual budgets across all regions
• Support finance processes by ensuring monthly forecasts and outlooks for GSS PS are accurately prepared, submitted to finance in line with consolidation timelines to allow them to upload into SAP
• Monitor, analyse, and provide insights from activity-based costing and productivity analysis to support informed decision-making and drive operational efficiency
• Ensure that Service Change Requests (SCRs) are in place for all service line activities and changes, and provide costing for new services transitioning into GSS PS
• Coordinate with Service Line leads regarding purchase requisitions (PRs) and manage vendor invoice processes for GSS PS
• Support the GSS PS Commercial Business Partner in maintaining effective risk, compliance, and control frameworks, including Risk Matrix, Business Continuity Plans, incident management, SOX, and POPIA requirements.

Generic Activities

Health, Safety & Environment:

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with health, safety, and environmental standards and with the Group’s values
• Set the health, safety and environmental expectations for your team and monitor behaviour so that it meets the required standards
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections and observations, and address issues as part of demonstrating safety leadership.

Leadership

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with the Group’s values, standards and a professional workplace.
• Provide leadership to and develop the performance of your team 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 for your team
• Foster a constructive and productive working environment
• Monitor the work of each team member and provide regular and useful feedback to them on how they are performing
• Drive delivery of objectives holding team members to account for their work
• Participate as an effective team member in collaborating with your leader, peers and relevant others (including from other teams) to achieve business goals
• Monitor the activities of your team which involve other teams and appropriately intervene to address any cross-team issues.

Financial

• Contribute to the development of the budget
• Monitor your costs against budget and either address, or advise your manager of, any variances of note
• Identify any opportunities for improved cost management and either address these, or raise them with your manager, as appropriate.

Work Processes

• Fully understand the policies, processes and systems which apply to your team’s work and provide leadership so that your team works within these
• Identify any issues around these that interfere with the ability of your team to complete work or meet the plan/strategy. For processes within your authority, make the required changes. For others, escalate these issues to seek action and / or look for alternative solutions.

Qualifications

• A relevant Bachelor degree qualification with a formal accounting/finance qualification e.g. CIMA, CMA.

EXPERIENCE

• 3 years previous experience in management accounting support for a large multinational or global business
• Good operational experience or knowledge of SAP S/4HANA.
• Understand stakeholder requirements for new cost reporting requests and advise on best practice approaches to report development

Additional Information

What we offer

• When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package. But more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We’re a large, successful multinational company – and we’re still growing all the time.

Who we are?

• Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.

Inclusion and Diversity

• Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

How we are committed to your safety

• Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies – from drones to data analytics – that are helping to make mining safer

How to apply

• To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.