Specialist - Finance Business Partnering (9 Month FTC)

This is a 9 month Fixed Term Contract

The purpose of Anglo American Marketing is to sustainably maximise cash flows from the marketing of Anglo American products and services.

The Finance team empowers the business to achieve its ambition. We aim to provide analysis that shapes strategy and drives better decision making, while providing the independent viewpoint that ensures the business continues to operate in the interests of all its stakeholders.

Purpose

The Finance Business Partner uses commercial acumen, analytical skill and storytelling to provide decision support and challenge that ensures the business takes decisions that maximise value.

The role steps beyond simply providing analysis and insight – the Business Partner is an architect of organizational change, either optimizing existing business models or acting as ‘intrapreneur’ and designing new ones. With end-to-end visibility, understanding of the entire business and technical knowledge, the Business Partner engages strongly with stakeholders and works jointly with other teams on strategy & planning, innovation, market research and business model change. They piece together information from different sources to develop a truly informed picture of how value is created and risked across the organization, recognising inherent trade-offs as businesses deploy different capitals. Telling the story observed in the analysis can be both via ad hoc and regular reporting.

Key responsibilities include

Business advisory

• Proactively engage with the front / mid-office teams to frame business questions (which can be a query from the business or self-started)
• Originate data from a variety of internal and external sources and in a variety of fields, including operational, financial and accounting.
• Use Business Intelligence tools to prepare and analyse data and identify insights on key performance drivers of performance to support decision making
• Report the insights and recommend strategic and tactical action, suggesting opportunities for improvement and value delivery.

Financial planning

• Develop and implement models to forecast financial results and position, enabling working capital and cash decisions and supporting regular outlook and budget processes.
• Embed a standardized financial forecasting process across Marketing - prepare and process data/information required for actual, forecast, budget, interim and year end reporting to support the reporting of results for the commodity and the Production BU.
• Evolve and develop processes to improve forecast accuracy and support decision making

Performance management

• Design and prepare regular and ad hoc performance reports, including analysis and supporting information to meet internal requirements and deadlines for Marketing, related business units and Group.
• Drive a collaborative process that provides visibility across the value chain performance and enables improvement in performance management.
• Conduct analysis and provide insight into performance trends and results to identify value/improvement opportunities.
• Work with Finance Operations to coordinate performance data from all relevant sources and develop on-demand information for users. Educate users on how to better use information to gain their own insights through ‘citizen data science’.
• Work closely with Group Finance and Investor Relations to improve internal and external understanding of performance and the Marketing Narrative.

Project management and support

• Lead or support cross-disciplinary teams in ideating, designing and implementing ad hoc projects, including establishing new corporate or financing structures, executing M&A deals or securing approval for new lines of business.
• Ensures changes are embedded into business-as-usual process

Learning and development

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, big data thinking and collaborative ‘smart team’ working
• Stay up to date with technology and leverage latest software tools in analysis and reporting.