QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

• Graduate degree (Accounting, Finance, Business or Commerce preferred) with a preference for qualified Chartered Accountant, CPA, Master’s degree or MBA or studying towards attainment.
• 2+ years of related experience with a preference for resources based experience.
• Ability to work with technical subject matter experts and grasp technical problems / complex issues and synthesise into business cases and analyses.

• Working with the Finance Business Partners for Mines and respective business stakeholders to review and process inputs to the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and quarterly on-cycle forecasts, focusing on driving performance against benchmarks.
• Analysis of the outputs of the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and on-cycle forecasts against budget and aid in identifying improvement opportunities leading to effective cost management and achievement of unit cost guidelines.
• Provide Finance Business Partner support to Asset Functions.
• Performing month end analysis and commentary covering price, volume and efficiency variances; and providing insights to Finance Business Partners to socialise with Operations teams
• Supporting Finance in improvement of the effectiveness of the function through integrated fit-for-purpose data analytics processes.
• Supporting the function in delivering data driven solutions to improve the businesses operation and financial performance.
• Confidently presenting ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Keeping up to date with data analytics trends and working with a Data Scientist and Finance Business Partners to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drive process efficiency and standardisation.
• From time to time, you may be required to support ad-hoc requests/queries and assist with resolution of complex requests and escalations.
  About You

To be successful in this role, you will have the following attributes:

• A curious and analytical mind.
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and stakeholder influencing skills, including demonstrated ability to use MS PowerPoint / Power BI to efficiently and effectively distil key information, communicate complex ideas and drive change.
• Demonstrated understanding of finance master data structures/architecture (e.g. cost centres, profit centres, hierarchies, WBS etc.) and data requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to collect/extract, interpret and review financial information.
• Demonstrated commercial/operational thinking and experience making value driven business decisions for a commercial return.
• Demonstrated experience working in either a SAP or similar large ERP system and using data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI) to profile large datasets.
• Advanced MS Excel skills to work efficiently and effectively with large volumes of data. Experience using Analysis for Office will be advantageous.
• Track record of championing process improvements.
• Demonstrated understanding of budgeting and forecasting, inventory costing models and /or joint venture accounting is advantageous.
• Previous experience in Budgeting and forecasting is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in project management is advantageous.