Job Description

Company Description
-You’re talented and adaptable. That’s why you’ll fit in.

• As well as discovering, mining and processing many of the essential raw materials that enable, support and enhance modern life, our global business is involved in selling and marketing products – copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal, nickel and diamonds. Through our Marketing Business, we are able to offer innovative solutions to meet our customers’ specific challenges. This includes physical products, logistics and technical support, as well as pricing and financing solutions.

-This role leads the Finance Operations Services team in managing, establishing, and driving efficient, stable, and effective delivery of settlements to cash receipts and payments processes for Marketing business. This would include both commodity and non-commodity trade flow and working with stakeholders across the business to oversee and ensure fit for purpose processes and systems that ensures that finance invoicing, payments and receipts processes are in a timely, robust, and compliant manner with UK Corporate Reform (UKCR) requirements.

• Drive efficient, effective, UKCR compliant Finance operations – the role will plan, lead, implement, manage the team that manages Marketing daily operational finance activities in line with the standardize Anglo American beyond finance program. This may include creating invoicing, invoice management, counterparty collection management, payments to and from all counterparties (including across all commodities and non-commodity trade flow) and making sure that transactions are appropriately recorded within the ERP system. All this will need to be done within the framework of our financial controls and accounting policies. The Finance Services Manager works closely with Group Shared Services to formulate and implement robust controls and ensure strict compliance and documentation of key processes within Finance Services and framework of UKCR.
• Stakeholder ownership and management – The role will lead stakeholder relationship with the business, mainly the front office, driving business improvement and sales operations team to setup, stabilize and troubleshoot operational challenges. This role will also own the relationship with Global Shared Services and monitor and supervise the performance is operating as intended.
• Strategic direction and new business activities setup – The role would need to have a good understanding of trade flow and strategically evolve the financial services activities provided to ensure that remain fit for purpose and meets the business requirements. This would include leading the setup of finance services activities for new business activities with Marketing, including taking into consideration specific business requirement for geographic requirements, payment turnaround time and documentation flow that is required. This may also involve leading the setup and stabilizing the settlements activities framework within Marketing Finance.
• Technology transformation – working closely with IT, the role looks to innovate, develop, and implement technologies that improve control, increase information available for the business and automate finance activities. It needs to think differently about the work Finance does and how it gets done, including innovate validation checks and information flow in a compliant manner.
• Continuous improvement – create ways to measure and manage how well we perform as a team. This could range from creating system reports that show how many transactions we process or how quickly we operate, to running customer surveys that measure how good we are at delivering to their requirements. Amongst the team, this role creates a culture that actively looks to improve workflows and processes, minimizing control weaknesses while increasing speed and accuracy.
• Lead a team – as we look to create the future of finance, the Finance Manager- Services needs to guide and coach the team to deliver the above activities and identifying the skills they need and helping them develop. Suitably combine situations, people, and resources to achieve set objectives and stretch goals. Optimizing individual strengths, manages conflict effectively and build cohesive in the team to drive maximum optimization performance in the team.

• Qualifications
  -Degree in Business, Economics or Technical area
• Fluent understanding of commodity markets and trade flow processes
• Exceptional numerical and analytical skills
• Detailed understanding of finance processes and proven track record in delivering finance processes streamlining and standardization.
• Proficient skills with standard analytical software and tools
• Good conceptual grasp of complexity
• Strong communication skills
• Good English verbal and communications skills

Additional Information
-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. As a responsible miner – of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel – we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. What we offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Amazing opportunities for learning and growth - from technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our people
• We’re a large, successful multinational company and there are plenty of opportunities internally to move onwards and upwards too

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 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. #LI-YL2