Senior Specialist, Finance Business Partner

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Senior Specialist, Finance Business Partner at AngloGold Ashanti. The position serves as a trusted finance lead for one of the corporate functions, providing sharp financial insight to help senior leaders make faster, better-informed decisions. The role involves translating strategic plans into actionable numbers and options to improve performance and deliver value for money across a budget of approximately USD 450 million. Working with the Director of Finance Business Partnership, the specialist will establish the rhythm for performance reviews, forecasting, and cost leadership, ensuring consistent financial reporting. This is a high-visibility, corporate office-based role, operating as an individual contributor with no direct reports. It involves close collaboration with senior vice presidents, vice presidents, heads of corporate functions, external auditors, regulators, and advisors. The work environment is fast-paced, with peak periods during month-end, forecasting, and reporting cycles. **What you will do** * Partner with functional leaders as their finance lead, framing issues, testing options, and recommending clear decisions. * Deliver concise executive packs and decision papers that link functional performance to Group results. * Lead the monthly and quarterly performance cycle, including targets, variance analysis, and risk and opportunity tracking. * Build driver-based rolling forecasts that improve accuracy and give leaders earlier warning to act. * Drive cost leadership through demand challenge, benchmarking, process simplification, and automation. * Create transparent service-cost dashboards and fair, principles-based cost recharges. * Track the benefits of investments from business case to post-implementation review, and support portfolio trade-off decisions. * Champion a single source of truth for data and dashboards, working with finance systems teams to automate manual work. * Ensure strong governance and controls, aligned to delegation of authority and internal control over financial reporting (including SOX). * Build finance capability by standardising templates, upskilling stakeholders, and embedding lessons learned. * Turn plans into clear numbers, options, and actions that improve performance and deliver value for money across a budget of around USD 450 million. * Set the rhythm for performance reviews, forecasting, and cost leadership, and ensure everyone works from one trusted version of the numbers. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics. * Chartered Accountant (CA) and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) qualifications. * At least 8 years of progressive finance experience, including proven business partnering at executive level. * A track record of delivering results in cost leadership, investment value realisation, and complex change or transformation. * **Skills and Competencies:** * Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to translate strategy into profit, balance sheet, and cash outcomes. * Advanced Microsoft skills (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint). * Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and investment appraisal (NPV, IRR, scenario, and sensitivity analysis). * Excellent executive communication – turning complex analysis into simple, compelling messages. * Confident influencing and constructive challenge with senior leaders. * Skilled facilitation of performance forums that drive decisions and action, not just discussion. * Sound judgement, resilience under pressure, and the highest standards of integrity and confidentiality. **Who should apply** This role is ideal for a commercially minded accountant who is focused on shaping decisions rather than merely reporting on them. The successful candidate should be an individual contributor capable of closely collaborating with senior vice presidents, vice presidents, heads of corporate functions, external auditors, regulators, and advisors. They should be resilient and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with demanding periods around month-end, forecasting, and reporting cycles. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/senior-specialist-finance-business-partner-anglogold-ashanti Source: myjobmag

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• At least 8 years of experience.

• Power BI
• Microsoft Excel
• SAP
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