Specialist, Commercial Finance (P&D)

We’re re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. That includes the lives of everyone who works for Anglo American. We strive to be a great company where employees are happy and inspired to do their best work. A place where every colleague can grow, develop and realise their potential. To live up to our Always with Purpose employee value proposition, we’re putting the development and growth of colleagues first by ensuring everyone at Anglo American has the career experience they deserve.

We are searching for a Finance Specialist to deliver high-quality financial governance and decision support to the Projects & Development (P&D) function by owning core reporting and close processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and integrity of financial data across systems such as SAP and Planview. In this role, you will provide clear, insightful analysis and commentary to enable informed decision‑making, supporting the delivery of reliable, decision‑ready financial outputs. The role plays a critical part in underpinning Group investment decisions and capital allocation discussions, contributing oversight and insight across a complex portfolio of 180+ projects managed within P&D.

Contract Core Responsibilities

• Deliver end‑to‑end quarterly reporting outputs, ensuring submissions are complete, accurate, reconciled to source systems and submitted on time.
• Work with project teams and Business Finance to gather inputs, resolve gaps and ensure consistency across submissions.
• Analyse financial outputs, identify key drivers, and provide clear commentary aligned to underlying data.
• Identify risks, opportunities and data inconsistencies, and proactively raise these with clear recommendations.
• Support wider Group P&D deliverables, including Board materials and strategy packs, ensuring outputs are robust, aligned to source systems and clearly support decision‑making.
• Coordinate the monthly close across P&D, ensuring activities including accruals are completed accurately and on time.
• Support forecasting and planning cycles, tracking actuals versus plan and explaining variances.
• Take day‑to‑day ownership of Planview as the Group capital reporting system, ensuring data quality, structure and outputs are fit for financial reporting and governance purposes.
• Ensure alignment between Planview, SAP and reporting outputs, resolving inconsistencies that affect reporting integrity.
• Act as a reliable finance contact for P&D teams, PMOs and Business Finance, providing clear guidance on processes and expectations.

Qualifications

• Degree + CFA/CA/ACA/similar and/or MBA and/or similar professional financial training programme.
• Strong process management and ability to run end‑to‑end activities with accuracy and discipline.
• Experience improving processes, including standardisation and automation.
• Strong attention to detail and focus on data quality, integrity and controls.
• Solid understanding of financial planning, reporting and controllership cycles.
• Ability to analyse financial information and clearly explain key drivers to non‑finance stakeholders.
• Proficient in financial systems (e.g. SAP) and planning/reporting tools; Planview experience advantageous.
• Skilled in reconciling data across systems to establish a single source of truth.

Benefits

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.