- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification Bachelors , National Certificate
- Experience 3 – 5 years
- Location Northern Cape
- Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
Commercial Ops Planning Advisor at Anglo American
Commercial Ops Planning Advisor
Job Description:
As our Commercial Ops Planning Advisor of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Prioritize safety and health in all team interactions, leading by example to achieve zero harm and prevent fatalities.
- Lead by example, fostering a safety-first culture.
- Encourage open reporting of unsafe behaviours without fear of consequences.
- Identify and address risks in the workplace using discipline-specific plans and operational risk management systems.
- Use operational risk management systems.
- Monitor critical control performance and integrate them into daily work practices.
- Establish and maintain Safety and Health systems within the work area.
- Conduct safety interactions, regular visual inspections, and workplace audits.
- Gather data for safety reports and KPIs.
- Report and rectify deficiencies.
Conduct regular safety audits to ensure compliance and address any issues.
- Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
Performance and Delivery
Planning and Budgeting:
- Work side-by-side with discipline managers and superintendents to develop budgets, e.g., by providing insights into financial data and consolidating inputs.
- Provide business case modelling support for on-site SIB capital and recommend capital expenditure decisions to the disciplines.
The Work: Key Outputs and Accountabilities
- Support the preparation of financial forecasts, considering past performance and forward-looking risks and opportunities.
- Collate and discuss discipline input into OMS.
Risk Management:
- Collaborate with discipline to develop a risk register, proactively providing a financial evaluation of risk mitigation strategies (costs and capital).
- Discuss risk input with CM, enabling transparent upward communication.
Reporting and Controls:
- Serve as a contact point for financial information and detailed advice for disciplines.
- Provide and discuss discipline-specific financial reports.
- Support tracking discipline financial performance against the plan, enriching financial reports with operational commentary discussed with disciplines.
- Facilitate in-depth discussion of deviations from plan, identifying and communicating operational root causes to financial performance.
Commercial Continuous Improvement:
- Proactively identify commercial improvement opportunities, enabling effective partnering.
- Support implementing commercial improvement initiatives (e.g., dashboard roll-out).
Site Performance Improvement:
- Collaborate with discipline management to identify cost-improvement opportunities.
- Gain a deep understanding of the underlying operational processes and value drivers of discipline.
- Prepare in-depth financial data analysis and business cases to support improvement efforts.
On-site Integration:
- Monitor timely and quality GSS and financial CoE delivery towards discipline.
Sustainability and Social:
- Drive the delivery of sustainability activities relevant to the discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time.
- Put sufficient physical and financial resources in place and coordinate the delivery of Sustainable Mining Plan commitments relevant to the discipline.
- Manage compliance with environmental and social requirements relevant to the discipline, including stakeholder commitments.
- Identify environmental and social risks triggered by or impacting discipline and propose mitigation techniques to incorporate into the asset risk management approach.
- Identify environmental and social opportunities relevant to the work area and then introduce and monitor sustainability initiatives.
- Foster awareness of environmental and social sustainability within the team and consider the full impact of decisions.
- Participate in stakeholders’ engagements as relevant to the discipline and act consistently with sustainability expectations.
Compliance:
- Manage the teams’ compliance within the work area with external (legislative, regulatory, and permitting) local requirements as a minimum level of site performance.
- Adhere to Anglo American compliance requirements and ensure teams’ compliance within the work area.
This role is in Commercial (CML) NC department on a band 9 level reporting to MOP Specialists
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Business Accounting, Finance, Economics
- B-Degree in Business Accounting, Finance, Economics
- SA Drivers Licence
Technical Knowledge
- 3-5 years of experience in a commercial setting.
- Understand key value drivers within the discipline’s value chain and interdependence of critical levers.
- Proficiency in the basics of project management.
- Awareness of new technologies and their impact on operational activities within the role’s scope.
- Knowledge of various tools and methodologies to improve business processes.
- Understand data policies, including privacy and safe handling of sensitive data.
- Awareness of critical digital tools and concepts, particularly those related to the AA infrastructure.
- Understand the digital landscape within operations.
- Knowledge of essential financial metrics and budgeting tools.
- Familiarity with legislative, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
Closing Date:
- 29 August, 2025
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Anglo American on www.angloamerican.com to apply

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