Principal - Im Programme Management (Finance/tax

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.

**Job Description**:
**PURPOSE**

Accountable to specific Anglo Marketing Business Divisions with a responsibility to both enhance and support IM Tools and Systems in-line with the Anglo Marketing Roadmap & Architecture.

**KEY TASKS**

**Performance & Delivery**
- Maintenance of a ‘Book of Work’ in a well-structured form to give both Business and IM Stakeholders transparency on progress and prioritisation.
- The ability to be able to be a key influencer in the prioritisation process with senior management, where key drivers may include Safety, Security, Audit, P&L or software performance factors.
- Ensure that Global Stakeholders are kept abreast of project progress and conflicts & issues via the chairing of committees such as working groups and steering meetings.
- Be able to provide leadership, mentoring & effective delegation to more junior members of staff and provide coaching on performance in line with career goals.
- Ensuring that any systems falling within the remit of the role remain compliant and fulfil any audit requirements that Anglo must comply with, both internal and external
- Thought leadership - drive workshops and sessions that look to innovate using emerging technologies or business processes.
- Be able to provide SME knowledge both from a business or technical perspective should the Support Team escalate BAU or operational issues/incidents.
- Provide training & workshops to new members of staff or conduct workshops to business groups not familiar with the toolsets that IM are implementing.
- Be the conduit with external vendors and manage scope of new work, change requests and opex budgets
- Be ‘hands on’ should the project needs arise, which may involve doing detailed technical or business analysis, configuring tools, testing creating prototypes or ‘proof of concepts’.
- Liaising with the wider IM groups such as Cloud or Data lake to be able to articulate how Marketing IM systems fit into the broader Anglo landscape.
- Contribute the expanding collateral of the knowledge base, specifically around tools and process that have been implemented.
- Manage change by building close relationships with stakeholders and putting together clear transition plans that are cognisant of adoption and manage risks.
- Be abreast of changes in the wider industry both in Commodities/Mining but within technology and incorporate best practice where applicable to tools and processes within the Anglo domain.
- Matrix/task Management of: Business Analysts & Developers

**Qualifications**:
**Formal qualifications**:

- An undergraduate qualification (Bachelor's degree or equivalent), ideally in a technical degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Pure Science).
- Desirable: It would be advantageous to have a post graduate qualification in a relevant discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

**Role-specific knowledge**:

- A track record in either Project Management or Program Management held in either a commodities environment or related physical/financial institution.
- Enterprise Architecture & Design
- Physical & Financial markets preferably in the mining or commodities industry.
- Physical logistics such as shipping, railing, trucking.
- Commodities value chain (Trade lifecycle), end to end from Production through to Shipping (Inc. Contract to cash)
- Financial Products such as Swaps, Exchange Futures and Options
- Statutory account treatments for physical and derivative trading, month end closure, financial and performance reporting
- Financing models: Structured Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Receivable Discounting etc
- VAT/GST, international tax and its operation in different jurisdictions
- CTRM solutions (Aspect desirable)
- Back office and ERP (SAP) integration

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.