Manager, Finance Business Partner (12 Month Fixed Contract)
Johannesburg, ZA, 2198
Reporting directly to the Director of Corporate Finance Business Partnering (FBP), the Manager, FBP plays a pivotal role in advancing corporate financial management systems and Master Data Management to ensure accurate Group Corporate Costs Reporting, Budgeting and Forecasting. In this 12 month fixed contract leadership position, you will act as a vital bridge between central finance, group corporate functions, and business units. You will drive operational efficiency and financial transparency across Group corporate costs by enhancing master data governance and developing dynamic reporting frameworks within SAP FI/CO and IBM Planning & Analytics (TM1). Your expertise will ensure our corporate costs’ master data structures optimization for accuracy, flexibility, and alignment with organizational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the standardization and optimization of corporate master data in SAP FI/CO and TM1 to support evolving business needs and ensure seamless integration into operational and management reporting.
- Implement multidimensional coding and embed activity attributes to enable comprehensive, automated corporate management reporting that supports data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with Digital Technology and Finance Systems teams to maintain and enhance cost center, profit center, and internal order hierarchies, ensuring data integrity and alignment with operational structures.
- Conduct detailed reviews and validations of employee allocations and personnel cost drivers, ensuring costs are aligned with business functions and activities.
- Drive adherence to corporate cost master data management and reporting standards to ensure executive leadership’s enhanced visibility into corporate overhead performance and cost allocation metrics.
- Develop and enforce clear cost allocation principles and approval workflows, coordinating with stakeholders across Group Corporate functions, Operations, HR, and Tax departments.
- Create, refine, and maintain advanced master data management structures using TM1 / IBM Planning & Analytics to enhance and streamline financial analysis, Reporting, and BI Dashboards’ accuracy.
- Perform rigorous corporate costs master data structures’ validations to ensure accurate actuals, budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis reporting to Senior Leadership.
- Support the Director in ensuring accurate corporate costs master data structures to support executive-level decision packs, performance scorecards, budgets, and strategic business reviews that shape corporate financial strategy.
- Author and maintain comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) governing corporate accounting practices, master data management, and cost allocation methodologies for consistency and audit readiness.
- Champion automation initiatives to deliver and sustain dynamic, automated corporate reporting suites, enhancing timeliness and accuracy of financial insights.
Qualifications & Experience
- 10 to 12 years of progressive post-qualification experience in financial management, cost accounting, or financial planning and analysis within large and complex corporate environments required.
- Advanced hands-on experience with SAP FI/CO (minimum 5 years), specifically in master data management, internal orders, cost center accounting and activity-based costing.
- Advanced skills in TM1 / IBM Planning & Analytics financial reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI.
- Expert-level skills in Microsoft Excel for financial modelling, large data manipulation, and interactive dashboard development.
- Extensive experience in financial data validation, governance, and alignment between system structures and operational reporting.
- Thorough knowledge of IFRS standards, internal control frameworks, and cost allocation methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex transactional data, isolate variances, identify master data structure items and drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems and reporting.
- Advanced skills in managing complex, multi-year projects (e.g., Agile) while guiding specialized finance, operational and technical teams.
- Strong interpersonal skills, stakeholder engagement including senior leaders and management skills and experience and influencing cross-functional teams effectively.
- Proven leadership and execution in financial process automation, standardization, and operational efficiency initiatives and projects.
- Exceptional quantitative and scenario modeling capabilities to resolve complex data discrepancies and inform major corporate investments or restructurings.
AngloGold Ashanti Limited
Reg No: 1944/017354/06
AngloGold Ashanti is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of gender, race, religion, nationality, or disability.