About the Role:

In this role, you will play a critical part in strengthening financial decision making across the business. You will lead core financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting activities, ensuring the delivery of high quality insights that support strategic and operational decisions. Through rigorous analysis and a strong understanding of financial performance drivers, you will help senior leaders understand results, risks, and opportunities, while promoting consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting tools to support the asset to achieve its goals.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the annual budgeting cycle and quarterly forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with business priorities.
• Prepare, review, and analyze financial reports, including profit and loss statements, balance sheet, and cash flow reporting.
• Deliver clear, actionable financial insights to senior leadership to support performance management and informed decision making.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial reporting tools, processes, and data quality.
• Perform detailed financial variance analysis, including EBITDA, Free Cash Flow (FCF), unit costs (FOB / non FOB; C1, etc.), and ROCE.
• Own inventory valuation planning and variance analysis, for work in progress and finished goods materials. Including Net Realisable Value (NRV) testing.
• Apply IFRS- 16 treatment of deferred stripping, including capitalisation versus expense, strip ratios, and life of component methodologies.

About You:

What We Expect From You:

• A university degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline. MBA or professional certification (e.g. CPA) preferred.
• Advanced English proficiency.
• At least 8 years experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) within complex and dynamic environments.
• Strong knowledge of financial modelling, management reporting, and performance analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and experience working with ERP systems. (SAP ideal)
• Solid understanding of accounting standards and financial controls.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate data into meaningful insights.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and integrity in financial reporting.
• Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in multinational or complex organisational environments.