Job Description

Company Description

Anglo American is a leading global mining company.

Our products are essential ingredients in nearly every aspect of modern life. Our competitive portfolio of world-class operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable world, while meeting the growing consumer demands of both developed and developing economies.

We apply innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources; to extract, process, transport, and market our products to customers around the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable manner.

As a responsible mining company, we work alongside our business partners and various stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value our products represent—not only for our shareholders, communities, and the countries where we operate, but also for society as a whole.

Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

Job Description

Purpose

This role is designed to support Discovery activities in Chile.

The purpose of this role is to ensure the Discovery Chile activities are carried out in accordance with Anglo American policies and procedures by providing a full range of technical support to the Discovery Manager – Andes including providing essential accounting, budgeting, governance, tax and treasury support.

The role includes responsibility for administrative and logistical matters, including liaising with internal stakeholders (Supply Chain, Accounting, Compliance, etc.) from the Chile Business and Group Functions, as well as external stakeholders, such as contractors, ensuring that all our project and programmes are properly supported and allowing their execution on time and on budget.

Key Tasks

1. Countries with Business support (Chile):

• Finance and accounting
• Support the consolidation of monthly and projected annual budgets for the Discovery team.
• Responsible for keeping a monthly control of actual expenses versus the monthly Budget to inform Project Support Manager.
• Supervise that the payments to be made have complied with all internal procedures (quotes, contracts, purchase orders, service orders) and have the end user approvals to authorize the generation of the Conformity and the supplier can issue its Invoice to schedule payment within the standard period (30 days).
• Provide sound cost management practices contributing to the effective use of resources.
• Identify and implement business improvement initiatives associated with the execution of the role.
• Maintain communications and work with support functions including Commercial Finance Business Partner, Discovery Finance Working Group, and GDG Supply Chain Business Partner.
• Procurement, logistics and asset management.
• Key contact between Supply Chain, IM, Asset Management, compliance, legal teams and Discovery team to ensure all procurement, logistics and asset management is carried out in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all proper steps are taken within local supply chain and finance procedures for the timely execution of contracted services or purchased goods.
• Partner with the Supply Chain team to support project monitoring and follow-up activities

1. Countries with Business support (Argentina):

Finance and Accounting

• Consolidate monthly budgets and annual forecasts.
• Monitor actual expenses against budget and report variances to the Superintendent Project Support
• Ensure payments, travel advances, and reimbursements comply with internal approvals, documentation, and settlement requirements.
• Provide sound cost management practices contributing to the effective use of resources.
• Identify and implement business improvement initiatives associated with the execution of the role.
• Maintain communications and work with support functions including external advisors to ensure all procurement, logistics and asset management is carried out in a timely manner.

Procurement, Logistics, and Asset Management

• Lead compliant procurement and supplier-selection processes for goods and services.
• Coordinate tender processes and prepare Terms of Reference aligned with technical and SHEC requirements.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate qualification (Bachelors/ Honours Bachelors Degree) in a relevant Finance or Economics discipline.
• A qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) is desirable.
• Residence: Santiago, Chile
• Advanced English Level - Mandatory Requirement.
• Advanced Excel skills; Power BI is desirable.

Knowledge

1. Technical:

• Experience of 3 years or more in similar roles, ideally at Big Four or Minning.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Administrative, Accountant, Finance (budgets)
• Experience with accounting including financial reporting and budgeting
• Strong business acumen and commercially aware, and comfortable operating in a constantly changing and complex commercial environment
• Knowledge of financial controls
• Knowledge of standard report templates, performance metrics, data requirements and customization
• Knowledge of tax processes.
• Knowledge of technical accounting standards as appropriate.

1. Safety:

• Proactively identify the risks against the safety of your own area, adheres to the most appropriate practices and fervently promotes individual responsibility in relation to safety.
• Knowledge of safety policies, procedures and the important role of consistently demonstrating required behaviours and championing safety values.
• Experience in community relations issues

1. Desirable:

• Experience in the extractive sector on exploration (highly desirable).
• Desirable knowledge of SAP user.
• People management skills that ensure a collaborative working environment.

Additional Information

At Anglo American, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where all colleagues are valued and respected for who they are, and where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Our key enablers are:

• Inclusive leaders who value diversity and the unique contributions of each colleague.
• A flexible, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
• A culture where colleagues feel valued and respected, and confident to bring their whole selves to work.
• A safe, effective, and enabling environment for all our stakeholders.

For this reason, all our job openings are available to anyone who meets the job description. We are an inclusive company and we want you to be part of it. Diversity in gender, LGBT+, age, culture/religion, ethnicity, or disability status (Law 21.015) is welcome