Head Office Finance Department
Rustenburg, Northwest, South Africa
Internal and External advert

Roles and Responsibilities

• Prepare and present monthly cost reports, forecasts, budgets, and financial performance information to management.
• Conduct cost, variance, and financial analysis to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Facilitate monthly cost review meetings and provide financial guidance to departmental managers and budget holders.
• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and cost allocation processes.
• Monitor expenditure against approved budgets and drive cost optimisation and efficiency initiatives.
• Oversee costing, budgeting, forecasting, charge-out processes, and financial performance reporting.
• Process, review, and approve financial journals, transactions, requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, vendor requests, and policy deviations in line with delegated authority and internal controls.
• Maintain and support financial systems including SAP S/4HANA, BPC, Coupa, Concur, AppZen, VatSolve, and related reporting platforms.
• Prepare, upload, and validate actual, forecast, and trial balance information for financial reporting and planning purposes.
• Review and support VAT reporting, financial reconciliations, and intercompany cost allocations to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Review, validate, and resolve discrepancies relating to service charges, cost recoveries, and intercompany transactions.
• Provide system support, user guidance, training, troubleshooting, and governance to finance and business stakeholders.
• Act as the primary liaison for Concur and AppZen administration, including cardholder onboarding, maintenance, compliance monitoring, and expense management support.
• Review, investigate, and resolve transactions flagged through compliance monitoring processes and ensure adherence to travel and expense policies.
• Support internal and external audits by providing accurate financial information, documentation, and audit responses.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, ICFR requirements, company policies, financial controls, governance frameworks, and delegated authorities.
• Identify and implement process improvements to strengthen controls, risk management, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with management, finance teams, business units, auditors, and external service providers.
• Collaborate across departments to support strategic initiatives, business improvements, and financial performance objectives while promoting accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant NQF 7 level qualification.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in costing or similar in a mining environment.
• Good knowledge of SAP.
• Strong analytical and trend analysis capability.
• Advanced systems and reporting expertise.
• High attention to detail and data governance mindset.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to operate across multiple assets and influence without direct authority.
• Strategic thinking with operational execution capability.