PLANNING ANALYST – Sandfire Resources

This role will be critical to the Anaplan in-country integration team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn the model building skills required to develop non-financial, financial, and reporting modelling in the Anaplan platform, Sandfire’s planning and analysis tool.

Key Performance Areas

• To administer quarterly forecast process at Motheo Copper Mine
• To lead integration of Anaplan in Motheo operation
• Lead deep-dive project scoping meetings with key stakeholders
• Contribute to design discussion for effective, efficient, and functional outputs that meet key stakeholder requirements
• Develop Anaplan model building skills using best practice methods (minimum Level 1 Model Builder within 6 months)
• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements within Departments and within the global SFR business (non-financial and financial)
• Align planning methodology with financial principles applied to actual accounting to ensure consistency (where applicable)
• Liaise with Anaplan consultants to raise and resolve queries and ensure best practice methodology is adhered to
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders within the SFR business
• Develop a working knowledge of each of Sandfire’s core business functions across Operations, Corporate, and regional departments
• Collaborate with Business Unit Management on matters where planning and/or reporting outcomes need to be adequately balanced against project or operational imperatives
• Maintenance of relevant administration guideline documentation
• Additional reporting, analysis and administration requirements as requested

Technical Competencies

• Working knowledge of non-financial and financial accounting principles and practices across a spectrum including development projects, mining operations, port activities (eg. Processing Recovery, stockpile reconciliation, mine closure, and reporting)
• Understanding and knowledge of financial and/or planning management systems (Pronto, Anaplan)
• Strong written and oral communication, including the ability to distil key messages to different audiences.

Behaviours/Personal Attributes

• Excellent numerical skills
• Prioritisation and time management across multiple tasks.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Strong attention to detail
• Autonomous, self-starter with initiative
• Quick learner
• “Can do”, collaborative attitude

Qualification & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in accounting, finance or have experience in advanced (non-financial and financial) model development within systems and/or excel
• Minimum of 5 years of practical experience in a mining environment.
• Previous experience in planning and analysis (particularly with multiple data sources and bottom-up plan build)
• Accounting experience viewed favourably (particularly mine site or management)