Senior FP&A Specialist

P&C Recruiting | H.R.; Arizona; On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist role focused on coordinating planning, budgeting and cost control across the mine site. You will develop analysis tools and drive data-driven decision making to improve operational performance and profitability.

The position emphasizes collaboration across departments, deployment of improvement practices, and maintaining rigorous cost controls and forecasting standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or accounting is required.
• 8 years’ experience in business analysis, cost analysis, reporting dashboards, budgeting and forecasting.
• Proficient with MS Office, SAP S4/Hana and Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic leadership to drive safety, quality and cost improvements at the mine site.
• Drive transformation initiatives and TO pipeline for each department.
• Develop and validate mine budgets, LOm financial models, and KPI analyses.
• Coordinate planning and budgeting cycles with detailed work plans.
• Provide investment analysis and support capital management and studies as required.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or accounting

Tools

MS Office Suite

SAP S4/HANA

Power BI

Job description

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist

Position Overview

This dynamic role involves collaboration across all of the mine, driving the development and execution of impactful business planning, culture programs and improvement initiatives across site and developing analysis tools to drive cost control and operational performance indicators across the mine. You will act as a catalyst for meaningful change, respectfully challenging the status quo and introducing innovative approaches to how we operate at the mine, driving the company vision through setting the bar on values, behaviours and mindsets to ensure the success of all short- and long-term planning, data driven decision making and improvement initiatives across site.

Position Responsibilities

Strategic leadership

• Manage and ensure all employees & contractors/suppliers are working in compliance with all company Mine and MSHA safety guidelines and procedures.
• Drive and develop a business improvement culture, mindset and passion across the mine site. Model the mine values and mindsets to ensure achievement of our vision, influencing these standards across site.
• Drive transformation initiatives to drive good safety outcomes, increase quality standards, improve production efficiencies and unlock cost savings to hit the bottom line.
• Model the company values and mindsets to ensure achievement of our vision, influencing these standards across site.

Transformation portfolio

• Facilitate and provide coaching to operational teams on deployment of improvement practices to analyze current state, identify opportunities and build the foundations for future state.
• Drive monthly cost review meetings and identify improvement initiatives to add to TO pipeline for each department. Work with departments to develop action plans to realize benefits from initiatives.
• Ensure the availability of the necessary tools and resources project managers require to deliver successful projects.
• Work with departments to value initiatives and conduct post project implementation monitoring to analyze long term project benefits.

Planning and Analysis

• Coordinate planning and budgeting cycles setting out timelines, detailed work requirements and preparing analysis to ensure cost efficient and optimized budgets and plans are developed.
• Oversee the budgeting and planning, including preparation and validation of mine budgets, plans, Life of Mine (LOM) financial models, including preparation and analysis of key performance indicators, projections, and models.
• Ensure planning outcomes enhance the value of the business.
• Champion cross functional site involvement in the budgeting process to ensure presentation of a complete business case, inclusion of all potential uplift opportunities and identification of all risks.
• Develop system procedures and controls for budgets and forecasts.
• Drive improved business performance via analysis of historical data and development of forecasting tools that result in visibility of pending business issues and development of optimal action plans to address.

Capital Management

• Develop site wide capital management tools to manage and communicate annual & LOM capital spend program
• Set up and coordinate monthly capital committee to review project progress upcoming capital submissions and forecasts
• Drive and coordinate monthly capital reforecasting
• Provide investment analysis for major projects
• Support economics, modelling and assessment of Studies as required
• Drive a culture of cost control and reporting on all capital projects, ensuring we get the best value for money, quality results and carry learnings forward to future projects.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or accounting.
• 8 years’ experience in business analysis, cost analysis, reporting dashboards, Budgeting and forecasting processes, cost management and operational excellence role in the mining industry (operating sites).
• Computer proficient in MS Office Suite, SAP S4/Hana, Power BI

Preferred

• Passion for safety
• Capable of managing change and bringing others along on the journey
• Strong financial acumen
• Exceptional planning, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to transform complex data into actionable insights
• Self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure and autonomously
• Excellent attention to detail and time management skills to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong, influential relationships with stakeholders at all levels