Senior Manager Financial Operations Mozambique

Short Description

Company: Sasol

Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 70-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do.

Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Job Req

8112

Closing Date

10 April 2025

Geographical Area

Maputo, Mozambique

Purpose of Job

The purpose of the Senior Manager Finance Mozambique role is to be the Finance Lead business partner facilitator for the PSA and PPA licenses for their plant operations in Temane.

Lead and manage the finance business partnering activities including performance management process, budgeting, forecasting as well as overall integrity of financial controls and reporting to various stakeholders.

Work closely with various operational Senior Managers and the VP Southern Africa Assets to drive performance management for the plant’s operations process including but not limited to production volumes, operating and capital expenditure, governance, and compliance amongst other key performance indicators.

The successful candidate must have a strong understanding of overall operations business management objectives, business performance management and day-to-day integrated business processes and activities in the Oil and Gas industry. They should have enough knowledge of gas and liquid processing operations and be able to challenge where value is being diluted.

Long term purpose includes the management of a team responsible for all the in-country reporting requirements including the Government of Mozambique, Unincorporated Joint Venture partners and Sasol statutory reporting requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Facilitating the operations integrated planning, management and controlling process within business on a continuous basis to address issues arising from the operations review process that require resolution (e.g. KPI variance outside tolerance, major planned event misses, major changes to the budget, long-term positive or negative bias, changes to key assumptions. Etc.);
• Ensure key business issues are reconciled, recommendations are proposed, and the performance pack is prepared to support effective business decisions;
• Close liaison with respective operational heads of the operation plant facility integrated business process, to ensure all key issues are surfaced, and changes, recommendations are proposed;
• Serve as a key support to the Senior Manager Business (Asset Manager) working hand in hand to deliver key information to enable the business decisions;
• Supporting development and delivery of solutions to key business issues, ensuring that majority of business challenges and opportunities are considered and resolved through the integrated business process;
• Improve/Optimise current system and procedures to serve the needs of a growing operations on site;
• Optimisation of the cost structure to ensure resources are used to its full capacity;
• Continuous management and measurement of the execution of the short- and medium-term budget plans in relation to cost and capital expenditure;
• Participate in relevant daily, weekly and monthly operational meetings for the plant operations and to remain aware of emerging issues that require linkage to the above and other process;
• Support performance management mindset, continuous improvement processes and facilitate strategy formulation and execution;
• Establish a continuity plan by ensuring skill transfer to the team to ensure 2 successor options are available and ready in 5 years;
• Establish, maintain and drive sound and effective internal control environment, including SOX processes;
• Overall responsibility for the finance activity in the operations plant facility with overall accountability for: The full financials (volumes, income, costs, capex and cash reporting) at asset level; 5-year budgeting process including volumes, cost and rolling capital plan, forecasting (24 months rolling) for working capital, costs and cash, from a bottom-up plan; The provision of a monthly performance pack to support effective business decisions; Working capital across the business focusing on plant inventory; Capital value process and its approval process; Present, set recommendations and discuss the business financial reports to management.

Formal Education

Working Experience

Required Personal and Professional Skills