Overview

De Beers Group (DBG) is a 135-year-old rough diamond mining, sorting and selling organisation. Within DBG sits the De Beers Polished Diamond Division which aims to vertically integrate De Beers by managing the polishing and procurement of diamonds for De Beers Jewellers, Forevermark, and the Origin polish program. It is poised to enhance De Beers’ market position by ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality polished diamonds and leveraging advanced technologies for market competitiveness. The Polished Diamond Division seeks to streamline operations to improve margins and ensure a high-quality diamond supply for De Beers brands. By utilizing AI and machine learning, the division aims to validate demand and optimize inventory management. Additionally, it will enable De Beers to establish and grow contract polishing, develop new polishing facilities, and explore mergers and acquisitions for further expansion.

Responsibilities

Build presentations to support the head of polished to represent the Polished Division in SLT-level engagements and for external audiences

• Support the finance team to translate strategic financial objectives into relevant short term financial targets
• Build business cases for new commercial opportunities for the Polished Division, including financial modelling
• Support polished brands (such as Origin) in their commercial direction setting, leveraging sales insights, relationships and external research

Process & Systems Innovation

• Act as the business owner for systems implementation projects to build and mature the Polished Division systems infrastructure
• Support operational effectiveness across the functions of Polished Division (and beyond) to ensure on-time, sustainable and profitable delivery
• Support De Beers brands to maximise efficiency and value from their diamond supplier
• Lead design of new reporting to drive data quality, create insights and unlock commercial optimization and operational efficiency opportunities
• Champion the use of BI tools to deliver insightful, self-service reporting to business stakeholders, empowering data-driven decision-making across the organization

Governance

Partner with the operations leads and finance team to develop, codify and implement robust internal controls to support audit compliance

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 yrs experience in a consulting environment or driving change in a corporate environment
• Proficiency adding structure to ambiguous situations; bringing clarity (supported by data) to enable better decision making
• Experience driving change in complex corporate environments
• Ideally experience driving systems transformations
• Excellent interpersonal skills, to influence stakeholders across and outside the team
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and financial modelling skills.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Ideal candidate will have understanding of PowerBI and/or data science tools

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Commercial Acumen: The ability to think like a business owner, understand the drivers of profitability, and use financial data to inform strategic commercial decisions.
• Collaborative Influence: A talent for building trust and working collaboratively across all levels and functions. You can communicate complex financial information with clarity and impact to influence outcomes.
• Innovative Mindset: A proactive approach to challenging the status quo, relentlessly seeking opportunities for process improvement, and leveraging technology to create value and efficiency.
• Unwavering Integrity: A commitment to upholding the highest ethical standards, ensuring our financial practices reflect our "Building Forever" commitment to sustainability and responsible sourcing.

Benefits

• Additional information :
• Fantastic pension scheme
• 27days of holiday + bank holidays with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more days
• Mental health is a top priority for De Beers Group - we offer free subscription to Headspace and have mental health first aider
• Employee share schemes
• Flexible benefits package

Who we are

De Beers Group is a company with a rich history and a sparkling future. Since 1888 our experts have searched the world for nature’s most precious gem. Our diamonds bring beauty to the world. But we think they can do so much more. We want our diamonds, and our business, to make life brilliant – for our people, our customers and the world around us. Venetia Mine is part of De Beers Group Managed Operations Business which integrates mines, operations and support functions in the De Beers Group producer countries of Canada and South Africa to shape a safe, sustainable future for De Beers Group’s people, shareholders, communities and partners.

Safety

Safety first is a way of life for us. We are unconditional about the safety, health and well-being of our colleagues, at work and at home, and about that of the communities where we work. We aim to lead the industry by investing in innovation to protect people, who are at the heart of our business. Our high performing teams take accountability for their own and others' actions, work collaboratively, and always show care and respect.

Inclusion & Diversity

We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are. We provide equality of opportunity to enable everyone to fulfil their potential. Referrals incentive applicable: This opportunity is open to a paid referral incentive according to the Referral Policy. Referral incentives are applicable to De Beers Group internal employees only.

Building Forever

Sustainability is at the heart of our decision-making – it is how we do business. Building Forever is key to our purpose as it represents our ambitious and holistic sustainability framework and is central to our ability to deliver long-term value to our communities and partners. This shapes how we protect our social and environmental license to operate, build a long-term legacy in our host communities and earn consumers’ trust in our diamonds that they can wear with pride.

Successful candidates will be required to complete background screening which may include a criminal check and validation of qualifications