About the Role
We are seeking a Specialist Finance Planning and Reporting to join our team in Perth. This role is open to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicants.
The Specialist Finance Planning and Reporting will enable value generation through analysis of data and the development of robust financial plans. You will bring your expertise in Finance Planning and Reporting to provide critical reviews of financial inputs and engage with stakeholders to clarify and validate requests.
Key Responsibilities
* Work with finance business partners for mines and respective business stakeholders to review and process inputs to the two-year budget, final budget, and quarterly on-cycle forecasts.
* Analyze the outputs of the two-year budget, final budget, and on-cycle forecasts against budget and identify improvement opportunities leading to effective cost management and achievement of unit cost guidelines.
* Provide finance business partner support to asset functions.
* Perform month-end analysis and commentary covering price, volume, and efficiency variances; and provide insights to finance business partners to socialize with operations teams.
* Support finance in improving the effectiveness of the function through integrated fit-for-purpose data analytics processes.
* Support the function in delivering data-driven solutions to improve the businesses operation and financial performance.
* Confidently present ideas, results, and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
* Keep up-to-date with data analytics trends and work with a data scientist and finance business partners to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drive process efficiency and standardization.
* From time to time, you may be required to support ad-hoc requests/queries and assist with resolution of complex requests and escalations.
About You
* You will have a curious and analytical mind.
* You will have strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and stakeholder influencing skills, including demonstrated ability to use MS PowerPoint / Power BI to efficiently and effectively distill key information, communicate complex ideas, and drive change.
* You will have demonstrated understanding of finance master data structures/architecture (e.g., cost centres, profit centres, hierarchies, WBS etc.) and data requirements.
* You will have demonstrated ability to collect/extract, interpret and review financial information.
* You will have demonstrated commercial/operational thinking and experience making value-driven business decisions for a commercial return.
* You will have demonstrated experience working in either a SAP or similar large ERP system and using data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI) to profile large datasets.
* You will have advanced MS Excel skills to work efficiently and effectively with large volumes of data.
* You will have a track record of championing process improvements.
* You will have demonstrated understanding of budgeting and forecasting, inventory costing models and/or joint venture accounting.
* You will have previous experience in budgeting and forecasting.
* You will have demonstrated experience in project management.
Qualifications & Competencies
* You will have a graduate degree (Accounting, Finance, Business or Commerce preferred) with a preference for qualified Chartered Accountant, CPA, Master's degree or MBA or studying towards attainment.
* You will have 2+ years of related experience with a preference for resources-based experience.
* You will have the ability to work with technical subject matter experts and grasp technical problems/complex issues and synthesize into business cases and analyses.
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants' suitability for a role including police/criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
We recognize that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and this position will only be open to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicants.