Finance Business Partner

NES Fircroft are working with a major Oil & Gas operator seeking a Finance Business Partner within the Corporate Services space.

**Job Title**: Finance Business Partner

**Location**: Perth CBD

**Roster**: Monday to Friday

**Hours**: 8 hour days

**Flexibility**: 2 days WFH

**Start Date**: ASAP

**Length of contract**: 12 months

**Pay Rate**: Negotiable

**Experience needed**: Undergraduate Degree in Accounting (Essential) and/or CA/ CPA / CIMA, Post -Graduate, 3 - 5 years experience, exposure to SAP, Financial Accounting / Management Accounting experience.

**Position**:
As a member of the Finance team acting as Finance Business Partner to all company group assets, which includes both operated and non-operated Joint Ventures.

This role provides internal reporting oversight with a focus on actual and budgeted costs and provides forecasting and reporting.

The role will ensure that consistent methodologies regarding accurate cost management of planned activities are applied for the assigned Corporate Support Functions. Improve efficiency and effectiveness of finance services through

continuous improvement of processes (e.g. budgeting/forecasting, reporting, accruals, coding, etc.), and participating in the Finance team’s development.

**There are several components to this role.**

**OHS Component**:
Conduct all activities in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures. Ensuring the welfare of personnel and the protection of assets and the environment always.

**Consolidate and Report Component**:
Receive journal and accrual inputs prepared by the offshore operatives that work with the Management Accounting team;
- Review and ensure journals/accruals are processed accurately
- Ensure integrity of processes such as CATS, assessment cycles, CO-PS WBS, CO-CCA, CO-IO;
- Receive reconciliation inputs prepared by the offshore Management Accounting team;
- Support cost allocation process.
- Coordinate the consolidation of business department impacts on cash calls

***

**Management**
***
**Accounting Component**:
Coordinate preparation of budget/forecast for assigned Departments for inclusion in the relevant Work Program and Budget documents which are submitted for approval by company Board and JV participants (as required):

- Coordinate the annual budget in line with the guideline/ timetable;
- Submit quarterly forecasts for relevant periods of expenditure;
- Maintain foreign currency views;
- Oversight of financial risks in contracts for Departments assigned;
- Participate in contract evaluation process;
- Understand and communicate finance risks in contracts and obtain negotiated outcomes that meet company requirements;
- Proactively manage issues in contracts.
- Management reporting with the support of the offshore Management Accounting team:

- Maintain and improve effectiveness and efficiency of enterprise reporting suite to meet internal managers’
requirements (SAP-BW, PowerBI and ECC6);
- Deliver management reporting within six (6) business days of each period close;
- Deliver inputs for Head Office and management reporting with variance commentary on material differences;
- ** **Prepare suitable inputs to support asset approval and

**Regulation Component**:

- Provide support to the Audit Committee;
- Follow-up all action items with the support of the offshore Management Accounting team;
- Support Tax team in preparation and analysis of financial

**Team Work Component**:

- Ensure the successful set-up, transition and improvement of activities within the offshore teams.
- Provide team feedback regularly, with performance reviews half yearly for onshore and performance feedback for offshore
- Coach other Finance and/or offshore team members as required.

**Skills and Experience Required**:

- Experience with an Oil & Gas Exploration and Production major, with international exposure (not essential).
- Experience with SAP - demonstrably capable - FI/CO PS module with some knowledge of MM, BW and other modules.
- Able to work alone and plan activities to meet tight timeframes and execute to same targets while dealing with competing demands.
- Seeks to identify root cause of issues, position for Finance outcomes to be met, while working collaboratively on solutions.
- Can identify when business activities impact on Finance needs and seeks guidance to deliver win/win outcomes.
- Ability to discuss technical matters in an articulate manner.
- Good communication skills with an ability to build relationships - especially with non-Finance team members

**BH ID 224217**

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining, Automotive and Chemicals sectors worldwide.With more than 100 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever an