Specialist Finance Planning

**Date**:2 Jul 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Queensland

**Job Location/Region**:Brisbane

**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

**About the Role**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive, dynamic and highly astute finance professional to join the BMA Finance team. This role is based in Brisbane with frequent travel to the BMA operational mine sites in central Queensland.

**Key responsibilities for the role will include**:

- Finance business partnering for BMA - Influencing and challenging the teams in cost control and productivity, capital allocation and efficiency and continuous improvement
- Engage with operational teams to identify, advise and evaluate productivity and value creation initiatives along with understanding and quantifying plan delivery risk.
- Review business case development and investment evaluation on operational capital and continuous improvement projects.
- Ad-hoc analysis and reporting to communicate hypotheses and financial recommendations.
- Coach and build business acumen with the Finance Business Partners along with key stakeholders in financial knowledge and the use of information systems to determine cost and budget outcomes and to improve understanding of financial implications of decision making.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration through working with several stakeholders from operations, other functions (Supply, Asset Projects, Engineering, Risk, Human Resources, Technology) and the wider Global Finance Function such as Planning & Analytics, Accounting & Reporting, Tax and Investment Evaluation.
- Identify and implement opportunities for the continual improvement within the department.
- Identifies, engages, and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Applies an understanding of the business context and end-to-end value chain to deliver value maximising opportunities.
- Identifies areas for process improvement and redesign processes accordingly.
- Translates corporate objectives into actionable plans, communicating, managing, and analysing the implementation of those plans, and reporting back on their progress to facilitate the delivery of our strategy.

**About You**

We have a strong focus on finding individuals with the right values, leadership and communication skills. Your interpersonal skills will foster collaborative working relationships and your ability to consolidate and analyse information will provide critical thinking and a solution-focused attitude.

**You will have**:

- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
- Someone who likes to problem solve and influence key decisions.
- Strong analytical skills identify emerging trends and spot opportunities Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative, effective and outcomes-based working relationships with diverse teams and individuals.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, allowing you to build strong relationships, communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation to drive the right value outcomes for BHP.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Able to manage multiple business priorities simultaneously.
- Interest in understanding the mining sector including the end-to-end process/value chain.
- A passion for displaying financial data in an impactful way to drive action/facilitate understanding.

**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.

Please note as part of this recruitment process the successful applicant will need to conduct a Queensland legislated coal mine workers’ health assessment.

From 1 April 2023, ResHealth will be mandatory for the completion of coal mine workers’ health assessments, allowing you to submit, monitor and review the progress of your health assessment in a secure online environment. For more information please go to the ResHealth website.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees