Principal Finance Business Partnership

**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**:
As a Principal Finance Business Partner, you will be a key member and influencer of the Site Lead Team responsible for the commercial outcomes and performance of a given mine site. You will provide specialist financial advice, develop relationships with site leadership and operational personnel and build financial acumen in the Asset. You will create value through improving the quality of business decisions, through analyzing financial data, options and valuing opportunities to enhance business outcomes.

Key responsibilities will be:

- Finance business partnering for BMA - Influencing and challenging the teams in cost control and productivity, capital allocation and efficiency and continuous improvement
- Influence and participate at the site Senior Lead Team meetings, providing financial insight, value coaching and business acumen to decision making
- Engage with operational teams to identify, advise and evaluate productivity and value creation initiatives
- Review monthly cost outcomes to ensure accuracy;
- Delivery of the annual two year budget and five year plan financial submissions with supporting analysis.
- Review and Approve business case development and investment evaluation on operational capital and continuous improvement projects
- Ad-hoc analysis and development of tools and reporting to communicate hypotheses and financial recommendations
- Coach and build business acumen 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 a number of 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

**About You**:
You may be an experienced finance professional, or a technical/engineering specialist with strong commercial acumen and some finance exposure. Your strong engagement and influencing skills will ensure you can work effectively with a range of stakeholders, and will enable you to build and maintain relationships. You are an enthusiastic, confident self-starter who is able to work independently and as part of a team. Strong attention to detail will be critical to your success, as will your ability to achieve deadlines and problem solve. An interest in mining and understanding the process drivers is required however prior mining experience is not essential.

**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***:
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.