Commercial Finance Analyst

Full-Time permanent opportunity
- Plenty of career development opportunities alongside our Energy portfolio and broader business
- Flexible Hybrid work and team culture.

**About Ampol**

Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose come from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives - to keep them moving, to make journeys happen. Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand.

For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow. Tomorrow comes with the need to navigate the energy transition, and by playing a key role in the broader decarbonization of transport, we have defined an ambitious decarbonization strategy to reach net zero emissions on an absolute basis across our operations by 2040.

**Energy Solutions**

The Energy Solutions team is in the privileged position to play a meaningful role in what is the biggest challenge of our generation - climate change. We will achieve this by rapidly leveraging our privileged assets, brands, customer bases and expertise across geographies to accelerate the rollout of our alternative energy market offerings. We are committed to reducing our own emissions and to playing an important role in assisting our customers to navigate the energy transition by reducing their transport emissions.

We are bold and ambitious regional champions for the areas of the energy transition we commit to enable. We create innovative solutions to meet our customers’ needs, making their energy transition easy.

**About the role**:
The Energy Solutions team is currently recruiting for a **Commercial Finance Analyst **to develop and maintain proactive, forward looking financial analysis, in addition, be able to interpretate and provide recommendations to support both capital investment (including leases and working capital) and business operating decisions, as well as broader commercial matters for the Energy Solutions team**.**

**Key Deliverables**:

- Ensure investment decisions are effectively modelled including assessment and review a range of proposals across the Energy Solutions portfolio
- Support business decision makers and the Commercial Finance Manager for investment and business decisions, including the business case development
- Provide proactive forward-looking analysis, trend reporting and sound recommendations for the management of capital (including working capital) on an on-going basis to delivery business objectives of energy Solutions
- Provide support and contribute to the capital and balance sheet forecast process to ensure trend, assumptions and key driver are understood and delivering strategic objectives
- Develop, maintain and track Energy Solutions proposals to address gaps in current performance of the plan and to achieve the long-term strategic objectives of energy transition.
- Complete review and oversight of investment portfolio to ensure timely commercial insight into future investments and prioritisation of resources on initiatives to realise strategy and business objectives
- Provide support and contribute to the development of the Energy Solutions business plan, including capital investment and revenue growth
- Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate provision of proactive advice and support, including educating the business on project management approach, business case development and financial modelling

**About you**

We are looking for individuals with a ‘’continuous improvement’’ and agile mindset; able to manage and navigate ambiguity, complexity, and uncertainty; utilising structured problem-solving techniques as we build up our capabilities in the energy space.

This role is open to applicants with full working rights based in Sydney, NSW, Brisbane, QLD or Melbourne, VIC in Australia as well as in NZ with a willingness to travel/attend different client visits and/or conferences all over the country and NZ.

**Key skills and experience**
- Tertiary qualification finance, economics, accounting, engineering, or related discipline or demonstrated equivalent knowledge
- Minimum 4-6 years’ experience in M&A, commercial finance, strategy, financial modelling, or valuations with preferrable exposure to electricity markets
- Knowledge of commercial markets and or energy supply chain
- Developing experience in managing projects
- Advanced analytical skills, including VBA, with strong capacity for proactive problem identification and solution development
- Strong people skills including the ability to effectively communicate, engage and influence key stakeholders to drive high impact recommendations
- Ability to build r