Specialist Planning

**Date**:16 Jan 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:24-Jan-2025;15:59:59GMT

**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:South Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Adelaide

**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.

**Our Operations**
- One of Australia’s largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. In 2023 BHP acquired OZ Minerals adding SA Copper and Gold mines Carrapateena and Prominent Hill to the portfolio, providing opportunities to develop and grow across a large scale operation.

This role is based in Adelaide, offering quality standard of living without the high costs of most other Australian capital cities. Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beach-side lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants and world class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar makes Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.
- About the Role
- As a Specialist Planning & Reporting, you will report to the Manager Planning & Reporting, where you will provide insight into a highly skilled team and high performing function, leveraging your financial and planning experience and skills. This role will see you provide financial support and guidance across our Copper South Australia Asset. Your focus on maximising value, supported by sound process management and effective engagement across multiple stakeholders, will be utilised to facilitate the delivery of continuous improvement activities and the annual business planning cycle.
- Core Accountabilities of the role
- Work with Finance Business Partners and Operations teams to collect, process and analyse financial data, to deliver plans aligned with company outcomes and execution of ongoing business improvement opportunities across our organisation.
- Support the analysis of production, benchmarking and project data to deliver insights and solutions to improve business operations and financial performance.
- Execute investment evaluation processes and modeling to ensure adequate review of assumptions, outcomes and recommendations.
- Use models, systems and tools to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drive process efficiency and standardisation.
- Support Finance and Operations in continuously improving planning and reporting processes to be fit for purpose, effective and efficient.
- Confidently present ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
- About You
- Experienced in the collection, processing and analysis of large and complex data sets.
- Degree qualification in engineering, commerce/finance or mining related technical discipline.
- Core technical and work experience in either mining engineering, supply chain planning or commercial.
- Ability to work autonomously and be responsible in complex decision making.
- Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Familiar with Financial Systems Management (ERP and Budgeting/Forecasting).

**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, 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' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diver