Specialist 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**:
Reporting to the Lead Finance Planning and Analytics, the Specialist Planning and Analytics enables value generation, through analysis of data and the development of robust financial plans.

You will bring your expertise in Finance Planning and Analytics to provide critical reviews of financial inputs and engaging with stakeholders to clarify and validate requests. Through this work, you will recommend improvements to existing processes, practices and systems. From time to time, you may be required to support ad-hoc requests/queries and assist with resolution of complex requests and escalations.
- Key accountabilities of this role include:
- Working with Finance Business Partners and business stakeholders to review and process inputs to Five Year Plan, Budget and quarterly forecasts, focusing on driving performance to benchmarks
- Performing month end analysis and commentary and providing insights to Finance Business Partners to socialise with Operations teams
- Supporting Finance in improvement of the effectiveness of the function through integrated fit-for-purpose data analytics processes
- Supporting the function in delivering data driven solutions to improve the businesses operation and financial performance
- Presenting ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders
- Working with a Data Scientist and Finance Business Partners to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drive process efficiency and standardisation

**About You**:
To be successful in this role, you will have the following attributes:
- A curious and analytical mind
- Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and stakeholder influencing skills, including demonstrated ability to use MS PowerPoint / Power BI to efficiently and effectively distil key information, communicate complex ideas and drive change
- Previous experience in Budgeting and forecasting is preferred
- Demonstrated understanding of finance master data structures/architecture (e.g. cost centres, profit centres, hierarchies, WBS etc.) and data requirements
- Demonstrated ability to collect/extract, interpret and review financial information
- Demonstrated experience working in either a SAP or similar large ERP system and using data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI) to profile large datasets
- Advanced MS Excel skills to work efficiently and effectively with large volumes of data
- Track record of championing process improvements
- Demonstrated understanding of budgeting and forecasting, inventory costing models and /or joint venture accounting is advantageous
- Demonstrated experience in project management is advantageous

**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.