Finance Business Partner

**The Company**

Johnson Controls is the Global leader for smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play.

**About this opportunity**

This role will report to the Senior Finance Manager and will have the opportunity partnering with the business across the states and ensure compliance with appropriate accounting standards are maintained to meet JCI requirement.

You will be responsible for working across different functions including Sales & Project Managers teams for reporting and forecasting, tracking business performance, providing strategic financial insight and support to local team. In addition, you will be the point of contact for all matters across functions within Australia tracking performance, driving necessary corrective actions, and communicating with stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide management with timely, accurate, and insightful information to drive business performance to enable tactical and strategic decisions.
- Collect budgeting, forecasting, and outlook processes for P&L, balance sheet, and working capital/cashflow.
- Take ownership of the financials and work closely with Operations team for both Service and Install and be able to provide day to day support where required by the Ops team.
- Identify and track KPIs and operational measures to enable business to thrive results.
- Perform monthly reviews with ops team to ensure projects have no risk and any risk and opps identified in reviews and actions taken
- Be a local support for existing team in Melbourne on Finance and ensure correct reporting from all functions to align with JCI standards
- Month end activities, involve in POC review with Senior Business Finance Manager and close month end to meet all deadlines.
- Drive operational and process improvements in the FP&A function and lead reporting standardization and automation across the organization.
- Involve in standardize process in business unit under control.
- Efficiency of department overheads and preparation of reports to assess branch performance.
- Ensuring compliance with appropriate accounting policies/standards
- Become the expert in ERP, explore the current reports and involve with ERP consultant to drive standardize reports

**What we look for**:

- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration or Finance. CA/CPA preferred.
- Minimum 7 years of experience.
- This role must deliver high quality support for the ops team.
- Previous experience in POC, OS and Pronto is preferred but not a must.
- Good interpersonal skills, able to influence without authority, and comfortable interacting with colleagues at all organizational levels, including branch managers across the states.
- Excellent communication skills, spoken and written. Able to focus on big picture and turning complex topics into simple concepts.
- Ambitious, self-driven, and highly motivated individual who can thrive in ambiguity, work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.
- Experience working with offshore functions and/or different cultures preferred.

**_ JCI’s Diversity & Inclusion_**
- Our dedication to diversity and inclusion starts with our values. We lead with integrity and purpose, focusing on the future and aligning with our customers’ vision for success. Our High-Performance Culture ensures that we have the best talent that is highly engaged and eager to innovate. Our D&I mission elevates each employee’s responsibility to contribute to our culture. It’s through these contributions that we’ll drive the mindsets and behaviors we need to power our customers’ missions. You have the power. You have the voice. You have the culture in your hands._