Principal Finance Accounting

**Date**:9 Dec 2024**Job Posting End Date**:23-Dec-2024;13:59:59GMT**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.
- About the Role- Reporting to the Manager Finance Accounting, you will be responsible for being a trusted advisor to a broad range of Finance and non-Finance stakeholders to ensure that accounting outcomes best reflect underlying commercial aspects and comply with BHP accounting interpretations.- You will be responsible for delivering accounting advice to the Business and managing relationships with key stakeholders. You will coordinate accounting deliverables across Local, Regional, and Group levels, ensuring governance and stewardship of accounting activities to uphold the integrity of financial results. In collaboration with the Manager of Finance Accounting, you will be responsible for preparing technical accounting papers for complex issues and ensuring compliance with BHP’s accounting policies and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).-
- Core Accountabilities- Provide technical accounting guidance to stakeholders to ensure transactions and projects are recognised in accordance with accounting standards
- Investigate and analyse Business initiatives or proposals to identify accounting requirements and risks to address prior to implementation
- Review of complex and high-risk accounting areas such as closure and rehabilitation, deferred stripping, inventory valuation and impairment assessment
- Manage the preparation of high quality and timely accounting treatment papers to support complex and judgmental accounting matters in the Business
- Coordinate and review reporting deliverables including financial statements, external briefing papers and statutory accounts for lodgement with ASIC
- Manage the timely delivery of monthly cost sign off and trial balance review processes by working closely with the Global Business Services team
- Assist with assurance related activities including the operation of internal controls and compliance with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements
- Coordinate the annual stewardship review to ensure the integrity of financial results, governance of accounting activities and improvement opportunities
- Liaise with internal and external auditors for review of financial results, testing of internal controls, providing information, and addressing queries
- Support and build relationships with Global Business Services, Finance Business Partners, Planning and Reporting, Mine Sites and Operations
- Assist the Manager with the review of proposals and financial results, planning and coordination of projects and deliverables to meet business requirements
- Provide coaching and guidance to the Specialists in the team, supporting them with deliverables, especially on technical or contentious areas
- Support open communication, collaboration, sharing of ideas and information within the Global Accounting team and Finance in general
- About You- Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance or Commerce
- Professional qualification (CA/CPA or equivalent) completion
- Minimum of 5 years working experience in a large corporate or professional environment
- Good attention to detail, analytical and investigative skills, ability to manage deadlines
- Strong communication skills, and strong stakeholder engagement
- Business acumen, commercial mindset and ability to understand operational aspects
- Demonstrated strong technical financial accounting experience, including IFRS knowledge
- Reporting experience including management or external reporting and statutory accounts
- Accounting experience within the mining and resources or oil and gas industries beneficial
- Big four audit firm background and large corporate audit experience would be desirable
- Knowledge and experience of finance modules in SAP and MS Excel functionality is highly desirable
- Strong governance focus, with previous SOX and internal or external audit experience desired Fluent English, both verbal and written**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.

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