Specialist Planning and Reporting

**Date**:10 Feb 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Western Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Perth

**About BHP**

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people looking to start or continue their career in mining to Think Big with BHP. At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. Indigenous Peoples are critical partners and stakeholders in many of BHP operations both within Australia and around the world. Many of our operations are located on or near lands traditionally owned by or under the customary use of Indigenous Peoples and the long-term nature of our operations allows us to establish long lasting relationships with these Indigenous communities.
- About the Role
- Reporting to the Lead Finance Planning and Reporting (Mines), the Specialist Planning and Reporting enables value generation, through analysis of data and the development of robust financial plans. You will bring your expertise in Finance Planning and Reporting 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.

**Key accountabilities of this role include**:

- Working with the Finance Business Partners for Mines and respective business stakeholders to review and process inputs to the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and quarterly on-cycle forecasts, focusing on driving performance against benchmarks.
- Analysis of the outputs of the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and on-cycle forecasts against budget and aid in identifying improvement opportunities leading to effective cost management and achievement of unit cost guidelines.
- Provide Finance Business Partner support to Asset Functions.
- Performing month end analysis and commentary covering price, volume and efficiency variances; 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.
- Confidently presenting ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
- Keeping up to date with data analytics trends and working with a Data Scientist and Finance Business Partners to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drive process efficiency and standardisation.
- From time to time, you may be required to support ad-hoc requests/queries and assist with resolution of complex requests and escalations.
- 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.
- 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 commercial/operational thinking and experience making value driven business decisions for a commercial return.
- 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. Experience using Analysis for Office will be advantageous.
- Track record of championing process improvements.
- Demonstrated understanding of budgeting and forecasting, inventory costing models and /or joint venture accounting is advantageous.
- Previous experience in Budgeting and forecasting is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in project management is advantageous.

**Qualifications & Competencies**
- Graduate degree (Accounting, Finance, Business or Commerce preferred) with a preference for qualified Chartered Accountant, CPA, Master’s degree or MBA or studying towards attainment.
- 2+ years of related experience with a preference for resources based experience.

**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**

At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which