Business Operations Finance Assistant

**Business Operations Finance Assistant**:

- Glen Waverly, VIC, AU, 3149

**About us**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include a large numbers of households, as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

We value inclusive leadership and teams and celebrate the results of succeeding together. But our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within.

**About the role**:
We currently have a rare and exciting opportunity to join our Finance team as a Business Operations Finance Assistant in a full time and permanent capacity based at our Glen Waverley office.

This position will assist the Senior Finance Business Partner to support and provide advice in regard to strategic and operational decision making to drive business performance and improvements.

In addition, further responsibility areas of the role will include assisting with key components of the Business Operations Finance function such as preparation of the annual budget, forecasting, monthly business reporting and annual regulatory reports.

Please note that this role is based at our Glen Waverley office with travel to our CBD office also required.

**What you’ll deliver in this role**:

- Be able to understand the business, its value drivers and its policies & practices and build effective working relationships with key stakeholders
- Review results of relevant business areas with stakeholders ensuring the information is high quality, results are well understood, and supporting analysis is provided
- Improve monthly reporting to identify key trends and key analysis for business units
- Support in the delivery of monthly business unit reports, to appropriate level of quality and efficiency and with sufficient insight to allow appropriate decisions to be made.
- Support the preparation of the budgets, forecasts and 10 year plans for your business unit portfolio challenging the business to ensure that all necessary items are included within targeted expenditure levels
- Deliver on an expectation of continuous improvement of processes and performance.

**To succeed in the role, you’ll have**:

- Tertiary qualification in business, commerce, finance or accounting
- Working towards CPA/CA is preferred
- Knowledge of general accounting policies and procedures
- Working knowledge of SAP (or similar ERP system)
- Strong communication/interpersonal skills to interact effectively with key stakeholders
- Strong excel and power-point skills
- Prior accounting experience is preferrable, but not mandatory.

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**

If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us.

Beon, CitiPower Powercor and United Energy recognise Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge their ancient and continuing connection to Country.

We work hard to ensure our organisation is inclusive and diverse. This means everyone can feel valued, trusted, authentic and safe at work.

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