Finance Business Partner

**Finance Business Partner**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About us**:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the distribution networks providing reliable, safe and affordable electricity to 1.9 million customers located across Northern, Western and South Eastern Victoria. These customers include 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.

In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. Our people are also at the frontline in developing and implementing innovative technologies and solutions necessary for the future of our industry not only in Victoria but globally.

This is a workplace that's both dynamic and welcoming, where our people learn from the best in the business, and where there's a focus on inclusivity, collaboration, and rewarding the individual and their aspirations.

**About the role**:
We are currently looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join our Corporate Services team in a full time and permanent capacity based at our Market Street head office.

This role will be responsible for partnering with the relevant business to support and provide advice in regards to their strategic and operational decision-making using insight to drive business performance.

Key responsibilities for this role also include preparation of annual budgets, periodic forecasting and reporting activities to ensure that the business has appropriate resources for decision making purposes.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Provide commercial/financial analysis and recommendations to stakeholders to support decision making
- Partner with the business unit management teams in achieving their strategic objectives
- Review results of relevant business areas with stakeholders ensuring the information is high quality, results are well understood, and supporting analysis is provided
- Manage delivery of monthly business unit business reports, to a high level of quality and efficiency and with sufficient insight to allow appropriate decisions to be made
- Support the preparation and co-ordination of the forecasts, budget and 5 year plan to ensure all necessary items are included within targeted expenditure levels
- Deliver on an expectation of continuous improvement of processes and performance
- Monitor performance and instigate follow up, where required in relation to Service Level Agreements to ensure accurate reporting of revenue and costs
- Actively seek efficiencies and improvements via reporting, process or use of systems, working with the Systems Accountant as appropriate.

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

- Tertiary qualifications in business / accounting and CPA/CA qualifications
- Extensive experience in the area of Management Accounting/Business Partnering
- Demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles/practices, financial analysis, modelling and business reporting skills
- Demonstrated track record in delivering optimal business outcomes
- Ability to think strategically and objectively, taking a whole of business approach to decision making, analysis and problem solving
- Excellent commercial judgement and an instinct for understanding business drivers and identifying the right business questions
- Ability to gain clear agreement and commitment from others by influencing, convincing and building partnerships in order to reach solutions.

**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 Cu