Principal Risk Business Partner

**Date**:23 Jan 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:10-Feb-2025;15:59:59GMT

**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Western Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Perth

**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**
- The **Principal Risk Business Partner - Portfolio and Strategy Development (PS&D)** acts to support the delivery of BHP’s growth agenda and strategy development and execution by optimising our risk support model. The role will act as a trusted risk advisor for our stakeholders, protecting and creating value through risk expertise, insights, oversight and challenge.
- This role offers the opportunity to make a big impact on a global level. Your accountabilities will include:

- Optimise Risk support for transactions, supporting effective decision making by leadership and the Board by providing risk analysis that balances upside with associated threats
- Define a common approach to support PS&D activities with risk management tools and templates and clarifying customer interfaces to maximise value, build capability and remove waste
- Provide support for select investment transactions
- Risk business partner support for our PS&D risk and control owners, providing insights, oversight and challenge
- Support continued improvement in risk based strategic decision-making, advising on the performance of Key Risk Indicators and emerging risk signals
- Leverage expertise and experience across transactions and PS&D’s risk profile to supplement GRIA’s risk intelligence, connection into Strategic Business Objectives and Annual Improvement Priorities
- Monitor risk performance, capability and culture within PS&D to build a deep understanding of relative strengths and gaps to inform action and reporting
- Build PS&D team risk capability and culture to support sustainable risk outcomes including through coaching, training and storytelling
- Support the Portfolio & Commodities Strategy, and Assets & Growth Options Priority Group Risk, in collaboration with the Group Risk Owners, providing insight, interface and reporting capability

**About You**
- Strategic thinker with a strong collaboration focus.
- Extensive experience liaising with, and influencing, diverse stakeholder groups spanning functional disciplines, diverse leadership teams from multiple geographies, commodities, jurisdictions, and senior executives.
- Significant experience in risk management in a strategic environment, with extensive knowledge of professional standards (NIST, ISO31000, COSO, and RIMS).
- Strong analytical skills and evaluative judgment in complicated or novel situations, with attention to detail and quality control to ensure work is factually accurate and free from error.
- Global perspective and understanding of portfolio management, strategy, mining and processing industries.
- Professional post graduate risk management qualification through an accredited organisation (preferred).
- Degree in relevant field such as risk, commerce, finance or law.

**Location and Roster**
- We have flexibility for this role to be based at our BHP Australia corporate offices in Perth, Brisbane or Adelaide. You will be working Monday to Friday roster and flexible work is also offered.
- Application close on **Monday, 10 Feb 2025**

**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**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represent