Senior Finance Business Partner

Job Description
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.
Together with your colleagues, clients and partners, you'll make an impact that is felt by all. See where your commitment could take you.

As a trusted advisor reporting to the Finance Manager – Victoria and South Australia, you will play an important role in supporting financial initiatives and contributing to business performance across these regions.

As a senior finance business partner, you will collaborate closely with non-finance leaders to provide strategic analysis and commercial insights that guide key business decisions. You'll proactively lead financial and management accounting initiatives, championing best practices, and fostering continuous improvement. You contribute to developing technical capability within the team, establishing robust cost reporting frameworks, and driving excellence in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.

Key to your success will be process improvement recommendations - streamlining processes and implementing efficient cost sharing methodologies. The role will also assist in the management of team members.

In this busy and varied role, you will be responsible for:

• Driving optimal financial performance by partnering with the business
• Providing trusted financial advice to key stakeholders to align business direction, financial strategies and utilising a variety of data sources to support sound decision making.
• Analysis and review actual v budget expense accounts on the PL Statement
• Provide support and assist Project Managers, Project Directors and other key stakeholders as required, including assistance with pricing/ commercial analysis support for project proposals and major projects.
• Ensure projects in the PM system are set up in accordance with the terms agreed with clients and accurately reflects the work breakdown structure, commercial terms and billing requirements.
• Monthly analytical reviews of projects (Budgets, Revenue, Work in Progress (WIP), Accounts Receivables, Project variances) and engaging with Project Managers/ Directors and stakeholders for discussion to ensure optimal performance including accurate revenue recognition, submission of billings in a timely manner and payment of client invoices on time.

What you will bring to the team:

• Bachelor degree, accounting major, pursuing or completed CPA/CA qualification or equivalent.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in Financial Accounting
• Demonstrated experience in professional services, construction or a project environment.
• Strong exposure in developing, analysing and reporting to Budgets and Forecasts.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, drive innovation and implement business solutions, with a track record of embracing change.
• Proven ability to influence, manage and prioritise across diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, appropriate for effective leadership engagement.
• Advanced skills in Excel and all Microsoft Office suite
• Experience working on BST10, Power BI, TM1 desirable.

The successful applicant can work in either our Melbourne or Adelaide office.

** Please note GHD offices will be closed from Thursday 25 December 2025 until Friday 9 January 2026 inclusive, with our offices reopening on Monday 12 January 2026. **

Interested? Apply now.
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GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities.

GHD embraces a range of flexible work practices to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where our people can thrive.

We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

We are a veteran friendly employer
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About Us
Come together and make a meaningful impact.
We bring our people together to create something bigger and solve some of the world's most complex problems. Come and experience the power of commitment and see strategy and ideas come to life when you join GHD.

Let's drive real change.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That's why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.

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Who We Are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.

The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.