Specialist Finance Business Partner

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
Reporting to the Manager Finance Business Partnership, the Specialist Finance Business Partner enables value generation, through analysis of data, development of robust financial plans and active coaching of stakeholders on financial data and performance. You will bring your expertise in Finance 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.

This role is site-based in Port Hedland and will be working on FIFO (Fly-In Fly-Out) arrangement.

Key Accountabilities

• Engaging in regular conversations and coaching with Operations teams, asking probing questions to deeply understand stakeholder needs, goals and challenges.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to review and process inputs to Budget and Forecast, focusing on driving performance against benchmarks.
• Conduct analysis of the outputs of planning processes against targets and aid in identifying improvement opportunities leading to effective cost management and achievement of unit cost guidelines.
• Performing month end analysis and commentary covering price, volume and efficiency variances; and providing insights to communicate with Operations teams.
• Supporting Finance in improvement of the effectiveness of the function through integrated fit-for-purpose data analytics processes.
• Supporting both Finance and Operations teams in delivering improvement to businesses operation and financial performance.
• Confidently presenting ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders.

About You

• 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.
• With significant years of relevant experience with a preference for resources-based experience.
• 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 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.
• Previous experience in Budgeting, Forecasting and Month End analysis is preferred.
• Ability to build relationships and influence key stakeholders.

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.

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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 represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

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