Finance Business Partner

Full-time, permanent position with a major Newcastle employer
- Great working environment with a team of supportive, collaborative and engaged professionals
- Fast-paced and varied role focusing on partnering with the business and supporting Sales and Logistics activities

**About the role**

Are you someone who enjoys delivering accurate insights to business leaders to facilitate the making of informed decisions that lead to appropriate and timely outcomes? We are looking to hire an outstanding **Finance Business Partner** based in Waratah reporting to the Commercial Manager, to drive the provision of business unit financial support and strengthening business relationships across the sales and logistics business functions including:

- Partnering with functional leads to deliver accurate and timly budgets and forecasts
- Preparing analysis and commentary to explain material variances to budget and faciliating monthly busienss unit review meetings
- Maintaining detailed sales and freight reporting suites and providing other support to enable informed business decision making
- Educate and guide functional teams to develop improved financial literacy
- Monitoring transactional data and investigating anomolies
- Maintain sales quoting models and assisting staff in formulating offers
- Participate in costing and pricing review processes
- Preparing ad-hoc analysis, reporting and modelling to support decision making processes
- Participate in month-end close processes focussing on sales and freight activities

**About you**
- CA/CPA qualified
- Extensive experience in forecasting and monthly reporting processes
- Advanced financial modelling skills combined with strong analytical capability
- Business partnering experience
- Natural curiosity and the ability to think laterally
- Deomonstarted initiative with the ability to work across the business to collobratevely develop solutions to business challenges
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated experience in influencing and engaging stakeholders at various levels across an organisation
- Experience in a manufacturing industry and working knowledge of various costing methodologies is highly advantageous

In return, we offer rewarding careers, genuine opportunities to develop and grow, and a workplace culture that values and recognises effort and contribution.

**About Molycop**
- Molycop is the leading global supplier of forged steel grinding media that is critical to mineral processing, particularly in copper and gold mining. The company has unparalleled global reach with a local presence in all the key hard rock mining geographies. Its global footprint includes 12 state-of-the-art grinding media manufacturing facilities and 13 regional sales offices across North America, South America, Australasia and Europe as well as a centralised steel procurement office located in Singapore._
- In Australia, Molycop has a proud history of manufacturing that spans over a century, starting with the formation of The Commonwealth Steel Company Pty Ltd in 1917. The company pioneered Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking in Australia with steel production commencing in 1919 and has continued to evolve and I nnovate to support the growth and needs of critical Australian industries. Today, Molycop is Australia's sole manufacturer of essential steel products, such as grinding media, rail wheels, anode pins, ingots, special bar quality steels and specialty engineered fasteners for Australia's hard rock mining, rail transportation, aluminium smelting, forging and engineering industries. The company holds market leading sustainability credentials through its EAF steelmaking process, a long-term renewable energy purchasing commitment and exceptional recycling capability. The Molycop team is committed to building the circular economy, liberating value from waste streams and supporting customers' sustainability goals._
- _Our plant is central to Newcastle, based in Waratah with free on-site parking_
- _We are truly passionate about safety and proud of our safety performance and culture_
- _Our team goes above and beyond, is collaborative and supportive, and we enjoy coming to work_
- _We offer great conditions and benefits such as flexible working arrangements_
- _We have an on-site subsidised canteen plus discounted gym membership._

**Molycop recently won the award for the Best Health and Wellbeing Program at the Hunter Safety Awards Mental health matters and everyone has a story.**

**We work smarter, appreciate diversity and never back away from a challenge. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you