Specialist Finance Planning
BHP
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
You will bring your expertise 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.
Key accountabilities of this role include:
- Review and process inputs to the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and quarterly on-cycle forecasts
- Analysis of the outputs of the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and on-cycle forecasts against budget and aid in identifying improvement opportunities
- Provide Finance Business Partner support to Asset Functions.
- Performing month end analysis and commentary covering price, volume and efficiency variances
- Supporting Finance in improvement of the effectiveness of the function through integrated fit-for-purpose data analytics processes.
- Supporting the function in delivering data driven solutions to improve the businesses operation and financial performance.
- Engage with internal stakeholders.to present ideas, results and recommendations.
- Keeping up to date with data analytics trends and working with a Data Scientist and Finance Business Partners to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drive process efficiency and standardisation.
About You
- Strong stakeholder influencing skills, including demonstrated ability to use MS PowerPoint / Power BI to communicate complex ideas and drive change.
- Demonstrated understanding of finance master data structures/architecture and data requirements
- Demonstrated understanding of budgeting and forecasting, inventory costing models and /or joint venture accounting is advantageous.
- Advanced MS Excel skill and experience using Analysis for Office will be advantageous.
- Demonstrate strong focus on process improvements.
- 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.
- Ability to work with technical subject matter experts and grasp technical problems / complex issues and synthesise into business cases and analyses.
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.
If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
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.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at [email protected].