Specialist Planning & Reporting - Perth
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
Reporting to the Lead Finance Planning and Analytics (Mines), the Specialist Planning and Analytics enables value generation, through analysis of data and the development of robust financial plans.
You will bring your expertise in Finance Planning and Analytics 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. From time to time, you may be required to support ad-hoc requests/queries and assist with resolution of complex requests and escalations.
Key accountabilities of this role include:
- Working with the Finance Business Partners for Mines and respective business stakeholders to review and process inputs to the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and quarterly on-cycle forecasts, focusing on driving performance against benchmarks.
- Analysis of the outputs of the Two Year Budget, Final Budget and on-cycle forecasts against budget and aid in identifying improvement opportunities leading to effective cost management and achievement of unit cost guidelines.
- Provide Finance Business Partner support to Asset Functions.
- Performing month end analysis and commentary covering price, volume and efficiency variances; and providing insights to Finance Business Partners to socialise with Operations teams
- 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.
- Confidently presenting ideas, results and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
- 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
To be successful in this role, you will have the following attributes:
- A curious and analytical mind.
- 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 ability to collect/extract, interpret and review financial information.
- Demonstrated commercial/operational thinking and experience making value driven business decisions for a commercial return.
- 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.
- Track record of championing process improvements.
- Demonstrated understanding of budgeting and forecasting, inventory costing models and /or joint venture accounting is advantageous.
- Previous experience in Budgeting and forecasting is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in project management is advantageous.
Qualifications & Competencies
- 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.
- 2+ years of related experience with a preference for resources based experience.
- 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.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. 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.