Head of Finance Business Partnership - Assets

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Finance to join our Asset Management team, will be a key member of the Asset Leadership team and will also collaborate closely with the regional Finance leadership team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of the asset, driving strategic financial planning, and ensuring robust financial controls. The Head of Finance stewards the capital portfolio and ensures projects appropriately compete for constrained capital to enhance value and returns.

This role will be based in the Asset.

Accountabilities  

• Applies an understanding of the business context and end-to-end value chain to deliver value maximizing opportunities 
• Conducts timely and accurate reporting to drive insight that enables internal and external customers to make informed decisions. 
• Act with a business owner mindset with operational colleagues and seek to understand and optimize the value chain through identifying areas for process improvement and redesigning processes accordingly. 
• Chair the Asset Investment Review Committee and own the capital portfolio decision making process for the Asset. Embed sustainable BOS practices, including standardized work to drive improved safety and performance. Understands effective problem solving methodologies and leverages this expansive skillset to distil symptoms of problems into root causes and establish gap-closing solutions for the business.  
• Makes evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer term business objectives. 
• Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders. 
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP's risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes. 
• Plans, tracks the delivery of and manages a project to generate value and drive the achievement of project outcomes. 
• Defines value drivers and determines the boundaries of an opportunity to determine if it is worth further investment. 

About You

You are an enthusiastic, confident self-starter who is able to work independently and as part of a team. With either an Accounting, Engineering or Finance degree (or both with postgraduate) you will have previous experience in a leadership role. Your strong technical understanding of valuation, budgeting, forecasting, will support your operational understanding and enable you to add value through commercial insight. Strong attention to detail and critical thinking will be key to your success, as will your ability to achieve deadlines and problem solve.  

A performance and commercially orientated professional, your technical finance & valuation strengths cultivated in large/complex organizations will be complemented by excellent people skills, engagement and communication, high energy levels, and an action-oriented attitude tempered by simplicity.  An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment and sustainable development is a must. 

Requirements 

• Tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or relevant field; advanced degree preferred 
• Proven leadership experience in valuation, budgeting, and forecasting within a sector with similar complexities, geographically dispersed footprint, capital allocation, and market headwinds 
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders, including ability to drive results and lead change outside immediate direct report team.  
• A strong commercial mindset and ability to create long term value. 
• A track record of building and leading high performing culture and teams across multiple locations and disciplines to deliver performance 
• Working with senior business leaders within a large organisation to shape business strategy and associated Finance processes and plans; demonstrated ability to think strategically and act as a thought partner for senior business leaders  
• Partnering with leaders across a wide range of organisational scenarios (e.g. start up, downsizing, mergers, under-performance / dysfunction, high performance) and in a complex labour relations environment