Manager Finance Business Partnership Copper SA | Adelaide

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 Head of Finance Business Partnership Copper SA, this manager role is responsible for the financial performance of the Copper SA operations. You’ll be required to lead a team of Finance Business Partners and support the Copper SA Head of Finance along with Operational GMs and associated teams. You will provide specialist financial advice, develop relationships with site leadership and operational personnel and build financial acumen in the Asset. You will create value through improving the quality of business decisions, through analysing financial data, options and valuing opportunities to enhance business outcomes.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Finance business partnering for Copper SA Operations – Influencing and challenging the teams in cost control and productivity, capital allocation and efficiency and continuous improvement
• Manage, mentor and guide a team of Finance Business Partners in providing financial insight, value coaching and business acumen to decision making
• Engage with operational teams to identify, advise and evaluate productivity and value creation initiatives along with understanding and quantifying plan delivery risk. 
• Work closely with the Copper SA Finance lead team to deliver the annual two year budget financial submissions with analysis.
• Review business case development and investment evaluation on operational capital and continuous improvement projects
• Ad-hoc analysis and reporting to communicate hypotheses and financial recommendations
• Coach and build business acumen with the Finance Business Partners along with key stakeholders in financial knowledge and the use of information systems to determine cost and budget outcomes and to improve understanding of financial implications of decision making
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration through working with a number of stakeholders from operations, other functions (Supply, Asset Projects, Engineering, Risk, Human Resources, Technology) and the wider Global Finance Function such as Accounting, Tax and Investment Evaluation.
• Identify and implement opportunities for the continual improvement within the department

This role is based in Adelaide with some travel to the Copper SA operational mine sites.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will be able to deal with multiple priorities and stakeholders, with the ability to delegate whilst maintaining a high attention to detail.  You will be naturally curious with an improvement mindset, inspiring challenge via your highly effective communication and superior interpersonal skills, building constructive relationships and credibility with a range of stakeholders and cross functional teams.   An understanding of mining and the process drivers is required.

Key experience and attributes:

• Extensive experience as finance professional, or a technical/engineering specialist with strong commercial acumen and some finance exposure
• Ability to work with technical subject matter experts and quickly grasp technical problems / complex issues and synthesise into clear and concise business cases and analyses
• Demonstrated commercial/operational thinking and experience making value-based business decisions for a commercial return
• Ability to analyse and effectively communicate (written and oral) analytics outcomes to stakeholders and senior management
• Ability to quickly build rapport and credibility with stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
• Understand the key business issues and associated impacts in related disciplines including accounting/reporting, corporate governance, investor relations, tax, treasury, legal and risk management
• Post Graduate qualifications such as Masters or MBA, CPA, CFA or CA highly desirable

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.

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 inclusion@bhp.com.