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
Key Accountabilities:
• Serve as key contact in the coordination for budgeting/forecasting/loading into PRIME (WFP, Overheads, Work Management and mine plans)
• Communicate the Asset objective and context to budget owners by preparing presentations and delivering it to the various departments
• Coordinate site inputs, ensuring timely and accurate submission into PRIME, validated for completeness and reasonableness
• Perform in-depth financial analysis and benchmarking to identify cost gaps and recommend efficiency improvements.
• Responds to needs of site stakeholders with ad hoc forecasting, reporting, analysis and testing of strategic hypothesis
• Conducts detailed analysis / benchmarks to understand gaps and provides the budget owners with sound recommendations on driving efficiency of the operations costs
• Drive process improvements by streamlining finance-related workflows and enhancing data quality, usage, and presentation
• Represent and advocate for the Budgeting & Forecasting (B&F) system and are subject matter experts on B&F for their Operation.
• Acts as custodians of asset’s B&F system health by encouraging team member to raise incidents to report any anomalies/unexpected performance
• Point of escalation for other team members where they are not getting traction resolving B&F issues
• Whilst not responsible for training all users of the system, are subject matter experts to draw upon where knowledge gaps exist
• Ensure the accuracy of the key cost drivers (e.g., diesel burn rates, powder factor, labour rates, etc)
• Supports the health of the ‘System of Cost Control’/cost discipline at operations through:
• Participating in site reviews and providing financial insights during operational performance meetings.
• Leading the month-end process for their operation, including preparation of commentary,
posting of ad hoc journals, and coordination of activities with the GBS team. Also supports
in-depth analysis to understand variances and identify necessary corrective actions
• Executing Field Leadership (FL) activities to improve operational safet
• Embodies all the BOS Practices and partners with the operational and functional
stakeholders to continuously improve the cost base of the asset
• Delivering financial acumen training to operations/functions.
• Acting as L3 and L5 approver for WAVO initiatives.
Engage the capabilities of the entire organisation to enable problem solving, alignment,
removal of duplication of work and ensuring correct accountabilities
• Ingrain BOS in all activities
• Foster and support a values-driven Finance culture, promoting psychological safety, collaboration and wellbeing through initiatives that support both physical and mental wellness
About You
- Degree qualification in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent
- CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or CA (Chartered Accountant) license is required.
- Experience in finance business partnering, including providing strategic financial insights and collaborating with operational teams
- Experience in mining industry is preferred but not required
- Ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders and cross functional teams to deliver value.
- Demonstrate capability to create a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and delivery of value-add results.
- Enthusiastic and confident with ability to motivate others and work autonomously.
- Good attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines, prioritise and problem solve.
- Strong business awareness, commercial mind-set and risk awareness skills.
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].
