Principal Finance Business Partner

**Date**:4 Apr 2024**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Chile**Job State/Province**:Antofagasta**Job Location/Region**:Escondida**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- The position will engage and influence the Operations/Functions on the delivery of Business plans, helping better manage the cost base (both capex and opex) and getting maximizing business value.**Key Accountabilities**:

- Shifting and breaking paradigms within the business- Able to hunt for value 100% of the time, working with all levels of the business and across functions to design and implement these changes.
- Building financial acumen within line leadership, using all the information generated by A&R to coach and influence the team on how they can monitor their activities based on cost and value
- Providing critical and accurate financial analysis to support decisions on tactical and strategic business challenge
- Uses their technical background and expertise to coach and mentor peers and colleagues across Finance to ensure delivery against performance targets.
- Leads the implementation and monitors effectiveness of Finance BP improvement initiatives
- Reviews financial analysis performed in the assessment of improvement projects, cost savings initiatives and cost drivers and shares insights with local management teams.
- Work collaboratively within the larger data analytics team
- Uses analytics models, systems and tools to ensure an optimal approach in delivering business requests that drives process efficiency and standardisation.
- Works with Ops to collect and process all inputs to 2-Year Budget and quarterly forecasts, focusing on driving performance to benchmarks.
- Analyses output of 2-Year Budget and quarterly forecasts for variability and improvement opportunities.
- Month end cost analysis and control. Working closely with the operations and areas to understand any deviation
- About You**To be a top performer you will need**:

- Degree qualification in Business, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Availability to travel two weeks a month to Escondida mining site.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience.
- Working in and navigating stakeholders in a highly complex, global and dynamic organisation - requiring indirect influence.
- Experience working in innovative, best practice organisations or business units.
- Operational Commercial and Financial background.
- Highly developed negotiation and decision making skills.

**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.