Financial Strategist

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of our assets, driving strategic financial planning and ensuring robust financial controls. As a key member of our Asset Leadership team, you will collaborate closely with regional Finance leadership to steward the capital portfolio and ensure projects appropriately compete for constrained capital to enhance value and returns.

• Apply an understanding of the business context and end-to-end value chain to deliver value-maximizing opportunities.
• Conduct 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.
• Understand effective problem-solving methodologies and leverage 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.
• Determines the boundaries of an opportunity to determine if it is worth further investment.

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, and forecasting will support your operational understanding and enable you to add value through commercial insight.

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.

• 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 the 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 organization 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 organizational scenarios (e.g., start-up, downsizing, mergers, under-performance/dysfunction, high performance) and in a complex labor relations environment.

We offer a competitive salary of approximately $180,000 per annum, plus benefits.