At Western Power, we’re committed to safely and efficiently connecting the community with the energy, deliver on this promise first-hand by joining our team as a Senior Finance Business Partner (15-month Fixed Term Opportunity).
Apply today and partner with our business, proactively identifying and supporting cost-optimisation and productivity opportunities, ensuring financial performance that is accurately reported, easily understood, and drives commercial outcomes.
This role will include frequent travel to our depots. If you’re looking for a role with variety and where you can build impactful relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders – apply today!
Your Role in Action
- Proactively partner with stakeholders across the business to enable effective decision making related to key strategic, financial, and commercial opportunities and drive bottom line performance improvement.
- Demonstrate advanced influence and negotiation skills, proven ability to engage stakeholders to enable improved outcomes for the business.
- Effectively communicate clear and concise financial performance insights to the Senior Leadership team on a broad array of topics whilst adhering to deadlines.
- Demonstrate continuous improvement to improve accuracy and automation of financial reporting as well as identify initiatives to improve cost efficiency and productivity across the business.
- Demonstrate leadership skills, including influencing team members and stakeholders, with the ability to work collaboratively across the function whilst supporting the team in achieving its goals.
- Champion the delivery of a comprehensive suite of financial improvements (process and reporting) across all functions (e.g. budgeting, forecasting, financial performance reporting and ad hoc financial analysis).
- Identify systemic financial issues and manage initiatives to redesign and continually improve key standards, systems and processes to ensure a best for business outcome in alignment with Western Power’s Governance policies.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business, or a relevant discipline.
- Broad and extensive experience performing complex accounting, management reporting or financial analysis functions within a commercial environment.
- Demonstrated success in building and maintaining strong working relationships at all levels of an organisation.
- Excellent communication, complemented by adaptable interpersonal skills and highly developed influencing skills.
- Very strong business acumen, expert level analytical skills and significant experience working with best practice financial reporting systems and standards.
- Proven business/process improvement skills, ability to align detail-oriented tasks with the "big picture" and communicate accordingly to a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Strong blend of theoretical and practical knowledge in complex financial and analytical techniques, and the capability to plan own work and respect deadlines.
- Driver’s License essential – this role will include frequent travel to our depots to engage and effectively support our core staff.
By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations.
You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:
- Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
- Flexible work arrangements to support part-time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
- The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
- Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
- An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
- An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
- In addition to standard leave, enjoy two wellness leave days each year.
- Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office, perfect for cyclists.
- On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.
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