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 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.