Senior FP&A Business Partner
Location- Sydney or Brisbane Australia
Work Arrangement- Hybrid
The Senior FP&A Business Partner is a critical role within the FP&A CoE providing endtoend financial planning consolidation and performance insight to support effective decisionmaking across the business. The role plays a central part in endofmonth performance management budgeting forecasting and longrange planning pulling together financial results operational inputs and key drivers into a coherent decisionready view for senior leadership. The role partners closely with various areas across the business to ensure alignment between actual performance forecasts and strategic plans.
The role plays a critical part in driving performance excellence leveraging continuous improvement (LEAN) principles SAP S/4HANA automation and effective change management to improve recovery accuracy reduce leakage and enhance endtoend process efficiency. The role also works closely with offshore shared service centres to standardise processes improve data quality and enable scalable efficient operations.
What we do at Weir
We are a global leader in mining technology for a sustainable future. We help our customers extract the resources the world needs more efficiently and more sustainably. Our planets future depends on the transition to renewable energy and that transition can only happen with the metals and minerals our customers deliver. So we work side by side with mines across the globe to move less rock use less energy use water wisely and create less waste. Together we drive the shift to smart efficient and more sustainable mining.
Make your impact
Youll play a key role in solving real-world challenges. Youll apply your skills to deliver results that matter whether thats through engineering planning or customer support. Youll work with purpose learn every day and help shape a more sustainable future.
Performance Management:Own and coordinate the FP&A contribution to month-end close consolidating financial results flash reporting and performance analysis to provide a clear decision-ready view for senior leadership.
Business Partnering:Act as a trusted FP&A partner to senior business and finance stakeholders with a strong focus on business partnering to ensure alignment between actual performance forecasts and strategic plans.
Budgeting & Forecasting:Lead the coordination and consolidation of budgets forecasts and long-range plans developing driver-based models linking operational activity to financial outcomes challenging assumptions to ensure robust and transparent plans.
Reporting & Insights:Provide clear decision-oriented insights by translating financial results forecasts and trends into actionable narratives; review and improve management and executive reporting for relevance and alignment with key value drivers.
Continuous Improvement:Apply LEAN principles and automation to streamline FP&A processes improve recovery accuracy reduce leakage and enhance end-to-end process efficiency.
Systems & Governance:Serve as a key FP&A SME for planning and reporting tools including SAP S/4HANA; ensure strong data governance reconciliation and control across planning and reporting cycles.
Safety First:Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world-class safety culture.
What youll bring
Must-haves:
Bachelors degree in finance accounting economics or business
Strong experience in FP&A financial planning or management reporting in a complex environment
Proven expertise in budgeting forecasting consolidation and performance analysis
Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and FP&A/reporting tools
Nice-to-haves:
Professional qualification (CA CPA or CIMA)
Experience applying continuous improvement (LEAN) and automation in finance processes
Excellent communication and storytelling skills
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate effectively in a matrix environment
Why join Weir
We live our values we think safety first do the right thing respect each other aim high and delight our customers. We encourage our people to lead by example and celebrate our successes.
Were passionate about our purpose to help deliver the natural resources that are essential to create a better future for the world. We do this by combining our deep customer insights world-class engineering materials science expertise and intelligent automation to deliver innovative end-to-end solutions incorporating our signature technologies.
We believe your voice matters and your ideas make a difference. Were working hard to nurture a diverse culture where our people feel like they belong and can do the best work of their lives. You can help shape our unique culture through our inclusion networks and safety initiatives.
Benefits
Competitive pay
Career development and learning support
Access to global inclusion networks
Regional and team-specific benefits
Sharebuilder scheme
Wellness support for you and your family
Collaboration with global teams
Study support
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