Company Description
For over 100 years, BlueScope continues to build on our reputation of quality brands and products, leading technology and a customer-first spirit. Through our global brands, we are one of the largest manufacturers of building solutions in the world. Our diverse, bright and inspired workforce is committed to bettering the communities we serve through breakthrough thinking and innovations. Your goals, ideas and perspective can help shape our future – we look forward to hearing them!
Job Title: Financial Analyst
Department: Finance & Accounting
Job Title Reporting to: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Primary Purpose & Value of the Department & Position
The Finance & Accounting department ensures the company’s leadership team is provided with timely, high quality and accurate financial information and advice regarding actual, forecasted and budgeted results. This information is critical to support business decisions via identification and analysis of key business drivers and evaluation of cost/benefit analysis and business improvement options.
The Financial Analyst I is the central player in the reporting and analysis of financial results and working with the financial leadership team. In addition, the Financial Analyst I assists to translate business objectives into strategies, actions and targets applicable to the management and finance team that deliver short-term objectives (month to month) but also provide a realistic foundation to achieving longer-term objectives (a year or more ahead). This is a Full Time, Hybrid Role.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities *
- Ensure the leadership team is provided with timely, high quality and accurate financial information and advice regarding actual, forecast, and budgeted results. This information is critical to support business decisions via identification and analysis of key business drivers and evaluation of cost/benefit analysis and business improvement options.
- Prepare financial evaluations, prepare and manage budgets, prepare business plans, report on performance to plan, communicate and educate about key business results, stewardship of assets and risk management activities, and submit non-plant capital expenditures
- Manages product costing and inventory valuation for multiple plant sites
- Provide impromptu financial analysis and detail in a very quick turn-around environment under intense pressure with multiple priorities
- Manages product costing and inventory valuation for multiple plant sites
- Deliver continuous improvement in the quality of the management and financial reporting systems and output, identifying opportunities to extract additional value and reduce business complexity.
- Support via the preparation of material for presentation and discussion with company’s leadership team – monthly business review process
- Improve stewardship of the regional business assets by ensuring adequate controls and adherence to policies and standards
- Ensure adherence to the regional Delegation of Authority
- ongoing
Key Relationships
Internal:
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Sr. Financial Analyst
VP Finance
Line/Area Manager(s)
Plant manager(s)
Commercial Team
Peers
External:
Key customers
External audit
Internal audit
Consultants for Department of Commerce filings
Education & Experience Qualifications
Minimum:
Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or a related area
3 years of experience in an accounting role with emphasis in financial analysis role
Accounting degree
1 year working with an ERP system
Preferred:
MBA degree
3+ years of experience in a cost accounting role
5+ years of experience in a relevant role
Certified Public Accountant certification
Construction and Manufacturing operations experience
Experience with SAP
Skills & Competencies
Dealing with ambiguity
Organizational agility – Connect and communicate across the business
Drive for commercial outcomes by applying business acumen
Drive improved performance and change
Contribute to strategy
Leverage digital awareness for continual finance transformation
Apply functional/technical skills
Manage risk and governance
Managing through systems
Customer focus
Presentation skills
Planning
Intellectual horsepower
Problem solving
Initiative
Additional Information
The preceding job responsibilities and tasks were designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by associates in this job. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job duties and responsibilities required of associates assigned to this job. Associates may be required to perform other duties as assigned. Additional job competencies, individual goals, and performance measurements are set at the department level.
The benefits are just as rewarding as the work at BlueScope. To support our goal, we offer a total compensation plan and an outstanding benefits package that includes health insurance, life insurance, short and long term disability, paid time off, and retirement.
EEO: Employer/M/F/Disabled/Protected Veteran
BlueScope is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status, as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
- Accounting degree
- Three years of experience in an accounting role with an emphasis on financial analysis
- One year of experience working with an ERP system
- MBA degree
- Three or more years of cost accounting experience
- Five or more years of experience in a relevant role
- Certified Public Accountant certification
- Construction and manufacturing operations experience
- Experience with SAP
What We Do
With 14,000 people across 18 countries, BlueScope is a leading international supplier of steel products and solutions for building and construction markets. Australia’s largest manufacturer, BlueScope’s portfolio of brands includes COLORBOND®, ZINCALUME® and TRUECORE® steels and the LYSAGHT® range of building products. Steel plays a critical role in sustainable development. To BlueScope, sustainability means developing, manufacturing and selling steel products and solutions in a way that provides for a sustainable future, with a focus on continuous improvement, adopting new operating methods and anticipating new products for the future. BlueScope’s long-term growth is underscored by the sustainability of steel and the critical role it will play in supporting a sustainable society. We take a life-cycle approach, looking at the impact of a product over its entire life and focusing on the four principles of a circular economy: reduce, reuse, remanufacture and recycle. Our steel products and services ensure that we contribute to the opportunities and challenges of society’s move to a lower-carbon economy. To deliver long-lasting value and meet the expectations of all of our stakeholders, our business must transform on all fronts. Read BlueScope's latest Sustainability Report at bluescope.com/sustainable-steel. Interested in an exciting career at one of Australia’s most reputable companies with a track record of making things happen? Find out more at bluescope.com BlueScope has been named an Inclusive Employer for 2019–2020 by the Diversity Council of Australia.
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