About the role
DP World is looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join our Brisbane Terminal and work closely with our operations and engineering management. You will be the one bringing the numbers, the analysis, and the financial know-how that helps us plan smarter and stay on solid ground. If you enjoy getting into the detail while staying close to the action on a working terminal, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Accountabilities –
- Lead the annual budget, strategic planning, and quarterly forecasts, ensuring the terminal's direction is grounded in sound financial analysis
- Ensure the numbers behind the terminal genuinely stack up reviewing capex proposals and cashflow forecasts, keeping monthly management reporting accurate and on time
- Deliver financial analysis behind terminal initiatives, including Enterprise Agreement and labour modelling
- Team up with Operations and Engineering to find cost savings and business improvements
- Prepare monthly labour cost reports and keep working capital and reconciliations in good shape
- Guide and grow the finance team, helping build a group people genuinely trust and rely on
- Make sure every financial and required report goes out accurate and on time, with the attention to detail that keeps errors out and compliance solid
- Analyse monthly financial results and help managers across the business understand what those results actually mean and what to do next
Qualifications, Skills and Experience required:
- CPA/CA or equivalent required
- Minimum 5 years' broad experience in accounting and financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning
- Experience managing staff (direct or indirect)
- Hands-on experience with month-end close, management reporting, cashflow, and reconciliations
- Track record in capital expenditure evaluation and driving business improvement initiatives
- Experience in a terminal, logistics, ports, or industrial/operations-heavy environment highly regarded
- Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to influence and build trust across finance, operations, and engineering
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical ability and sound commercial judgement
- High accuracy and attention to detail
- Proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; familiarity with ERP systems
- Strategic thinking, with the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure
- Adaptable, achievement-oriented, and a genuine team player
About DP World
DP World is reshaping the future of global trade to improve lives everywhere. Operating across six continents with a team of over 125,000 employees, we combine global infrastructure and local expertise to deliver seamless supply chain solutions. From Ports and Terminals to Marine Services, Logistics and Technology, we leverage innovation to create better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
In Asia Pacific, DP World employs over 15,000 people across 22 geographies. We operate 17 ports and terminals, complemented by a comprehensive suite of end-to-end supply chain solutions - to connect the region to the rest of the world.
WE MAKE TRADE FLOW
TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.
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Skills Required
- CPA, CA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification
- At least 5 years of broad accounting and financial management experience
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning
- Experience managing staff directly or indirectly
- Hands-on experience with month-end close, management reporting, cash flow, and reconciliations
- Experience evaluating capital expenditure and driving business improvement initiatives
- Experience in a terminal, logistics, ports, or industrial/operations-heavy environment
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence finance, operations, and engineering stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical ability and sound commercial judgment
- High accuracy and attention to detail
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with ERP systems
- Strategic thinking and ability to manage competing priorities under pressure
- Adaptability, achievement orientation, and teamwork
DP World Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is considered competitive in many contexts, with strong salary perceptions in several regions. Feedback suggests compensation is sometimes viewed as equitable, with salary practices described as compliant and fair.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits: Wellness initiatives, flexible working hours, and practical supports like reimbursements for mobile, home internet, and home‑office equipment are emphasized. Feedback suggests these benefits contribute meaningfully to everyday work‑life needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Health coverage is described as comprehensive in some locations, including medical emergency coverage and life insurance. A broader emphasis on health, safety, and wellbeing programs reinforces this support.
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What We Do
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 108,000 employees, spanning 74 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future. We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses – Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. What’s more, we’re reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door. We make trade flow, to change what’s possible for everyone.
