Financial Planning & Analysis Director - B3 Consulting

A member of the North American Finance lead team. Manages a team of two direct reports.

Contributes through being a trusted business partner, the Financial Planning & Analysis Director supports and advises across business units to drive strategy and performance, facilitate commercial decision making, manage risk and help drive innovation and change. The FP&A Director is responsible for driving improved business performance through leadership of the Finance business partnering, performance reporting, planning and financial analysis functions across the company. The role drives optimization of capital allocation decision- making through deep understanding of industry trends, balance sheet management and application of the Capital Investment Framework.

Key Focus Areas:

• Oversight of company's financial planning and analysis function including management and performance reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting and long-term business planning
• Business partnering to business units to drive performance outcomes
• Functional owner of the Group Management Accounting and Capital
• Investment Framework policies and governance frameworks for company
• Preparation and presentation of routine and adhoc company level financial and business performance including engagement with NALT, ELT, Board and other internal and external stakeholders as appropriate
• Governance and reporting of the Regional cost ledger
• Commercial business partnering support to the Regional functional teams (Finance, Legal, HR, Sustainability and Strategy)

Management accounting and performance reporting:

• Functional owner of the Management Accounting policy and governance frameworks and their application at company including account and performance metric definitions, processes and driving standardization and efficiencies across the Group
• Preparation of presentation of routine and adhoc performance reporting to NALT, Board and ELT where appropriate incl Flash report, MFR and other routine and non- routine reporting activities
• Performance reporting for Short Term Incentive and Budget assessment purposes

Forecasting, budgeting and planning:

• Owner of company-wide financial planning processes incl monthly forecast, budget and long-term business planning processes
• Development and review of semi-annual market earnings guidance for submission to Corporate, including coordination of the financial due diligence process
• Key company owner of Key Business Drivers forecasts including price, spread and FX
• Coordination and key contributor to asset impairment testing modelling and processes (in partnership with business unit Finance teams and Corporate

Business partnering, financial analysis and insight:

• Deep understanding of macro/business drivers, preparation of analysis and engagement with businesses to improve reporting and analysis practices and drive business performance
• Data analytics and variance analysis, and sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Owner of company and business level financial modelling - scenario analysis, strategy /
• M&A, capital management analysis
• Optimization analysis, including profitability and working capital efficiency
• Governance oversight of NA Regional cost ledger including commercial support to the functional teams (Legal, HR, Sustainability and Strategy)

External reporting:

• Author and contributor to external reporting including OFR, investor presentations, ASX releases, investor Q&A (in partnership with BU Finance teams and Corporate)
• Custodian of all external variance analysis and reporting

Capital allocation and project governance:

• Company owner of the Group Capital Investment Framework, including its continued evolution and roll-out of progressive framework improvements
• Capital Governance, including ensuring consistent and appropriate application of capital policies and process across company; member of the Group Capital Investment Network
• Development and operation of the company capital prioritization process; scope includes capital expenditure, major opex projects and working capital management
• Provision of commercial support to major capital investment projects

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Champion of Company's Bond and Purpose
• Collaborative business partner
• Effective networker (internal and external) and connected communicator
• Creative problem solver
• Analytical approach to problem solving - ability to process and analyze data
• Practical understanding and knowledge of capital allocation frameworks and climate change issues
• Efficient, good at prioritizing

Required Experience:

• Ability to make strategic decisions amid uncertainty
• Tertiary qualified in commerce/business/accounting
• Experience leading teams, including direct reports and influencing across an organization
• Business partnering experience including deep understanding of forecasting, management reporting and financial performance measurement processes and tools
• Strong technical accounting knowledge developed in a business advisory capacity (Audit, Big 4) or within a complex corporate environment including comfort around ERP and financial consolidation systems eg. Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), SAP
• Demonstrated track record of identifying and implementing system-based improvement initiatives to deliver step-change in the efficiency and accuracy of planning and reporting processes
• Deep understanding of economic and financial forecasting/modelling and financial performance measurement processes and tools
• Advanced Excel/Word/PowerPoint skills; analytics skills and demonstrated attention to detail
• Demonstrated track record in effective change management and building sustainable organization capability related to the introduction and application of new business processes
• Experience leading teams, including direct reports and indirect influencing across an organization

Preferred Experience:

• Steel, mining or heavy manufacturing industry knowledge an advantage
• Management consulting or investment evaluation experience
• CA/CPA, post graduate qualification in business or finance preferable (e.g. MBA, CFA, Master of Finance)
• Commercial, projects and business experience preferred, including project or M&A execution leadership, due diligence, negotiation experience, project and business financial evaluation