Senior Financial Analyst

4 weeks ago

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Western Power Full time

Do you want to deliver work that truly matters to our community?

At Western Power, we're working towards our vision for a clean energy future and we're looking for diverse, passionate people to join our team of world-leading experts.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst at the Perth CBD Office on an 18-month maximum term basis.

About this role

At Western Power, we're committed to safely and efficiently connecting the community with the energy needed to power their lives.

Deliver on this promise first-hand by joining our team as a Senior Financial Analyst.

This position is responsible for partnering with the business, proactively identifying and supporting cost-optimisation and productivity opportunities, ensuring financial performance is aligned to Western Power's strategy and is accurately reported, easily understood and drives appropriate commercial outcomes.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will:

  • Proactively partner with stakeholders across the business to enable effective decision making related to key strategic, financial, and commercial opportunities and drive bottom-line performance improvement.
  • Demonstrate advanced influence and negotiation skills, proven ability to engage stakeholders to enable improved outcomes for the business.
  • Effectively communicate clear and concise financial performance insights to the Senior Leadership team on a broad array of topics whilst adhering to deadlines.
  • Demonstrate continuous improvement to improve accuracy and automation of financial reporting as well as identify initiatives to improve cost efficiency and productivity across the business.
  • Demonstrate leadership skills, including influencing team members and stakeholders, with the ability to work collaboratively across the function whilst supporting the team in achieving its goals.
  • Identify systemic financial issues and manage initiatives to redesign and continually improve key standards, systems and processes to ensure a best-for-business outcome in alignment with Western Power's Governance policies.
  • Champion the delivery of a comprehensive suite of financial improvements (process and reporting) across all functions (e.g. budgeting, forecasting, financial performance reporting and ad-hoc financial analysis).

About you

We are seeking someone with experience and attributes that include:

  • Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Business, or a relevant discipline.
  • In exceptional circumstances only, comprehensive, broad practical and demonstrated experience and knowledge in required discipline without a recognised degree may be considered.
  • Broad and extensive experience of at least 10+ years performing complex accounting, management reporting or financial analysis functions within a commercial environment.
  • Demonstrated success in building and maintaining strong working relationships at all levels of an organisation.
  • Excellent communication, writing and interpersonal skills, complimented by highly developed influencing skills.
  • Very strong business acumen, expert-level analytical skills and significant experience working with best-practice financial reporting systems and standards.
  • Proven business/process improvement skills. Ability to align detail-orientated tasks with the 'big picture' and communicates accordingly.
  • Requires excellent theoretical and subject-matter expert practical knowledge of different and complex financial and analytical techniques, and the capability to plan own work and respect deadlines.

Joining Western Power

Our people play a vital role in creating an innovative, safe, and supportive workplace, living our values and delivering exceptional service to the communities in which we operate.

We are committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, women, young & mature age workers, the LGBTQI+ community.

We are an employer of choice, offering our employees a range of benefits that include:

  • Competitive salary plus 11% superannuation
  • Flexible work arrangements that support part-time work, flexible working hours and working from home arrangements
  • Professional Development opportunities including training initiatives and study assistance
  • An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme
  • Access to five Employee Network Groups – First Nations, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Diverse Sexualities and Genders, Women, and People with Disability – which celebrate and communicate the diversity of our workforce and connect diversity and inclusion to our broader business activities
  • The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year
  • Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership

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