Senior Financial Planning (FP&A) Analyst
Sandfire
Date: 11 hours ago
City: Perth, Western Australia
Contract type: Full time

About The Role
Reporting to the FP&A Manager, the Senior FP&A Analyst, is responsible for leading the accurate and timely delivery of group budgeting and quarterly forecast, preparing analysis and insights to support internal decision-making and market reporting obligations, preparing the group’s performance reports and driving continuous improvement to systems, processes and broader FP&A capabilities across the group. This is both strategic and hands-on role, where you will be required to proactively engage and partner with corporate functions in Australia and operations functions globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparation of budgets, quarterly forecasts, group consolidation of financial plans including the analysis of financial information and production physicals.
- Preparation of presentation of planning outputs to support Executive decision-making and approvals.
- Maintain and communicate planning timetables in accordance with the Integrated Planning Group Standard and coordination of deliverables by the various business areas.
- Preparation of Board papers to support approval of the budget.
- Preparation of group performance reporting providing analytical insights to the group’s performance against budgets and forecasts.
- Preparation of annual and half year reporting deliverables including the operating and financial review sections of these reports.
- Provide analysis to support quarterly market reporting, investor updates or other external disclosures.
- Maintain a high degree of data integrity across systems, presentations and reports ensuring data is reconciled to source systems and any anomalies are identified and resolved in a timely manner.
- Support the transformation of the FP&A function including the design, development and implementation of systems, reports, processes and analysis, as well as support the transition of intra-function responsibilities.
- Provide business partnering support to corporate functions and operational stakeholders.
Key Competencies
- Solid understanding of accounting principles, financial statements and production and sales measures applicable to the mining industry.
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills, with the proven ability to synthesise large data sets with a high attention to detail.
- Strong written and oral communication, including the ability to distil key messages to different audiences (finance and non-finance stakeholders).
- Project and time management across multiple tasks (challenging, complex and dynamic deliverables and tight timelines).
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Strong understanding of the mining lifecycle and value chain.
- Good leadership qualities to actively mentor and support team members and other stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with i global stakeholders across the Sandfire group from different cultural backgrounds.
About You
- 5+ years of experience in FP&A/management accounting/business partnering within the mining sector in a multi-asset company.
- ASX-listed company experience highly regarded.
- Development and/or management of complex financial models.
- System experience with major ERPs and planning systems (Anaplan and Pronto highly desirable).
Benefits
- Attractive, market-competitive remuneration package, including incentives.
- Salary continuance insurance scheme.
- Flexible work arrangements. Corporate health insurance discount.
- Ongoing professional development opportunities; and
- Being a part of a Values-driven, inclusive, and respectful organisation.
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