Principal Capital Finance Business Partner

About BHP

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

The Principal Capital Finance Business Partner acts as a trusted advisor to the business, providing commercial insight, constructively challenging assumptions, and supporting informed decision making across the capital lifecycle. The role has a strong focus on capital productivity, governance, prioritisation, and ensuring alignment between strategic objectives and capital deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnering with project and asset leaders to support capital planning, prioritisation, and performance management
• Providing investment evaluation and commercial advice on capital projects
• Stewardship of the capital portfolio, including cash prioritisation and governance
• Driving improved capital efficiency and value outcomes through insight and challenge
• Engaging across a broad range of stakeholders to support effective decision making
• Leading and delivering capital reporting, including portfolio performance insights, cash flow, and capital productivity reporting, to support governance, prioritisation, and informed decision making

About You

To be successful in this role, you will be able to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders while maintaining a high attention to detail. You will be naturally curious with a continuous improvement mindset, inspiring challenge through highly effective communication and strong interpersonal skills. You will build constructive relationships and credibility across a range of stakeholders and cross functional teams.

Key experience and attributes:

• Experience as a finance professional with strong commercial acumen and relevant finance exposure
• Well developed commercial and analytical skills, including the ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear, actionable insights for decision makers
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing capital investment, investment evaluation, or decision support, including providing commercial advice across the capital lifecycle and supporting disciplined capital allocation decisions
• Postgraduate qualifications such as a Master’s degree or MBA, CPA, CFA, or CA are highly desirable

About Our Process

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.  

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.