Lead Principal Portfolio, Strategy & Development | Australia
BHP
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 Investment Evaluation team is part of the Portfolio Strategy and Development (PS&D) function, which brings together Investment Evaluation, Business Development, Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategy; Market Intelligence.
Our purpose is to lead investment evaluation activities across the Company to drive better, faster investment decisions that shape BHP’s future. We achieve this by being trusted advisors for the most important investment decisions and by embedding investment evaluation best practices, capabilities and technology across the organization, ensuring the value of every business decision is clear.
The role reports to the Head of Investment Evaluation Corporate and will lead portfolio level analysis and provide expert guidance on valuation concepts to support capital allocation decisions, corporate strategy, business development, and execution of transactions. The successful candidate will require excellent financial analysis, commercial acumen, and stakeholder management skills.
Key accountabilities in this role include:
- Provide investment teams and senior management with expert guidance on corporate finance, valuation concepts and methodologies to support evaluation activities across projects, M&A and commercial transactions.
- Lead financial analysis utilizing the BHP Corporate Model, providing insights on affordability, resilience and value maximization for the BHP portfolio.
- Lead annual valuation workstreams such as the Portfolio Valuation Review (PVR), Cost of Capital and Country Risk Premium reviews and present recommendations to senior management
- Challenge and influence strategic thinking. Effectively communicate valuation insights to senior management and key stakeholders, taking into account risk and uncertainty.
- Engage with internal stakeholders across PS&D, Finance and broader BHP teams to ensure operational and macro-economic assumptions are internally consistent and our valuations are robust.
- Train and develop team members in corporate finance and valuation methodologies to enhance their skills and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the team.
About You
As a successful candidate you will possess the following:
- Degree in a technical or business-related discipline; post-graduate qualifications (such as a Master's in Finance or an MBA) are highly regarded.
- Demonstrated experience with financial analysis and valuations in the resources or related industry (exposure to multiple commodities highly advantageous).
- Strong understanding of corporate finance theory, capital markets operations, and their practical application to investment evaluation, along with advanced financial modeling and valuation skills.
- Comprehensive understanding of key issues in related disciplines such as legal, tax, treasury, accounting/reporting, corporate governance, investor relations, and risk management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to effectively present corporate finance theory and evaluation outcomes to influence senior stakeholders
- Solid grasp of decision analysis methodologies, including framing and probabilistic analysis, and demonstrated commercial thinking with experience in making value-based business decisions.
- Experience in managing a team of professionals to deliver valuation analysis for capital projects, transactions, and strategic plans.
Open for applications until 21-May.
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.