Senior Financial Analyst

We are St Barbara, an Australian based, ASX 200 company with gold mining operations in Canada and Papua New Guinea. Our vision is to grow sustainably and create enduring, positive impacts for the people and communities touched by our operations.

Now is an exciting time for our business and for our people. We’re going through a period of significant change and are gaining momentum in transforming our business. We’re looking for people who are ready to grow through opportunity and build a bright future with us.​​

We are currently seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. This is permanent full-time position based in Perth CBD.

Reporting to the Manager Finance you will lead the group financial planning and analysis function, ensuring operational excellence and sound analysis for forward looking activities that assist senior stakeholders and optimise business performance.

The opportunity

• Developing and maintaining Life of Mine (LOM) planning models and strategic investment decision models to assist the senior management team in making value accretive decisions for shareholders.
• Leading the group’s business planning processes (including budget and forecast activities) across wholly owned and joint venture operations, driving strategic alignment and timely completion.
• Delivering accurate, timely and insightful Group consolidation of forecasts and budgets including joint venture operations supported by relevant commentary.
• Providing timely, accurate, standardised, and insightful performance reporting that drives achievement of business objectives and strategy and that focuses leadership’s attention on the business performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Empowering senior leadership to make value adding decisions through the provision of high-quality data and analytics, including analysis of joint venture performance.
• Actively challenging thinking and provide astute recommendations on how to maximise value and support St Barbara’s strategic ambitions supported by business analytics.
• Developing and maintaining Group procedures, including those relating to planning, forecasting and reporting for joint ventures.   
• Providing finance business partnering to functional departments through high quality financial and commercial support, analysis, insights, and recommendations for improvement.
• Supporting continuous improvement by driving simplicity and standardisation of finance processes, initiatives for own role and contribution to Finance function and Company initiatives.                                                                                                                                                                    

Are you ready to come and build your future with us?

We need the best people. People who have drive, energy and are genuinely passionate about the work they do and provide a positive impact. Additionally, we need people who see a challenge as an opportunity for growth and value working with others towards a common goal.​

We would love to hear from you if you have​:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or Business.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise.
• Demonstrated strategic and analytical thinking capability, with an ability to apply that capability to financial planning outputs.
• Proactive, high energy and resilience with demonstrated capacity to deliver under pressure.
• Flexible and continuous improvement mindset with a strong aptitude to problem solve.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end mining process.
• Demonstrated high level of computer literacy, with advanced capability in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Strong communication skills including interpersonal and influencing skills, with track record of meeting tight deadlines and delivering to promise.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and manage corporate and consolidated budgets and forecasts and providing insights to executive business decisions.
• Experience in performance reporting that drive accountability and strategic alignment.
• Exposure to joint venture accounting/operations would be desirable.

For further information on St Barbara and to apply for this role, please visit: https://stbarbara.com.au/working-with-us/current-opportunities

At St Barbara, we’re committed to finding the best fit for every role. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming diversity in all its forms. All qualified applicants will be given equal consideration, regardless of their race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.