Management Accounting

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

This role provides leadership and oversight across key Management Accounting and Finance Operations processes, including Fixed Assets and Accounts Payable for Minerals Americas. It drives strong financial governance, process excellence, control effectiveness, and stakeholder partnership, while ensuring compliance with BHP policies, accounting requirements, and Finance standards. The role enables accurate and timely financial reporting, robust balance sheet management, high-quality financial data, and continuous improvement across end-to-end Finance processes.

Core Accountabilities

• Ensure conformance with the BHP Charter, BHP Our Requirements, Code of Conduct.
• Lead the effective delivery and governance of Management Accounting processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting and adherence to accounting standards and established control requirements.
• Provide oversight of Fixed Assets and Accounts Payable processes, ensuring appropriate financial controls, accounting treatment, process compliance, and timely resolution of issues impacting financial reporting.
• Lead the review and approval of account reconciliations, journals, trial balance reviews, External Briefing Papers, Stewardship Reviews, and A&R reports, as applicable, ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of financial information.
• Drive strong balance sheet governance and financial control, proactively identifying accounting issues, aged or outstanding items, control gaps, and financial risks, and ensuring appropriate remediation and sustainable resolution.
• Build and sustain strong partnerships with key stakeholders to support financial outcomes and business priorities.
• Proactively manage financial, operational, and control risks by identifying gaps, implementing appropriate mitigation actions, monitoring control effectiveness, and driving sustainable improvements.
• Drive process excellence and continuous improvement across Management Accounting and Finance Operations, promoting standardization, simplification, automation, and sustainable ways of working.
• Lead and enable the team through the clear cascade of business priorities and plans, effective management of health and wellbeing, and establishment of clear individual accountabilities and KPIs.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, financial discipline, collaboration, and operational excellence through proactive leadership and adherence to BOS practices.

About You

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with solid experience in financial and management accounting.
• Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to coach, develop, and engage high-performing teams.
• Strong SAP and finance systems experience, with a good understanding of financial controls and reporting.
• Strong continuous improvement mindset, focused on simplifying, standardizing, and improving finance processes and controls.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to solve problems, manage priorities, and build strong working relationships.

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.