Senior Business Partner - Finance

The Role

Cockburn Cement currently has an opportunity for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to lead the commercial finance function for the Cement & Lime West Operations. Based in Munster, WA, this role will partner with the General Manager of WA operations and the broader team to deliver transparent, accurate, and timely financial insights. The role focuses on driving business improvements, identifying value creation opportunities, and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation.

If you are a commercially astute finance professional with strong leadership and communication skills, this is your opportunity to join a leading organisation dedicated to excellence and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial insights to support operational teams and identify value creation opportunities.
• Lead the preparation of budgets and forecasts for Cement & Lime West Operations.
• Collaborate on long-range strategies and capital expenditure proposals, including DCF analysis and financial modelling.
• Deliver monthly management reporting packs, including dashboards on key performance drivers.
• Support ad hoc requirements and continuous improvement initiatives through innovative financial analysis.
• Foster collaboration and accountability within the team while promoting diversity and inclusion.
• Provide constructive feedback, manage performance gaps, and support career progression.
• Build and lead a high-performing team that embraces change and strives for excellence.

What You Will Need to Succeed

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in finance or a related discipline.
• CPA/CA membership or equivalent professional qualification.
• 8+ years of finance experience, including business partnering and supporting budgeting, forecasting, and reporting activities.
• Proven success in executing commercial strategies and driving business improvement is essential.
• Leadership experience, particularly in large, complex organisations within the manufacturing, cement, or mining sectors.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and ERP systems (SAP experience advantage).
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and contribute effectively to a dispersed team.

Creating and supporting a diverse workforce

Cockburn Cement recognises that diversity in our workforce drives innovation, encourages creativity and better equips us to respond to the challenges facing our industry. We are committed to increasing diversity within our workforce and our industry as a whole and as such, we welcome and strongly encourage applications from women and Indigenous people.

Our business

Cockburn Cement is the leading Western Australian manufacturer of cement, lime and packaged cement and drymix products. We supply the construction, mining and agricultural industries and with the emergence of major global resource industries, have become a major supplier of lime for alumina, gold and mineral sands processing industries. Our major manufacturing operations are located at Munster, Kwinana, Dongara and Woodman Point with smaller plants and depots in regional locations.

Cockburn Cement is a fully owned entity of Adbri Limited; a constructions materials and industrial minerals manufacturing company who has been building a better Australia since 1882. Adbri's portfolio of respected brands employs over 1500 people nationally and provides the cement, lime, concrete, aggregates, concrete products and industrial minerals that allows us to be always ready for the next challenge.