Commercial Finance Manager

Boral; Ryde; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Hybrid work arrangement

Novated leasing & salary packaging

Parental leave and leave options

Job summary

Boral is seeking a commercially focused finance professional to partner with the Recycling leadership in NSW. You will align strategic recycling initiatives with financial targets and help ensure capital investments deliver the promised benefits.

In this role you will provide analytical support across sites, advise on pricing, contracts, and risk, and collaborate with operations to improve performance and sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Commercial finance partnering with operational stakeholders.
• Strong financial acumen and ability to translate data into business insight.
• Experience delivering financial outcomes in large industrial or manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the General Manager Recycling and their team to align and execute the Recycling strategy.
• Use financial targets, benchmarks, models and performance metrics to drive decision making.
• Improve short- and medium-term performance by recommending financial, operational and commercial solutions.
• Provide sound commercial support to operations to deliver profitable growth and test growth cost effectiveness.

Skills

Commercial finance partnering

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor degree in Commerce/Business/Finance or Economics

CA or CPA qualifications preferred

Job description

Partnering with the General Manager Recycling and our operational leaders, you will bring an independent commercial lens to decision making, support pricing, contracts and risk, and make sure our capital investments stack up and deliver.

Join Recycling at a genuine growth point, backed by Boral and SGH, where sustainability and the return of supply to our internal network shape the roadmap ahead.

The opportunity

Partnering with the General Manager Recycling and our operational leaders, you will bring an independent commercial lens to decision making, support pricing, contracts and risk, and make sure our capital investments stack up and deliver.

Join Recycling at a genuine growth point, backed by Boral and SGH, where sustainability and the return of supply to our internal network shape the roadmap ahead.

Your day will involve

• Partner with the General Manager Recycling and their team to align and successfully execute the Recycling strategy
• Use financial targets, benchmarks, models and performance metrics to drive strategic decision making and performance, against our business targets
• Improve short- and medium-term business performance by recommending financial, operational and commercial solutions
• Provide sound commercial and analytical support to operations to deliver profitable and sustainable growth, including testing the cost effectiveness of growth strategies and making sure approved capital investment decisions deliver the benefits promised
• Support a busy capital pipeline across plant, equipment and site development, and help assess potential acquisitions and integrate them into the P&L
• Provide input into internal transfer pricing, and work closely with the Commercial Finance Managers in Quarries, Concrete and Asphalt
• Partner with Operations and Sales Managers in their review of site, project and contract profitability, including recycled product pricing, gate fees and the impact of state waste levy settings and EPA license conditions
• Work with our joint venture partners in Victoria on reporting, performance and commercial matters
• Provide strong input into the preparation and delivery of operating budgets and forecasts in line with Group requirements, well supported by central resources
• Own the month end process and result close and analysis, and make sure reported results are materially correct
• Lead preparation of key management reports and own the Recycling Balanced Scorecard
• Provide timely and accurate in month P&L outlooks and capex forecasts, and help optimise working capital
• Lead weekly Profit Delivery Plan meetings and drive implementation of initiatives across the business unit
• Implement reporting and control frameworks, and provide input into audit, governance, risk and compliance
• Lead and develop one direct report, and build the financial literacy of a long tenured operational team

What are we looking for?

• A commercially focused and experienced finance professional, ideally with prior exposure to partnering with operational stakeholders
• Strong financial acumen
• Bachelor degree (or higher) in Commerce, Business, Finance or Economics, with CA or CPA qualifications preferred
• Wide and deep experience providing expert advice on financial outcomes for operations in large and complex industrial, manufacturing, resources or waste businesses
• Demonstrated ability to deliver improvement in performance through financial leadership and insight
• Proven commitment and track record in achieving strong financial, investment and performance results
• A collaborator who engages well with operations, is eager to take on new opportunities, and can pivot as the business grows
• Experience planning, managing and organising resources over short and medium timescales within an overall policy framework
• Comfortable with regular travel to our sites, and a current driver's licence

What's on offer?

• Attractive salary package reflective of your skills and experience
• Genuine career growth opportunities within Boral, in a business unit that is growing
• Flexibility in where you work, with monthly business reviews in NSW and regular time on site with the teams who run our operations
• We are Australian owned and operated
• Novated leasing, salary packaging and corporate discounts
• Generous parental leave policy and the opportunity to purchase additional leave

About Boral

Boral is the largest vertically-integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt and concrete batching operations. We employ about 9,000 employees and contractors across our operations that span more than 360 sites nation-wide. For more than 80 years we’ve been building something great in Australia - rarely a day goes by that you wouldn’t pass one of our sites or trucks, enter a building, use a road, bridge, tunnel, footpath or other critical infrastructure that our people and products have helped enable.

Boral is committed to a diverse working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All suitable applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability or age.