Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

Fortescue Metals Group; Kidlington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortescue Metals Group is seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to support investment decisions across a portfolio of projects. The role involves developing financial models, collaborating with teams, and preparing business cases in a hybrid working environment. Join a leading company in zero emission power systems and contribute to a sustainable future.

Benefits

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Electric Car Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Private Medical Insurance

26 days holiday plus public holidays

Childcare Benefits

Free on-site gym access

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in financial modelling and analysis.
• Experience in commercial ventures and due diligence.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models for new and existing opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for accurate assessments.
• Prepare business cases and presentations for internal audiences.

Skills

Financial modelling

Commercial analysis

Economic analysis

Project evaluation

Leadership

Communication

Education

Tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, mathematics, or engineering

CFA, CIMA, ACA (or equivalent)

Job description

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Fortescue Zero’s mission is to be the world leader in zero emission power systems. We are developing and manufacturing the technologies needed to decarbonise our planet. We are expanding across the geographies of UK, US and Australia and becoming a global company. As part of Fortescue, our vision is to be the number one integrated green technology, energy, and metals company.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to join the Commercial department in a rapidly expanding and exciting work environment.

About the role

The role of the Senior Commercial Analyst will be supporting investment decisions across a broad portfolio of projects and product lines. The role will primarily undertake financial and economic assessments to support strategy in developing and executing large-scale projects. You will develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders, work closely with regional Commercial teams and with teams across Fortescue functions.

What you will do

• Develop financial models for new and existing opportunities and be a subject matter expert.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyse data, ensuring accurate and comprehensive financial and economic assessments.
• Engage with project teams to frame and analyse key project decisions.
• Support the leadership, business development managers and delivery managers by identifying and clearly communicating analytical insights to add value and inform the direction of critical business decisions.
• Prepare business cases, presentations, and briefing papers for internal, audiences (Senior Leadership Board, study partners, Fortescue Investment Centre etc.).
• Support governance and compliance activities.
• Support the setting of internal procedures and development of analytical tools to drive continuous improvement in financial and economic analysis methodologies.
• Stay abreast of economic trends, regulatory changes, and industry developments to inform project analyses.

About you

• Tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, mathematics, engineering, or professional qualifications such as CFA, CIMA, ACA (or equivalent).
• Experience in energy, or infrastructure would be an advantage.
• Significant experience in financial modelling. Ideally have experience of building financial models from the ground up based on ‘best practice’ principles.
• Extensive experience in commercial, financial, and economic analysis.
• Experience in commercial ventures, transactions, due diligence
• Experience in undertaking evaluation for Final Investment Decisions (FID) of projects will be an added advantage.
• Experience in project finance will be an added advantage.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to be agile and resilient when managing diverse workloads with multiple priorities and delivering work to a high quality and on time.

What is in it for you?

Our typical hybrid roles at Fortescue Zero require 3 days in the office and 2 from home, making the ability to commute to the stated office location for the required days essential.

• Group Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Electric Car Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 26 days holiday plus public holidays and the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days per year
• Childcare Benefits
• Free on-site gym access and discounted national memberships

Please note, if you are applying for a role which involves having access to personal data, you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks, could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics.We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified.Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.