Business Partners & Performance Finance Manager

Join us in a permanent opportunity within our Finance Team as our Business Partners and Performance Manager. You’ll inspire and guide a team of finance professionals while providing analytical and commercial insight that drives informed decision-making, embeds accountability, and lifts financial capability across the business.

Your Role in Action  

• Act as a trusted financial advisor to senior leaders, providing insightful, accurate and timely analysis that shapes financial strategy, influences decision-making and drives organisational performance.
• Lead end-to-end monthly financial reporting, delivering clear, compelling management, executive and Board reports that translate complex financial results into meaningful insights.
• Own the planning cycle, guiding the business through budgets, forecasts and long-term outlooks while constructively challenging assumptions, incremental changes and unapproved funding requests.
• Deliver deep performance and cost analysis, monitoring operational and functional results against forecasts, identifying trends, risks and opportunities for improvement and optimisation.
• Support smarter investment and pricing decisions, through high-quality financial modelling, cost–benefit analysis and contribution to robust business cases and benefits measurement.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders, including Treasury and corporate finance, to navigate governance requirements and enable successful investment outcomes.
• Ensure strong financial governance and compliance, applying effective controls, risk management and meeting all statutory and regulatory reporting obligations.
• Drive continuous improvement through technology and innovation, streamlining processes, enhancing insights and lifting the strategic impact of the finance function.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Strong experience in finance business partnering, with solid capability across financial analysis, performance reporting and complex budgeting in large organisations.
• A proven ability to drive commercial outcomes, improving both revenue and cost performance through practical insights and decision support.
• Sharp business acumen and analytical skills, with experience using modern financial systems and best-practice reporting standards.
• A naturally curious, detail-focused mindset, able to assess information critically and confidently in a fast-paced environment.
• Sound judgement and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and support quality decision-making.
• Clear, engaging communication skills, able to turn financial data into meaningful messages for diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• Professional accounting qualification (CA, CPA or CIMA).

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.

• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 6 February 2026

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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