A leading industrial distribution and services business is looking for a Finance Business Partner to embed directly within a divisional leadership team in Newcastle.

About the Role

Reporting into the Senior Finance Commercial Manager, the key responsibilities include:

- Acting as the primary finance contact for the division, sitting inside the leadership team rather than reporting in from a distance
- Participating in divisional leadership meetings and bringing financial insight directly into operational decisions
- Building genuine relationships with non-finance leaders and helping them understand what's really driving performance
- Digging into where margin is being won or lost — whether it's rework, mispricing, or inefficiency
- Building and refining pricing models, including labour cost recovery and machinery/overhead recovery
- Supporting the sales team with pricing decisions in real time, not after the fact
- Designing the metrics and lead indicators that tell the business where it's tracking mid-month, not just at month-end
- Briefing the data/BI team on dashboard requirements (you won't need to build them yourself — just know what "good" looks like)
- Turning reporting into something leadership actually uses to make calls, not just a pack that gets filed




- Supporting the annual budget and rolling forecast process at a divisional level
- Analysing variances between forecast and actual, and explaining the "why" behind the numbers
- Making sure divisional plans reflect what's actually happening on the ground, not just top-down assumptions
- Financial modelling and business case support for capital investments and operational initiatives
- Identifying margin improvement and cost efficiency opportunities across the division

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess:

- CA / CPA qualified preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills: confident engaging non-finance stakeholders
- Operational/commercial finance background (site-based, not purely corporate)
- Mining, industrials or manufacturing exposure highly regarded, not essential
- Comfortable being embedded on-site 4+ days a week

Why Apply

- P/E backed business with a great brand nationally
- Strong development plans
- Adaptable working arrangements
- Supportive, high-performing finance team
- Career progression and development opportunities
- Competitive salary and bonus structure

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📌 Finance Business Partner (New South Wales)
🏢 Sharp & Carter
📍 New South Wales