Finance Business Partner Team Leader – Permanent - Perth

Join Western Power as our Finance Business Partner Team Leader and lead a high-performing team of 9 finance professionals, including Financial Analysts and Senior Finance Business Partners, and play a key role in shaping commercial and financial outcomes across our organisation. You'll be a trusted adviser to senior leaders, providing strategic financial insight, driving financial discipline, and enabling informed investment and business decisions that deliver value for our customers and communities.

Your Role in Action

- Lead and develop a high-performing team of 9 Financial Analysts and Senior Finance Business Partners, fostering capability, performance and continuous improvement.

- Partner with business leaders to provide strategic financial and commercial advice that enables informed decision-making and drives business outcomes.

- Build trusted stakeholder relationships across Western Power, influencing key investment, operational and commercial decisions.

- Deliver end-to-end financial business partnering support across the value chain, ensuring alignment between strategy, planning and execution.

- Provide commercial insight and robust financial analysis to support business cases, investment decisions and strategic initiatives.

- Monitor portfolio, investment and operational performance, identifying opportunities to improve value, efficiency and financial outcomes.

- Lead initiatives to enhance financial processes, systems and standards, ensuring strong governance and alignment with accounting practices.

- Drive a culture of financial discipline and accountability,



empowering leaders through a self-service approach to financial management.

What Makes You a Excellent Fit

- Demonstrated leadership experience with a passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and fostering a positive, values-led culture.

- Extensive experience in financial analysis, management reporting or commercial finance, with the ability to translate complex data into clear business insights and recommendations.

- Strong commercial acumen and analytical capability, with experience influencing business decisions in a complex organisational environment.

- Proven ability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, streamline processes, and balance detailed analysis with broader strategic objectives.

- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence at all levels.

- Degree-qualified in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline, with CA or CPA qualifications highly regarded.

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:
- Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.

- 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 16 November 2026 Not actively looking right now? Join our Finance Talent Community to stay connected and be the first to hear about future opportunities across Western Power.

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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📌 Finance Business Partner Team Leader (Australia)
🏢 Western Power
📍 Australia