Are you passionate about using financial insights to influence business performance and strategic decision-making? The Business and Performance branch are seeking an additional Planning & Analysis Business Partner. As our Planning & Analysis Business Partner, you'll be a trusted advisor to leaders across the organisation, helping turn data into meaningful actions that drive performance, improve outcomes and create long-term value. Working at the intersection of finance, strategy and operational performance, you'll provide commercial insights, financial modelling, forecasting and business partnering support that helps shape key decisions across Unitywater. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with senior leaders, influence investment and planning outcomes, and play a key role in supporting one of Australia's fastest-growing regions.
In this role, you'll:
- Partner with business leaders and executives, providing strategic financial advice and insights that support informed decision-making and business performance.
- Deliver meaningful planning, budgeting and forecasting outcomes, ensuring financial plans align with operational priorities and strategic objectives.
- Develop sophisticated financial models and scenario analysis, helping evaluate investment decisions, quantify risks and identify opportunities for value creation.
- Drive performance improvement initiatives, leveraging financial, operational and industry data to identify trends, opportunities and actionable recommendations.
- Build trusted relationships across the business, influencing decisions, enhancing financial capability and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
Our One Unitywater behaviours - Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:
Must have
- CA or CPA qualification.
- Experience in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and performance analysis within a complex business environment.
- Experience developing and applying driver-based forecasts that link operational activities and key business drivers to financial outcomes.
- Strong financial modelling capability, including scenario analysis, investment evaluation and long-range forecasting.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to transform data into meaningful commercial insights and recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and business partnering skills, with the ability to influence decisions and build trusted relationships with leaders across the organisation.
- Experience using financial and business intelligence platforms such as Power BI, TM1, Adaptive Insights, SAP, Oracle or similar tools.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to present complex financial information clearly to senior and executive audiences.
- Experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering or enterprise performance environments.
- Experience supporting business cases, investment decisions or strategic planning initiatives.
- Experience working with enterprise performance frameworks, KPIs and operational performance metrics.
- Experience coaching or mentoring team members and supporting capability uplift initiatives.
- Experience providing business partnering and strategic advice within utilities, processing facilities, manufacturing or other asset-intensive corporate environments.
Working at Unitywater:
- Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays. Tell us what this looks like for you!
- Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
- Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, and access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
- Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
We think a pretty good job starts here.
How to apply:
Apply online following the links, and make sure to upload your up-to-date CV.
We strive to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role. Please feel free to share your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you’re successful we will need you to undergo a few checks…. We know they might not be the fun part, but you will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks, including verification of criminal history, drivers licence and driving history, alcohol and other drug screening.
Applications close: COB Friday 20th November 2027
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at careers@unitywater.com
If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist emma.guest@unitywater.com
Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people.