Job Description

Ready to turn numbers into powerful business decisions?

We have several Financial Analyst opportunities within Western Power to become a vital force behind our financial strategy. You'll dive deep into data, uncover insights, and shape forecasts that steer real commercial impact. If you're passionate about making financial performance clear, compelling, and commercially smart - this is your moment.

Your Role in Action

• Maintain and enhance core financial reports, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and timely delivery of insights.
• Develop robust budgets and long‑range forecasts that inform strategic planning and business decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to provide commercially focused advice that supports smarter, faster decisions.
• Analyse management results and key performance drivers to explain variances and identify actionable opportunities and understand the risks.
• Deliver end‑to‑end financial support, including forecasting, budgeting, ad hoc analysis, and financial modelling.
• Uphold the integrity and consistency of reporting processes, ensuring strong controls, clean data, and on-time delivery every time.
• Leverage detailed reporting frameworks to continuously assess, track, and improve financial performance across the business
• Identify efficiency and cost‑saving opportunities, automating reporting and improving processes where possible.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Experience in commercial finance, accounting, reporting, or financial analysis, with a clear focus on adding business value.
• Data storyteller - you don’t just crunch numbers; you translate them into clear, compelling business insights.
• Skilled at simplifying the complex - your written work makes financial concepts easy for everyone to understand.
• Analytically sharp - you gather insights from multiple sources and turn them into confident, evidence-based decisions.
• A natural relationship builder - you connect with others, earn trust, and collaborate with ease across all levels.
• Strong communicator and listener - you know when to speak up, when to listen, and how to make your message land.

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 5 October 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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