Finance Partnering Manager - Power

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Finance Partnering Manager - Power to join our Finance team on a permanent full-time basis.

Reporting to the Head of Energy Infrastructure Partnering, you will play a key role in driving financial strategy and performance by partnering with senior leaders across APA’s Power division, delivering critical insights, and leading a high-performing finance team to support strategic decision-making and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leadership to shape and deliver strategic financial plans that drive growth, optimise performance, and support long-term financial objectives

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes, ensuring alignment with business strategy and financial targets

• Deliver insightful financial analysis and reporting, translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders

• Identify financial risks and opportunities, driving initiatives to improve profitability, efficiency, and overall business performance

• Drive cost optimisation and high-performance initiatives, balancing efficiency with value creation in a complex operational environment

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance partnering team while building strong, trusted relationships with senior management within the business

Your Background

• Proven experience in finance business partnering, FP&A, or commercial finance within a complex, large-scale organisation

• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering capability uplift and strong engagement

• Track record of building and maintain senior stakeholder relationships and contributing to strategic decision-making

• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and analytical skills with a commercially focused mindset

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to deliver clear and compelling financial narratives

• Experience working with financial systems (e.g. Workday, Adaptive Planning, PowerBI or similar), ideally within infrastructure, energy, or capital-intensive industries

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity where you will play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategy, influencing key decisions, and leading finance business partnering  across the Power portfolio, covering existing assets and supporting a substantial growth portfolio.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.