Financial Controller, Energy & Trading
- Rewarding, Multi-faceted Management Role
- Positive culture & collaborative environment
- Permanent Role | Essendon Fields – Melbourne-based
Ready to drive financial outcomes across the Energy & Trading business? Apply now!
Role Details:
As the Financial Controller, Energy & Trading, you will be dedicated to the financial ownership, analysis, and decision support to the Energy and Energy Trading function. The role is responsible for ensuring financial integrity, delivering high-quality forecasting and reporting, and translating complex trading and operational outcomes into clear financial insights.
What You’ll Do:
- Own end‑to‑end financial control for the Energy and Trading portfolio, ensuring accurate, timely reporting and strong P&L and balance sheet integrity with no material audit issues
- Deliver clear, insightful financial reporting and analysis across price, volume, hedging, and trading performance to support executive and Energy Committee decision‑making
- Lead budgeting and forecasting processes, developing robust models that improve forecast accuracy, transparency, and confidence in commercial assumptions
- Provide commercial and trading analysis across derivatives, gas and fuel positions, and structured transactions, translating market and trading outcomes into financial and business impact
- Act as a trusted finance business partner to Trading, Operations, Water, and Procurement, reducing reliance on senior leaders to explain financial outcomes
What You Will Bring:
- CA or CPA qualified
- 5–8+ years’ experience in commercial finance within trading, energy, utilities, or commodities environments
- Strong financial modelling and advanced analytical capability
- Proven experience managing complex P&L drivers, including price, volume, and hedging
- Sound understanding of derivatives and hedging instruments
- Proficiency in SAP
- Experience using Hyperion or similar performance management systems
- Exposure to energy, utilities, or commodities trading environments
- Experience working with shared services and/or offshore teams
- Highly motivated and results oriented
- Strong commercial judgement and decision‑making capability
- Ability to translate complex financial outcomes into clear, actionable insights
- High attention to detail with a strong focus on accuracy
- Confident stakeholder engagement across senior leadership levels
- Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic trading environment
What you’ll love when you join us:
Sustainability: Contribute to sustainability initiatives that make a difference.
Supportive Environment: Be part of a team that values safety, respect, and collaboration.
Career Growth: Opportunities for further training and career advancement within the company
Lifestyle balance: Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
About Visy
Visy is powering the circular economy, closing the loop between packaging, remanufacturing and recycling. Over 75 years, we've grown to 7,000 employees and 150 global operations – predominately in Australia and New Zealand.
We believe materials are not recycled until they’ve been made into new products. We collect and sort recyclable materials like paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and metals from households and businesses, and locally remanufacture them back into new, sustainable packaging. From cardboard boxes, water bottles and jam jars to food and beverage cans, we are using recycled content to power Australia and New Zealand’s food and beverage packaging industry.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now and be a key player in shaping our future!
You will be required to meet Visy’s employment criteria, which will include a criminal history check.
Visy is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.
