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Senior Advisor - Finance

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Perth, WA, AU
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Sep 25, 2021

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Category
Accounting
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Senior Advisor, Finance Business Partner Business & Technology Support APAC West
  • Be part of a group that is safety & results driven, while valuing inclusion:
  • Key leadership role for Business & Technology Support FBP organization in APAC West
  • Permanent employment, based in Perth

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Business & Technology Support Finance Business Partner to support the Safety, Technical & Projects (STP), Strategy & Development (S&D) and Functions leaders and their leadership teams. The role requires strong analytical support and a sophisticated ability to influence and drive change. The breadth and level of the critical relationships requires deep experience and capability.

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional with the passion and desire to drive the financial planning and support the performance of a large business, with proven engagement and influence skills and highly demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and planning processes and to identify opportunities and deliver results.

In this role, you will:
  • Be a part of a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance:
  • Strongly exhibit Rio Tinto's values, and strive for continuous improvement and excellence, helping establish new benchmarks for a finance team's contribution to business success
  • Partner with stakeholders to proactively drive financial analysis and cost discipline and influence outcomes through providing a decision framework supported by insightful and accurate analysis.
  • Build rapport with a variety of stakeholders across the STP, S&D and Functions with a strong focus on RT Projects, IS&T and the S&D portfolio (excluding Exploration & Closure) and across Finance including Controllership, Treasury, Tax and Risk
  • Lead the development of rigorous planning and drive improved business performance through highly effective forward plans
  • Develop financial understanding and drive a step change in cost discipline and leadership across the cost centre owners in the areas you support
  • Provide business (including senior management) with relevant, detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis, studies and counsel to influence and shape financial strategy, analysis and market insight

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
  • Bachelor and/or professional qualification MBA, ACA, CPA
  • Be an experienced finance professional with prior experience within a complex global organisation
  • A team player with strong communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels
  • Analytical and forward thinking competencies
  • Genuine curiosity and continuous improvement mindset focused on solving problems and value creation with evidence of identifying and mitigating risks
  • Strong background of influencing and working with diverse teams in matrix model
  • Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance and presentation toolkits (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.) and an aptitude for identifying technology based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement
  • Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Ability to communicate in both English and French
  • Experience working within support environments and understanding the processes, risks and challenges of support groups

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
  • A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
  • Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
  • Attractive share ownership plan
  • Company provided insurance cover
  • Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
  • Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
  • Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
  • Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
  • Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
  • Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter.

Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

The Business & Technology Support FBP team reports through to the Group CFO and supports Safety, Technical & Projects, Strategy & Development and Central Functions including IS&T, Corporate Affairs, Finance and Human Resources. With a breadth of scope that covers exploration, project development and technical excellence, mergers & acquisition, business development through to closure; and all the functions that are necessary to run our business. You will be working closely with your direct manager in APAC West Hub and remotely with the rest of the FBP team (based in multiple locations with concentrations in Brisbane & Montreal hubs).

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And we want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
Website
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
London
SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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