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Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Conakry, Conakry, Guinea
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 1, 2022

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Category
Accounting, Executive
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner
  • Key leadership role supporting the Simandou mega-Project
  • Make your mark setting up our new, world class iron ore mine
  • Be part of a diverse, agile and talented team of experts with an active caring culture and strong teamwork
  • Role based in Guinea

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner, who will provide financial transparency and insights to the business, and support decision making, whilst challenging business and functional plans with objective analysis. You will have overall accountability to consolidate and support business plan preparation on behalf of the project, including coordinating approval of the annual budget with the JV partner.

Reporting to the CFO and working in a diverse team you will be:

Reporting:
  • Responsible for coordinating site planning, forecasting and reporting and analysis of actual results, including IC budget.
  • Preparation of Finance PMO report and other project reporting requirements.

Internal control, governance, and process development and improvement:
  • Partner with stakeholders to proactively drive financial analysis, cost discipline/control, support business leaders through planning processes and influence outcomes through providing a decision framework supported by insightful and accurate analysis,
  • WBS set-up for project work packages (work closely with RT Projects and Fixed Asset teams).
  • Identify financial opportunities and influence outcomes to enhance the performance of the business. Supporting the development of an improvement mindset.

JV activities:
  • Coordinate approval of the annual budget with the JV partner.
  • Cash call preparation until transition to future state model.
  • Improve governance model for critical finance processes with JV partners (budget approval and cash calls), to enable cash calls to be issued more frequently in advance.

Other activities
  • Develop finance capabilities and acumen within the business and ensuring fit for purpose system, processes, metrics and reporting.
  • Support development of RTBS roadmap and business case to define finance pathway to on-box (approach, modules, timing, and costs), training and go-live support requirements
  • Lead, coach and develop the finance team members at Simandou. For Finance Business Partner team help coach and develop team members improving skillsets and effectiveness and ensure working collaboratively with the broader FBP Leadership team across B&TS

Set-up activities:
  • Assist with capability and skills gap assessment, requirements, and training to transition to future state model activities.
  • Implement actions/controls identified from Finance risk & controls initial gap analysis, and support transition to future state model.
  • Support development of the procurement solution during study phase including preferred contracting entity.
  • Define and facilitate discussion to reach/approve agreement to recharge owners costs and group recharges (eg, SOW, SLA or similar arrangement) between Rio Tinto Guinea and broader Rio Tinto entities.
  • Assess Group support model (eg, IS&T, legal, treasury, sales & marketing).

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will have:
  • Relevant project accounting experience or knowledge
  • Proven engagement and collaboration skills
  • Demonstrated ability to positively influence and engage with a diverse range of stakeholder groups to set the financial context, and to navigate and solve complex financial situations
  • A proactive nature, well organised, and the ability to work independently
  • Relevant experience in leading insightful financial analysis and planning processes to identify opportunities, develop business plans and ultimately deliver results
  • Genuine curiosity for understanding detailed business performance, and using that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives
  • Tertiary qualification in business, accounting, commerce, or related discipline
  • French and or Mandarin Languages is an advantage

Key stakeholders:
  • Simandou in-country finance and commercial teams
  • Project delivery and project controls team
  • Manager Corporate Finance
  • B&TS GM FBP, B&TSBA team and Copper BA team
  • Finance Accounting Services team, RT Projects and studies team
  • Multiple functional areas, including legal, procurement, IS&T, treasury, Group services, and Controllership
  • JV partner

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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
  • Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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'll be working

The project is owned by Simfer S.A. which is a joint venture owned by Rio Tinto (45.05%), Chinalco (39.95%) and the Government of Guinea (15%). Rio Tinto is the nominated operator of the Simandou ore block 3 and 4. Blocks 3 an 4 in the Simandou ranges represent one of the most significant untapped, high grade iron ore deposits today, with an indicated resource in excess of 1.7Bt.

The mine will create several thousand direct and indirect jobs, with an economic value of several billion dollars over the estimated mine life. Simandou will also serve as an engine for economic growth, and use best practices to create a safe, sustainable, and environmentally friendly operation. The iron ore from the mine will be used to produce vital products that modern society depends upon, such as electric vehicles, renewable energy infrastructure, buildings and bridges.

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.

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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