Finance Business Partner

Rio Tinto
US
Competitive
Jan 23, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
29342718
Accounting, Executive
Permanent
Full Time
English
Finance Business Partner, Rio Tinto Kennecott

· Key finance leadership role in a diverse and global organization;

· Strong financial and commercial acumen, with proven track record of leadership excellence and delivery of financial results within a large organization;

· Demonstrated ability to engage and influence to plan and drive business performance;

· Role based in Salt Lake City, Utah

About the role

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

We are looking for a strong and experienced finance leader to lead the finance business partnership team in Salt Lake City, Utah. The role is fundamental to connecting business and finance strategy and delivery to drive business performance and value at one of Rio Tinto's key assets.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

This role is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and influential finance professional with the passion and desire to play a key leadership role supporting the performance of a large mining and processing business. It needs (a) proven engagement and collaboration skills; (b) the ability to influence, help set financial context, and drive an inspiring business improvement narrative; (c) a highly demonstrated ability to lead insightful and well organized financial analysis and planning processes to identify opportunities, develop business plans and, ultimately, deliver results; (d) proven ability to lead and develop a strong, capable and highly engaged finance business partnership team.

Reporting to the GM- Finance and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:
  • Lead a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance
  • Strongly exhibit Rio Tinto's values, and strive for continuous improvement and excellence
  • Establish new benchmarks for a finance team's contribution to business success
  • Partner closely with the Kennecott Managing Director and as an influential member of the Senior Leadership Team to provide decision analysis, advice, and holistic finance support
  • Understand performance to identify improvement opportunities, and help develop high value initiatives to optimize business outcomes
  • Develop financial understanding and acumen throughout Kennecott, and drive a step change in cost discipline and leadership
  • Oversee critical commercial activity relating to Kennecott's land, water and other assets portfolio
  • Build strong rapport and partnership with a variety of stakeholders including Controllership, Technical, Integrated Planning, Procurement, Commercial/Sales & Marketing, Business Improvement; and the Product Group finance team
  • Lead rigorous weekly, monthly and quarterly planning and forecasting processes and support improved business performance through ensuring highly effective forward plans
  • Provide the Kennecott and Copper and Diamonds senior leadership with relevant, detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis, and provide advice to influence and shape financial strategy and planning and decision making
  • Leverage technology to provide insightful advice and identify new improvement opportunities, and improve processes within the team and business
  • Ensure governance and compliance through effective application of financial controls and risk management

What you'll bring

To be successfully considered for this role we are looking for:
  • Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Engineering, or an equivalent analytically focused field, and ideally a relevant postgraduate qualification
  • CA or CPA designation preferred
  • 10-15+ years of finance experience, including in leadership roles within a multi-national company environment
  • An influential leader able to coach, develop, engage and bring out the best in a team
  • Strong problem solving, strategic, negotiation, presentation and influence capabilities
  • Deep curiosity for understanding detailed business performance, and ability to use that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives
  • A team player with excellent communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels
  • Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance and presentation toolkits and an aptitude for identifying technology-based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement
  • Highly refined time management and personal organizational skills
  • A demonstrated dedication to excellence and continuous improvement, and personal growth

What we offer
  • Be recognized 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.

Every Voice Matters

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

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information.

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.