Advisor, Treasury Accounting

Treasury Accounting Advisor

• Provide treasury accounting services to global stakeholders
• We offer competitive compensation, paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements.
• Permanent fulltime | Perth based 

About the role

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

We are seeking a motivated and inspired Treasury Accounting Specialist to join Rio Tinto’s Group Services function.

Reporting to the Manager Treasury Accounting you will be responsible for the internal and external accounting and reporting requirements pertaining to Rio Tinto’s primary treasury entities and related Holding companies.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of the month end financial statements in SAP and in Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) for Rio Tinto’s primary treasury entities and related Holding companies.
• Analysing financial statements in HFM to ensure output is compliant for stakeholders.
• Become an SME in the Quantum treasury software & management system and collaborate with Global Treasury for issue resolution.
• Applying hedge accounting to debt financial instruments.
• Preparing support and reconciliations with the objective of maintaining the integrity of the accounts and controls within those accounts including liaison with Internal/External Auditors to ensure a fully compliant environment
• Provide accounting support to treasury projects.
• Preparing statutory financial statements and financial reports.

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or Finance with CPA or CA qualifications.
• 5 years of experience in a similar role within a large multi-national, multi-currency organization
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with a good understanding of IFRS, with a focus on accounting and reporting of financial assets and financial liabilities
• Experience with SAP and HFM (highly desirable) and a high level of proficiency across the MS Office suite
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including variance analysis capabilities
• Treasury experience, especially with Quantum Treasury System and Treasury operations, is preferred.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines in a high pressure, multi team, multi time-zone environment
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and a continuous improvement mindset

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 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)
• Relocation packages where suitable

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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.

Applications close on 27th May 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)