Analyst - Finance Business Partner

Analyst - Finance Business Partner – Joint Venture Management

• Critical member of the Finance, Joint Venture management team
• Work closely with key customers to improve performance and create value
• Progress your career, think ahead and be as creative as you like
• Flexible and agile working - Central Park, Perth CBD

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs

We are looking for an Analyst - Finance Business Partner – Joint Venture Management to support the Finance Business Partnering team. The Finance Business Partner team is responsible for the implementation of the Iron Ore strategy, driving transformation across our business, managing our joint venture arrangements, and providing financial and commercial advice through quality analysis and insights.

We are looking for an enthusiastic problem solver who enjoys a challenge, stakeholder engagement and is uncomfortable with the status quo.

Reporting to the Manager Joint Venture & Production – Finance Business Partnering, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering: Support the Joint Venture Management team to help the teams we support make sound decisions, improve business performance, and increase value.
• Analysis & Reporting: Deliver timely and robust analysis to inform key decisions on business performance. Support monthly, quarterly and annual Joint Venture reporting requirements, forecasting (including working capital and cash calls), and various other outputs (such as Joint Venture Participant meeting packs).
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities for standardisation, simplification, and improvement, including initiatives to ensure compliance with various Joint Venture and commercial agreements. Support the execution and delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Coaching: Build commercial acumen with key stakeholders and improve their understanding of financial implications of decision making.
• Planning & Forecasting: Support the Joint Venture Management team to build and deliver the annual Joint Venture plans.
• Assurance: Support audit, assurance and compliance requirements.

What you’ll bring

As a successful candidate, you will bring:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.

• An accounting qualification with strong commercial skills (including an ability to interpret complex, multi stakeholder agreements) and similar experience preferably in a mining or resources environment.
• An ability to engage, influence and form productive relationships spanning several layers in the organisation.
• System skills (including data analysis & pivot tables, SAP, data warehousing tools) plus a demonstrated ability and interest in challenging operational processes to find more effective ways of operating.
• Resilience with a hunger to learn and continuously grow.
• Attention to detail and ease at delivering high-quality analysis and accurate reporting.

What we offer

• 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’ll be working

This role is based in Perth, at our head office in Central Park, and working Monday to Friday. We want you to have a great work/life balance, so the days, hours and location of work are flexible (including working from home). You may be required to travel to the Pilbara to support our customers on an as required basis.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

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 Monday 23^rd January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).