Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner | Mines

• Critical member of the Finance team
• Work closely with functional lead teams to improve performance and create value
• Progress your career, think ahead and be as creative as you like
• FIFO | 5:2:4:3 | Hope Downs

About the role

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

We are recruiting a Finance Business Partner, who will help shape the future of Finance within Rio Tinto. You will be responsible for providing financial and commercial advice to Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s Mines portfolio. We are looking for an enthusiastic problem solver who enjoys a challenge and is uncomfortable with the status quo.

Finance Business Partnership | Mines

Reporting to the Manager Finance Business Partner – Mines , you will be responsible for:

• Partnering: Partner with a customer-centric mindset to help teams we support make better decisions, improve business performance, and increase the value of their business.
• Coaching:Coach key stakeholders to build business and commercial acumen to improve cash management (across all funding sources).
• Analysis:Deliver insightful outputs and recommendations to support business performance, including monthly reporting.
• Continued Improvement:Identify and implement opportunities for improvement initiatives with the Finance team.
• Planning & forecasting:Deliver the annual plan and support strategic initiatives for the teams supported.
• Development:Contribute to the coaching and development of analysts within the team.

What you'll bring

• Strong commercial skills
• Hunger to learn and continuously grow
• A desire to drive change, improve what we do, and use technology to solve problems
• Deep curiosity for understanding drivers of business performance and ability to simplify complexity into actionable insights and communicate them clearly
• Successfully communicate recommendations and win customers buy-in, both verbally and via presentation tools
• Background in finance, management consulting or engineering (but not mandatory)

Where you'll be working

This role is primarily based in the Pilbara, at our Hope Downs 1 and 4 mine sites.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700-kilometre rail network 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.

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 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 9 September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).