Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner | Mines

• Progress your career within a global organisation with access to extensive employee benefits
• Enjoy sought after lifestyle of a 9 day fortnight and living in scenic Pilbara region
• Residential | 5:2:4:3 | Pannawonica

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

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 seeking 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.

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 and experience
• Confident with negotiation and influencing senior leaders and stakeholders whist upholding Rio Tinto’s core values and philosophies
• Strong analytical ability focused on value creation, risk assessment and operational performance improvement
• Ability to use technology to solve problems and improve processes and systems. SAP and Excel an advantage
• Strong understanding of the link between business drivers and performance
• Ability to simplify and convey complexity into actionable insights
• A background in finance, management consulting or engineering
• Ability to work autonomously in a diverse and fast-paced environment
• A tertiary qualification in Finance, Engineering or a Business/Analytical related discipline – desirable

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

Where you'll be working

Located in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, the vibrant town of Pannawonica offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing.

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. From the popular annual rodeo event to other regular social and cultural activities, local residents can make the most of modern amenities.

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for almost 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters 

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 6th October 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)