Finance Business Partner - Functions

Finance Business Partner – Functions

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• 18 – 24-month fixed term contract or Secondment opportunity – Brisbane

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner - Business & Technology to support Functions senior leaders and their leadership teams. The role requires strong analytical support and a sophisticated ability to influence and drive change. The breadth and level of the critical relationships requires deep experience and capability. 

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional with the passion and desire to drive the financial planning and support the performance of a large business, with proven engagement and influence skills and highly demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and planning processes and to identify opportunities and deliver results. 

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.

In this role, you will:

• Be a part of a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance, providing decision and execution support to leaders across the portfolio
• Partner with stakeholders to proactively drive financial analysis and cost discipline and influence outcomes through providing a decision framework supported by insightful and accurate analysis
• Build rapport with a variety of senior stakeholders across Functions and Group Finance including and not limited to Controllership, Treasury, Tax and Risk
• Lead the development of rigorous planning and drive improved business performance through highly effective forward plans
• Provide senior management with relevant, detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis, studies and counsel to influence and shape financial strategy, analysis and market insight
• Understand performance to identify improvement opportunities, and support the business in developing high value initiatives to optimize business outcomes
• Drive process optimization across the FBP team, fostering a continuous improvement mindset, leveraging available technologies
• Identify areas for growth & development for the team and support development of training/opportunities to close these gaps
• Ensure governance and compliance through effective application of financial controls and risk management

About you

You will strongly exhibit Rio Tinto’s values, and strive for continuous improvement and excellence, helping establish new benchmarks for a finance team’s contribution to business success coupled with:

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification MBA, ACA, CPA
• Demonstrated finance experience within a complex global organisation
• A team player with excellent communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels
• Analytical and forward-thinking competencies
• Ability to solve complex problems where precedence may not exist
• Genuine curiosity for understanding detailed business performance and using that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives, continuous improvement, value creation with evidence of identifying and mitigating risks
• Strong background of influencing and working with diverse teams in matrix model
• Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance and presentation toolkits (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.) and an aptitude for identifying technology-based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance

What we offerCome join our team and enjoy some great benefits:

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Career development to further your ambitions
• Competitive salary package
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support
• Exciting multicultural working environment

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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 workingThe Business & Technology Support FBP team reports through to the Group CFO and supports Development & Technology and Central Functions including IS&T, Finance, Legal, Governance, Communications & External Affairs, Human Resources, CEO Australia. 

With a breadth of scope that covers exploration, project development and technical excellence, mergers & acquisition, business development through to closure; and all the functions that are necessary to run our business. You will be working closely with your direct manager in Brisbane and remotely with the rest of the FBP team and your stakeholders (based in multiple locations with concentrations in Brisbane, Perth & Montreal hubs). 

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 the 13^th March 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)