Future Finance, Business Analyst

• Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent flexible working environment where people are valued and respected
• Be part of a project team implementing SAP Central Finance (cFIN)
• 12-month fixed term contract based in Brisbane or Perth

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Business Analyst – Group Service with experience in mining to join our cFIN project supporting the Group Services (GS) team for a 12-month project role. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing business requirements, ensuring quality assurance of solutions through unit and integration testing, and delivering high-quality results.

You will be part of a project team working closely with our Systems Integrator (SI) ensuring effective collaboration with key stakeholders in GS, Consolidations, Tax, Reporting, and IS&T teams and demonstrate effective management of multiple stakeholder groups. Responsible for effective requirements gathering you will be key to understanding business priorities and effective delivery of business value. The role will support GS in analysis, outlining business problems, opportunities and documenting future state business processes.

This role is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to work with multi-disciplinary teams. and managing effective business relationships, influence and develop sound business requirements while supporting governance of solutions delivered.

Reporting to the Future Finance – Central FinanceProduct Owner and working in a collaborative and supportive project team on the Future Finance Project (FFP) - cFIN, you will:

• Work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document business requirements and ensuring that solutions meet business needs.
• Collaborate with the Solution Architecture team to facilitate collaboration between business and IT, providing guidance on how to prioritise features and functions based on business needs.
• Facilitating the gap analysis / change impact of current state and future state business processes.
• Document and maintain project-related artifacts such as requirements, data mapping requirements, test plans, test cases, test results, and data reconciliation.
• Ensure that solutions are tested thoroughly through unit and integration testing, identifying, and resolving any issues that arise.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and execute test plans and test cases to ensure successful implementation of cFIN.
• Analyse test results and provide recommendations for improvements to the development team.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure that project objectives are met and provide updates on project progress.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies and quality standards.
• Demonstrate experience in using the Scaled Agile framework, preferred but not essential.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Relevant experience in a similar role and working on a large global project.
• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst.
• Experience on similar global programs with relevant SAP FI CO experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to facilitate business requirements with IT.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience working in a mining industry is preferred.
• Experience with requirements management tools and software testing tools is a plus.
• Experience with business process mapping tools e.g. ADONIS
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results within tight deadlines.
• Experience in a product and capability-based environment, and a familiarity with Agile ways of working - ideally within an asset intensive industry such as Mining
• Lean Six Sigma and Agile Certification an advantage.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your 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
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees & 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)
• Domestic re-location if required

Where you will be working

The cFIN Project is part of a broader Future Finance Platform transformation program that is changing the way the Finance function at Rio Tinto operates. Finance’s vision for the function is to become a proud and engaged global finance team with a transformed capability that drives improved business performance and strategic insights, enabled by technology.

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 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

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 29 May 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.