Manager - Commercial Controllership

Manager – Commercial Controllership

• Great opportunity to work for a pioneering organisation at the forefront of mining
• Join a global network and diverse team where people are encouraged to offer unique perspectives and build knowledge and connections
• We offer competitive remuneration packages, paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements – Perth

About the role

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

We are looking for a Manager - Commercial Controllership to play an integral role in supporting senior management by providing timely and accurate financial statements, analysis and reports in accordance with the IFRS and Rio Tinto policies.

This dynamic team is responsible to deliver optimal controllership support to the Commercial product group ensuring that a high quality of all accounting, financial reporting, technical support and compliance services are delivered and maintained coupled with performance reporting and financial advisory services to the Commercial teams and supporting key finance projects.

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.

Reporting to the General Manager, Finance and Accounting Services, Southern Hemisphere, you will:

• Lead a team of 7 direct reports based in Perth and Montreal to create and deliver impactful performance reporting that will drive leadership decision making to deliver the value from Commercial;
• Co-ordinate, prepare and consolidate analysis of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial results that will serve for management and external reporting, and engage with key stakeholders across the Commercial teams to review the results;
• Provide technical advisory support in relation to new commercial initiatives that would include complex business arrangements;
• Ensure compliance with adequate internal controls, SOx standard and Rio Tinto’s accounting policies;
• Simultaneously manage complex projects, ad hoc requests and/or initiatives to/from various stakeholders;
• Lead and support the Commercial Finance initiatives to standardise and optimise its processes;
• Partner with operational Controllership teams to enhance financial services provided to the BUs;
• Provide the required information for internal and external audits;
• Solve complex problems and recommend solutions whilst promoting and contributing to process improvements.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, accounting certification CPA or equivalent;
• Experience in management and financial reporting;
• Demonstrated leadership experience fostering the Rio Tinto values: Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Solid interpersonal and communication skills with ability to interface with various stakeholders and across multiple regions and time-zones;
• Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), SAP and advanced Excel skills would be highly desirable;

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 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 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. 

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 Sunday 12^th December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).