Manager Finance Business Partners

Manager Finance Business Partners

• Key finance leadership role 
• Work closely with senior management to improve performance and create value
• Progress your career, think ahead and be as creative as you like
• Flexible and agile working - Central Park, Perth CBD

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are recruiting a Manager - Finance Business Partners, who will help shape the future of Finance within Rio Tinto. You will be responsible for leading a diverse team who provide financial and commercial advice to Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s supply chain and services portfolio (Rail, Ports, Utilities, Facilities). We are looking for an enthusiastic problem solver who enjoys challenges and is comfortable to challenge the status quo and present solutions that will help us work smarter each and every day.

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 Business Partner, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering: Partner with a broad range of Senior Leaders and operational teams to help them make better decisions, improve business performance, and increase the value of their business.
• Leading: Lead and develop a team of professionals and be a part of transforming the broader Finance Business Partner team.
• Coaching: Coach key stakeholders to build their business and commercial acumen to improve cash management (margin, operating costs and capital).
• Analysis: Improve the way we collect, analyse and present financial data to better understand the drivers of value.
• Managing performance: Lead the performance management cadence and produce insightful and actionable financial analysis on the performance of the business.
• Planning & forecasting: Lead the development of the annual plan for the division and support strategic initiatives.

What you'll bring

• Strong commercial skills
• Influential leadership and ability to coach, develop, engage and bring out the best in a team
• A talent for building strong relationships and influencing all parts of the business
• A desire to drive change, improve what we do, and use technology to solve problems
• An ability and interest in challenging ‘accepted’ operational processes and constraints to find more effective ways of operating.
• Deep curiosity for understanding drivers of business performance and ability to simplify complexity into actionable insights and communicate them clearly
• Extensive experience in finance, or similarly numerical field (accounting qualification not necessary)

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

Where you'll be working

This role is based in Perth, at our head office in Central Park, and working Monday to Friday. We want you to have a great work/life balance, so the days, hours, location of work are flexible (including working from home). You will be required to travel to the iron ore operations in the Pilbara.

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

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 the 28^th May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)