Principal Advisor – Future Finance Business Partner

Principal Advisor – Future Finance Business Partner

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Secondment and/or Fixed Term opportunity 12 to 18 months - Brisbane location
• Play a key role in the Future Finance Platform transformation program

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Business Partner with experience in financial systems and processes to join our Future Finance Platform project team. You will play a critical role in the project team supporting data reconciliation and reporting activities. 

This is a great opportunity to form part of a dynamic cross-finance and IS&T team to create a future finance platform to achieve significant process and well-being improvements across all our finance processes.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 Future Finance – Central Finance Product Owner and working in a collaborative community within Future Finance & Functions, you will be:

• Working closely with our Systems Integrator (SI) to ensure effective collaboration with key stakeholders across Product Groups, Group Finance and IS&T Functions
• Coordinating the data validation and reconciliation as part of the migration process, reconciling and documenting discrepancies, identifying anomalies, and ensuring data consistency between the finance platforms
• Responsible for identifying management reports impacted by the project with the objective of designing an improved common set of reports to meet all core requirements and reduce the number of spreadsheet, and manual workarounds while adhering to best practices
• Facilitating the transformation activities, supporting user training on new reports and conversion activities that will eliminate or reduce the number of spreadsheets being used

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Knowledge of Rio Tinto systems, including SAP and HFM and processes, including Consolidation, Tax, Close & Reporting and Intercompany
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills to identify and evaluate opportunities and risks
• Good understanding of Rio Tinto’s financial reporting requirements and required metrics 
• Strong understanding of data migration concepts, methodologies, and tools 
• Proficiency in data analysis, transformation, and reconciliation techniques
• Familiarity with data cleansing, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), and data integration processes
• Open to challenge the status quo and a new way of working 

Come 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

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 Thursday 31^st August 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)