Senior Advisor Controllership

Finance and Accounting Services Senior Advisor 

• Build your career with a global organisation who values development
• We offer competitive compensation, paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements.
• Permanent fulltime | Perth based | 5:2 roster

About the role

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

We are seeking a passionate and engaging Senior Advisor – Finance & Accounting Services (FAS) to partner with the Rio Tinto Aluminium (Pacific Smelters) Business Unit.

Reporting to the Manager Controllership FAS you will work in collaboration with the Closing & Reporting teams and Finance Business Partners (FBP), where you will be responsible for the provision of timely and accurate financial statements, management reporting and analysis in accordance with IFRS and Rio Tinto policies.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Prepare reporting and provide analysis of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial results that will serve for external and management purposes.
• Providing technical accounting and financial advisory support in relation to RTA Pacific Operations Smelters.
• Preparing papers on accounting and reporting treatment of RTA Pacific Operations transactions.
• Ensure compliance with adequate internal controls, SOX standard and Rio Tinto’s accounting policies.
• Partner with various operational, commercial and support teams to enhance financial services provided to the BU.
• Capital expenditure applications accounting review.
• Support the Controllership function to standardise and optimise its processes.
• Provide the required information for internal and external audits.

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with strong technical accounting skills.
• Accounting certification (CA, CPA or equivalent).
• Advanced Excel skills, working knowledge of SAP / BW and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) skills would be highly desirable.
• Management reporting capability with a mindset to simplify and standardise reporting.
• Ability to make connections between financial information and business activities to provide insightful analysis.
• Very good business acumen, proactive nature and the ability to interact and collaborate effectively with colleagues.
• Experience writing accounting papers is desirable, not essential.
• Knowledge and experience in the mining sector and/or refining process as well as experience working with external auditors or Big 4 audit experience 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.
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements.
• 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).
• Relocation packages where suitable.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a 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.

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 16 September2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).