Senior Advisor - Planning & Corporate

Senior Advisor - Planning & Corporate

• Role based in Brisbane
• 18-month fixed term contract / secondment
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor - Planning & Corporate,to support the Functions senior leaders and their leadership teams. The role requires strong analytical support and a sophisticated ability to influence and drive change. The breadth and level of the critical relationships requires deep experience and capability. 

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional with the passion and desire to drive the financial planning and support the performance of a large business, with proven engagement and influence skills and highly demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and planning processes and to identify opportunities and deliver results. 

In this role, you will:

• Be a part of a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance:
• Strongly exhibit Rio Tinto’s values of Care, Courage and Curiosity, and strive for continuous improvement and excellence, helping establish new benchmarks for a finance team’s contribution to business success.
• Partner with stakeholders to proactively drive financial analysis and cost discipline and influence outcomes through providing a decision framework supported by insightful and accurate analysis.
• Build rapport with a variety of stakeholders across Functions and Group Finance including and not limited to Controllership, Treasury, Tax and Risk
• Lead the development of rigorous planning and drive improved business performance through highly effective forward plans.
• Develop financial understanding and drive a step change in cost discipline and leadership across the cost centre owners in the areas you support.
• Provide business (including senior management) with relevant, detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis, studies and counsel to influence and shape financial strategy, analysis and market insight.
• Understand performance to identify improvement opportunities and support the business in developing high value initiatives to optimize business outcomes.
• Leverage technology to provide insightful advice and identify new improvement opportunities and improve processes within the team and business.
• Ensure governance and compliance through effective application of financial controls and risk management.

What you will bring

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification MBA, ACA, CPA
• 5 years + finance experience within a complex global organisation
• A team player with strong communication, influence, and engagement skills at all levels
• Analytical and forward-thinking competencies
• Genuine curiosity and continuous improvement mindset focused on solving problems and value creation with evidence of identifying and mitigating risks
• Strong background of influencing and working with diverse teams in matrix model
• Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance and presentation toolkits (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.) and an aptitude for identifying technology-based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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 almost 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.

Where you will be working

The Business & Technology Support FBP team reports through to the Group CFO and supports Development & Technology and Central Functions including IS&T, Finance, Legal, Governance, Communications & External Affairs, Human Resources, CEO Australia. With a breadth of scope that covers exploration, project development and technical excellence, mergers & acquisition, business development through to closure; and all the functions that are necessary to run our business. You will be working closely with your direct manager in Brisbane and remotely with the rest of the FBP team and your stakeholders (based in multiple locations with concentrations in Brisbane, Perth & Montreal hubs). 

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.