Specialist Controllership

Finance and Accounting Services 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 Advisor – Finance & Accounting Services (FAS) to partner with the Rio Tinto Aluminium (Bauxite & Alumina) Business Unit.

Reporting to the Senior Advisor 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 and analysis in accordance with IFRS and Rio Tinto policies.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Controllership primary point of contact for Refinery operations.
• Identify site-based accounting issues, make connections between financial information and business activities, investigate accounting issues including quantification of the impact and preparation of a summary of findings for review by the Senior Advisor and Manager.
• Preparation of monthly reports and analysis, including but not limited to site submission reports, GM operations reports, Net Earnings Variance Analysis (NEVA) reports.
• Review and analyse financial information for refinery operations including non-managed Joint Venture.
• Preparation of inventory obsolescence provision review, capital spares review, inventory standard price review on a half-yearly basis.
• Support with half-year and year-end group reporting deliverables, including but not limited to analytical reviews, disclosures submissions and management sign-off packs.
• Review of Capital Expenditure Application’s (CEA) and supply contracts to determine accounting implications.
• Assist with the annual statutory audit process, including review of general purpose statutory financial statements and assisting with the external audits.
• Support the Controllership function to standardise and optimise its processes.
• Assisting with ad-hoc requests.

What you’ll bring

• To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Accounting certification (CA, CPA or equivalent) or in progress.
• Knowledge and experience in refinery processes and tolling operations would be highly desirable.
• Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and working knowledge of SAP would be highly desirable.
• Excellent team player, ability to multitask and committed to delivering on-time and quality work under time pressure.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; Proactive and the ability to work independently.
• Continuous improvement mindset to simplify, standardise and automate processes and reporting.
• Experience working with and influencing external auditors or Big 4 audit experience will be considered positively.

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 2 November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).