Senior Manager, Finance Business Partnering

Senior Manager, Finance Business Partnering

• Take on a key leadership role, providing financial guidance and business partnering to drive performance and profitability at a world-class aluminum smelter and hydro-power facilities.
• Work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to shape business strategies, optimize cost structures, and deliver actionable insights that support operational excellence
• This permanent, full-time, role is based in Kitimat, BC. The perfect place to live and work, combining the tranquility of a small community with an unrivaled love for the great outdoors.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead the Finance Business Partnering team in Kitimat, BC, where you’ll play a critical role in supporting the success of our BC Works Operations, which generate over $1B in revenue from the Kitimat aluminum smelter, casthouse, port operations, and the Kemano hydro-power facilities. This role bridges business and finance strategy to drive performance and create value within our Aluminum group.

This role is a great opportunity for a strategic and influential finance professional, passionate about leadership, to lead a team of finance professionals.

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 Aluminium Atlantic, and working a Monday to Friday schedule, you will be collaborating closely with the General Manager BC Works Operations as a key member of the senior leadership team:

• Driving the performance, growth, and strategic success of our operations to achieve long-term objectives.
• Guiding the financial performance of the organization through decision analysis, advice, identification of initiatives, and delivery support.
• Leading and developing a diverse and high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance.
• Developing financial understanding, acumen, and ownership throughout BC Works to embed performance in the business culture and drive a step change in cost discipline and leadership.
• Supporting strong business cases and a strong capital allocation framework.
• Building strong rapport and partnership with a variety of stakeholders including Controllership, Business Analysis, Technical, Integrated Operations, Procurement, Sales & Marketing, Communications, Human Resources, Business Improvement; and the Product Group finance team.
• Leading rigorous weekly, monthly and quarterly planning and forecasting processes and supporting improved business performance through ensuring highly effective forward plans.
• Providing detailed financial analysis and advice to influence financial strategy, planning and decision making
• Developing financial communication materials for internal and external stakeholders
• Leveraging technology to provide insightful advice and identify new improvement opportunities, across the business and finance activities
• Ensuring governance and compliance through effective application of financial controls and risk management
• Focusing on value creation across the value chain, embedding Rio Tinto Safe Production Systems

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a finance related field with CPA, MBA, ACA, CFA; other operations related degrees (e.g. engineering) also considered valuable.
• At least fifteen years of finance experience, including in leadership roles within a multi-national company environment
• Influential leadership and the ability to coach, develop, engage and bring out the best across large teams and stakeholder base
• Advanced problem solving, strategy, negotiation, presentation and influence capabilities
• Deep curiosity for understanding detailed business performance, and ability to use that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives
• A team player with excellent communication and engagement skills at all levels
• Inclusivity in the context of the regional culture and diversity
• Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance, and presentation toolkits and an aptitude for identifying technology-based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement
• A commitment to excellence, personal growth, and continuous improvement
• Highly demonstrated ability to lead insightful and well organized financial analysis and planning processes to identify opportunities, develop business plans and, ultimately, deliver results

Please note: Fly-in-fly-out arrangements are not available, but we do offer domestic or international relocation assistance to help you settle in and thrive.

Join our team and become an integral part of our vibrant community.

Applications close on Thursday the 20th of March 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

The base salary range for this role is $176,800 – $265,200 CAD in addition to allowances, bonus, equity, health or retirement benefits, and any other discretionary benefits offered at Rio Tinto. Our base salary ranges are based on role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by the skills, experience, and impact you bring to the role. Our talent acquisition partners can share more during the hiring process.

At Rio Tinto, we offer a competitive reward package that reflects the value that each person brings to our business. As part of our pay philosophy, we believe equity represents fairness, and is rooted in our values and aligns with what we stand for.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic and international relocation program

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for 70 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI    

Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company recognized one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year (for more information, click here: Rio Tinto Top Employer 2025) and one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for Young People (for more information, click here: Rio Tinto Top Employer for young people.

À propos de Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto est un chef de file mondial du secteur des sociétés minières et des matériaux. Nous sommes établis dans 35 pays où nous produisons du minerai de fer, du cuivre, de l’aluminium, des minéraux critiques et d’autres matériaux nécessaires à la transition énergétique mondiale et à la prospérité des personnes, des communautés et des nations. 

Nous exerçons nos activités depuis 150 ans, en nous appuyant sur les connaissances accumulées au fil des générations et sur les différents continents. Notre mission – trouver de meilleures façons de fournir les matériaux dont le monde a besoin – nous guide dans notre quête d’innovation et d’amélioration continue, dans le but de fabriquer des produits à faibles émissions et répondant aux bonnes normes environnementales, sociales et de gouvernance. Mais comme nous ne pouvons pas y arriver seuls, nous nous attachons à créer des partenariats nous permettant de résoudre des problèmes, de créer des situations mutuellement avantageuses et de saisir des occasions.

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 situations and meet opportunities.

Chaque voix compte

Nous sommes déterminés à créer un milieu inclusif où les employés se sentent à l’aise d’être eux-mêmes. Nous souhaitons de plus que chacun ait l’impression que sa voix compte, que toutes les cultures sont respectées et que les points de vue, aussi variés soient-ils, sont non seulement bienvenus, mais également essentiels à notre succès. Nous nous traitons mutuellement avec équité et dignité, sans égard à la race, au genre, à la nationalité, à l’origine ethnique, à la religion, à l’âge, à l’orientation sexuelle ou à tout autre aspect distinctif.

Chez Rio Tinto, nous accueillons favorablement et encourageons les candidatures d’Autochtones, de femmes, de membres de la communauté LGBTQ2S+, de travailleurs âgés, de personnes handicapées et de représentants d’origines diverses.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.