Senior Advisor FBP Functions

Senior Advisor, Finance Business Partner – Functions

Be part of a group that is safety- and results-driven, while valuing inclusion

• Key finance role within the Business & Technology Support Finance Business Partner (FBP) team

• Proven experience in financial planning and performance management within a large organisation

• Strong ability to influence and drive business outcomes

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Advisor, Finance Business Partner Functions to support the senior leadership teams across Rio Tinto’s Functions. This Brisbane-based role is part of the Business, Technology & Support FBP team, reporting through to Finance Business Partner Functions.

This is a high-performing, collaborative team that requires someone who is self-driven, proactive, and highly stakeholder-focused. The successful candidate will be expected to take ownership quickly and lead through influence and delivery.

This position requires exceptional analytical capability, strong business acumen, and a demonstrated ability to influence and drive performance outcomes. You will play a key role in financial planning, governance, and decision-making support across diverse corporate functions.

As part of a high-performing finance team, you will:

• 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

• 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 optimise 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.

About You

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• 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

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and trends

• 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

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience working within support environments and understanding the processes, risks and challenges of support groups 

What We Offer

• Recognition for your contributions and a clear impact on global progress

• A work environment where safety is the top priority

• Competitive base salary and annual incentive bonus

• Subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family

• Attractive share ownership plan and company-provided insurance cover

• Extensive salary packaging and salary sacrifice options

• Career development and education assistance for leadership or technical growth

• Genuine opportunities for internal career progression across the BTS Finance team

• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support

• Generous leave entitlements, including vacation, paid parental, sick, and cultural leave

• Paid parental leave of 18 weeks, accessible to all parents at a time that suits your family

• Access to exclusive employee discounts (accommodation, banking, travel, retail, and more)

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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.

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.

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