Senior Finance Advisor

Senior Advisor Finance | Weipa

• Full-time permanent position 
• Exceptional career advancement prospects within a global enterprise 
• Experience the beauty of the Cape right in your backyard 
• Flexible 9 Day Roster 

About the role

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Advisor Finance who will support the Strategy and Town Services Leadership team. The role requires strong analytical support and a sophisticated ability to influence and drive change.
 

Key Responsibilities
 

Reporting to the Manager Strategy & Town Services, you will:

• Be a part of a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance
• Exhibit Rio Tinto’s values, 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 including Finance, Controllership, Treasury, Tax and Risk
• Collaborate with other regional teams on Global plans and actuals and improvement processes
• 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 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

Specific Areas of Operation
 

Responsibilities include:

• Collaboration with the RTA finance team to develop and deliver accurate month end processes that meet the needs of the following areas of Operations:
  • Weipa Town Authority and RTA. Noting that WTA and RTA operate across different systems
  • Cape Kids and RTA. Noting the role of the Maxxia and Centre link related funding
  • RT Closure and RTA for Progressive Closure progress reporting.
• Oversee the timely and accurate preparation of month-end reporting. Review the preparation of Accrual due by COB WD-2; and Actuals for the WTA, Cape Kids Childcare Centre and RT Closure.
• Oversee and assist with the preparation and review of the annual financial reports as they relate to WTA, Cape Kids Childcare Centre and RT Closure.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, internal controls, accounting standards and company policies.
• Collaborate with auditors and regulatory bodies during audit and reviews. Provide team with guidance around additional controls and process changes to correct any arising recommendations from reviews.
• Support teams in recognising and evaluating the financial impact of business activities and projects.
• Support the Cape Kids Childcare Centre for their debt management process.
• Identify and analyse opportunities for process enhancements and cost optimisation within teams
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting and forward planning
• Provide guidance around Capital Projects
• Guide and support Supervisors, Cape Kids Management team and Closure Readiness management team in developing stronger financial knowledge and skills
• For the Cape Kids Childcare Centre, support obligations may extend to non-financial matters associated with the Centre operations.
   

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor degree in a financial discipline and/or professional qualification MBA, ACA, CPA, CMA
• 5 years + finance experience within a complex global organisation.  This should include experience with Joint Venture accounting. Experience with mining and exploration accounting is preferred.
• A team player with excellent communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels
• Analytical and forward-thinking competencies
• Good knowledge of budgeting and forecasting
• Genuine curiosity for understanding detailed business performance and using that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives.  Continuous improvement, value creation with evidence of identifying and mitigating risks
• 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 

• Full domestic relocation provided to Far North Queensland
• Weipa accommodation benefit 
• Remote area allowance 
• Remote area holiday travel assistance 
• Be recognized 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 
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto 
• 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, cultural leave)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more
   

Where you’ll be working 
 

Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tons of bauxite. 
 

Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforce—including 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management. 
 

The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape

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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