Senior Advisor Finance

Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business
• Further sharpen your business partnering skills
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Finance Advisor to join our Commercial Finance Business Partnering team in Rio Tinto’s Commercial Hub in Singapore. This role is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional with the passion and desire to drive planning and performance management at a large, dynamic and complex business, with proven engagement and influencing skills and highly demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and to identify opportunities to deliver results.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Commercial Finance Business Partner, we are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual to:

Partner with the business to drive performance

• Prepare and report month-end performance evaluations including actionable insights into financial performance, through production of a wide range of insightful analysis.
• Enable leaders to hold the business to account through performance measurement and supporting discussions with VP and General Managers on revenue, product margins, P&L and trade working capital.
• Provide insights and support initiatives to improve trade working capital.
• Support decision making through working with Sales & Operational Planning on analysis of trade-off decisions.
• Strong collaboration across Commercial, Operations, Risk and other stakeholders to support the business, including being the key conduit to other parts of the Finance function.
• Identify opportunities and risks through analysis and modelling, and pro-actively make recommendations.
• Constantly drive to automate and streamline processes and challenge or improve the existing ways of doing things.

Contribute to the development of business strategy and planning

• Influence senior management in shaping commercial strategies and priorities.
• Preparing annual business/financial plan and forecasts through understanding of key markets and value drivers.
• Partner with the business to collaborate and support new activities.
• Support planning of headcount and costs.

About you

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

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification e.g., MBA, ACA, CPA.
• 8 years + significant finance and commercial experience within a global organisation.
• Experience effectively managing and influencing a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and logical skills to contribute and support strategic and forward thinking.
• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders
• Demonstrated leadership abilities with capacity to work autonomously.
• Expertise across a full range of standard business and finance tools (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
• Strong capability to effectively prioritise and possess excellent organisational skills.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience working with Rio Tinto’s finance processes and systems (e.g. SAP).
• Mandarin language skills would be advantageous, as the role involves frequent interaction with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders.

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
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross‑functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine‑to‑market value around the world.

Application Deadline: 15 October 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.”

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.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ 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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