Senior Adviser Controllership

Senior Advisor – RTA Pacific Controllership (Bauxite & Alumina).

About the role

This is a Perth-based role supporting the RTA Pacific Bauxite & Alumina Controllership and is part of the RTA Pacific Controllership team. Working collaboratively with the Business, Finance Business Partners (FBP) and Closing & Reporting team, the key responsibilities include:

• Act as the primary Controllership contact for Refinery operations, ensuring compliance with reporting requirements.

• Prepare, review, and analyse monthly, half-yearly, and annual financial results for both external and management purposes.

• Identify and investigate accounting issues, connect financial information with business activities, quantify impacts, and prepare accounting position papers.

• Provide technical accounting and financial advisory support for RTA Pacific B&A Operations, including preparing papers on accounting and reporting treatment for transactions.

• Ensure compliance with internal controls, SOX standards, and Rio Tinto’s accounting policies, investigate legacy balances and review Blackline reconciliations.

• Support half-year and year-end group reporting deliverables, including analytical reviews, disclosure submissions, and management sign-off packs.

• Partner with operational, commercial, and support teams to enhance financial services provided to the Business Unit.

• Review Capital Expenditure Applications and contracts to determine accounting implications.

• Support the Controllership function in standardising and optimising its processes.

• Assisting with the group reporting and annual statutory audit process, including reviewing general-purpose statutory financial statements and supporting external audits.

• As an evolving role, this position offers extensive learning opportunities, and also provides a significant chance to contribute to the team.

About you

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

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with strong technical accounting skills and an accounting certification (CA, CPA, or equivalent).

• Advanced Excel skills and working knowledge of SAP/BW and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) are highly desirable.

• Experience with external auditors, Big 4 audit experience, SOx, Tolling operations and Aluminium business is highly desirable.

• Excellent teamwork, multitasking abilities, and commitment to delivering quality work under time pressure.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, proactive nature, and ability to work independently.

• A continuous improvement mindset to simplify, standardise processes and reporting.

• Good business acumen and effective collaboration with colleagues.

• Management reporting capability and the ability to connect financial information with business activities for insightful analysis.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work:

• 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 support your ambitions

• Access to top-tier family-friendly health, medical programs, and a retirement plan

• Wellbeing benefits, including ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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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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