Senior Adviser Controllership

Senior Advisor – Controllership

• Accounting Influence – Be the key Controllership contact for Weipa Bauxite operations, with overall accounting treatment and reporting responsibility.

• Capital Accounting – Primary contact for capital accounting and deliver high-impact financial analysis across the Pacific Bauxite & Alumina scope.

• Continuous Growth – Join a team committed to learning, optimisation, and innovation in financial reporting and controllership.

About the Role

As Senior Advisor – Controllership, you’ll join the Pacific Bauxite & Alumina Controllership team, collaborating closely with the Closing & Reporting teams and Finance Business Partners (FBPs).

This role offers a unique opportunity to lead key financial processes, provide strategic insights, and contribute to continuous improvement across our operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Controllership contact for Weipa Bauxite mining operations, ensuring compliance with reporting requirements.

• Identify and analyse accounting issues, connect financial data with business activities, assess impacts, and prepare accounting position papers.

• Primary Controllership contact for capital accounting across the Pacific Bauxite & Alumina scope.

• Prepare and deliver capital spend reports with clear financial analysis and commentary.

• Review projects to determine appropriate accounting treatment and support decision-making.

• Perform Blackline reconciliations for manual capex accounts and analyse AUC balances, including period-end accruals.

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

• Conduct reviews on inventory obsolescence, capital spares, standard pricing, and quarterly royalty return calculations.

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

• Assist with the annual statutory audit, including review of special purpose financial statements and coordination with external auditors.

• Contribute to the standardisation and optimisation of Controllership reports and processes.

• Embrace learning opportunities and play a key role in the team’s evolution.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, plus a professional accounting qualification (CA, CPA, or equivalent).

• Strong technical accounting skills; experience in mining and capital accounting is highly desirable.

• Advanced Excel skills and working knowledge of SAP/BW.

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to multitask and deliver high-quality work under pressure.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proactive approach with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Strong business acumen and ability to connect financial data with operational activities.

• Experience in management reporting and working with external auditors or Big 4 firms is a plus.

What We Offer

• A permanent role with Rio Tinto, where safety is the top priority.

• Competitive salary with annual incentive program.

• Subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family.

• Share ownership plan and company-provided insurance.

• Salary packaging options and career development support.

• Paid leave for all life’s moments – annual, parental, and sick leave.

• Access to wellbeing programs and exclusive employee discounts.

• Potential domestic relocation assistance.

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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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