Commercial Finance Business Partner – Buy & Move

Why explore

• Make a difference in a commercial organisation and to our Procurement and Commercial Operations business

• Collaborate with the business to shape our strategy and bring strong financial and commercial acumen to advise our leaders on complex and exciting projects

• Support the teams with performance analysis and KPI’s to influence future performance

• Strong collaboration with global stakeholders across Operations, Risk, Market Analysis, Strategy, Tax and Treasury

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Commercial Finance Business Partner for our Commercial division in the APAC. The role is a fantastic opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders to provide advice to the business and support the development and execution of strategic decision making.

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Business Partner Lead – Buy & Move, we are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual to:

• Think pro-actively, take initiative and work confidently with senior stakeholders

• Drive performance management by providing commercial and financial insight to:

  • Provide actionable insights into financial performance, through financial analysis including working capital, value drivers and costs.

  • Identify opportunities and risks, and pro-actively make recommendations.

  • Enable leaders to hold the organisation to account, monitor progress against plan and challenge variances.

  • Enable proper support costs budgeting and management for the business in conjunction with Controllership.

• Contribute to the development of business strategy and planning:

  • With the team, partner with leaders, finance teams and other stakeholders across the business to improve performance management processes and forward-looking KPI’s.

  • Model and develop financial plans and forecasts for the business including business and organisational priorities.

  • Partner with stakeholders in Australia and Singapore to understand, forecast and optimise Group’s working capital to provide leadership with input and influence strategy for value generation.

  • Support initiative tracking (Momentum), reporting and valuation to underpin measuring Procurement’s and Commercial Operation’s (primarily marine and logistics) contribution to the bottom line.

  • Advise and prepare pipeline of new value initiatives (Building Full Potential).

• Drive change initiatives and transformation in Finance:

  • Exhibit Rio Tinto’s value for continuous improvement and excellence, optimizing FBP practices and processes.

  • Leveraging on individual knowledge to contribute to the overall knowledge level of the team, and identify areas for growth and development opportunities.

  • Support the evolution of the performance management process to focus on forward-looking KPIs and discussion to tease out the so-what’s.

  • Leverage the use of available technology within the Finance team.

  • Provide mentorship to junior team members where required.

  • Support functional cost discipline across Procurement and Commercial Operations.

About you

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

• Relevant degree and/or professional qualification e.g. CFA, CA, CPA, MBA.

• 15+ years finance experience ideally with exposure to procurement, supply chain, or commodities.

• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial, PG Finance and Controllership.

• A love for connecting people across the Group to solve problems. 

• Proactive participation underpinned by the ability to objectively assess, reflect and challenge performance and plans for the business.

• Experience effectively managing a diverse team of stakeholders and building relationships in a matrix model.

• Resilience and a drive for continuous improvement, value creation and risks

• Strong analytical and logical skills to contribute and support strategic and forward thinking.

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Rio Tinto is a global company, and the duties of this position require daily collaboration with colleagues, teams or partners based in our core commercial hubs of Singapore, Perth and Montreal.

What we offer

• 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 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) 

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: 14 November 2025 (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 LGBTQIA+ 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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