Commercial Finance Advisor (10-Months Fixed Term)

Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business

• 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 Based in Singapore

About the role

We are looking for a Commercial Finance Advisor to join our Commercial Finance team here 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, planning processes and to identify opportunities to deliver results.

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Business Partner – Planning & Improvement, you will:

Support the setup of an independent revenue generating unit in Commercial for third party trading

• Partner with controllership, tax, legal and treasury to ensure the setup of an independent revenue generating unit in Commercial to track performance of third-party trading.

• Develop principles to support clear P&L accountability between third party vs equity tonnes, ensuring product group is made whole.

• Partner with the other enabler workstreams to support ramp up of third-party trading.

• Proactively support working capital requirements of the third-party trading ambition over time by partnering with business and treasury to ensure that working capital requirements and the returns are well understood.

Support the planning process to execute our strategy

• Supports the Commercial planning process with information and insights valuable to leadership in terms of Revenues, profitability, working capital, value drivers and costs.

• Support Commercial performance management and value drivers, including cost discipline across the entire commercial organization (Buy, Sell, Move and Enable).

• Proactively drive financial analysis and influence outcomes through providing insightful analysis.

• Support the evolution of performance management processes and forward-looking KPI’s – tracking key value drivers that align to Commercial and Group objectives.

Partner with the business to drive cost ownership, value delivery and improvement initiatives

• Providing insights to Group’s working capital to provide leadership with input and influence strategy for cash conversion and value strategy.

• Provide cost performance reporting and support to Commercial leaders.

• Drive initiative tracking, reporting and development of valuation methodologies to measure value delivery and support development of new initiatives.

• Focus on developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across the business.

Optimize Finance Business Partner processes and practices

• Strongly exhibit Rio Tinto’s value for continuous improvement and excellence, helping to optimize FBP practices that contributes to Commercial’s success.

• Work with Group through the delivery of the modern ERP to ensure fit for purpose systems, processes and reporting.

• Constantly drive to automate and streamline processes and challenge the existing ways of doing things.

About you

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

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification e.g., MBA, ACA, CPA.

• 10 years + significant finance and commercial experience within a global organization.

• Experience effectively managing and influencing a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Analytical and strategic forward-thinker.

• 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 prioritize and possess excellent organizational skills.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience working with Rio Tinto’s finance processes and systems (e.g., SAP and HFM).

• Procurement experience reflected in understanding of procurement practices and performance metrics, however not essential.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority 

• A full-time 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 

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 

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

What we offer

• 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: 26 January 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 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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