Senior Adviser Finance

Senior Adviser – Finance Business Partnering | Weipa, QLD

• Advance your career in a dynamic, supportive team environment 

• Many other additional benefits including flexible working, Rio Tinto share scheme, Rio Discounts Program, contribution to medical costs and more! 
   

About the role  

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.  

Rio Tinto’s Weipa operations in Far North Queensland are looking for a curious and commercially minded finance professional to join our high-performing Finance team. 

We are seeking a Senior Adviser – Finance Business Partnering to provide trusted financial advice, analysis and performance insights that support operational decision-making at site. Based in Weipa, this role works closely with operations and finance stakeholders to understand business performance, challenge assumptions constructively and help shape practical decisions that improve outcomes. 

This is an individual contributor role, with no direct people leadership responsibilities. Success in the role will come through your technical finance capability, strong business partnering and ability to influence outcomes through relationships, insight and advice. 

The role is well suited to a mid-career finance professional who has already built a strong technical foundation and is ready to broaden their impact through deeper stakeholder partnering, commercial influence and site leadership support. 

This role would suit someone who enjoys being close to the operation, is confident in their technical finance skills and is ready to further develop their commercial partnering capability. 

As part of Rio Tinto’s global Finance community, you will be supported to continue developing your career while contributing to an operation that plays an important role in providing the materials the world needs. 

Reporting to the Manager Finance in Weipa, you will be: 

• Owning and supporting site planning, forecasting, variance analysis and performance reporting, translating financial results into clear operational insights. 

• Interpreting monthly, quarterly and annual financial results, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities for the assigned operational area. 

• Partnering with operational stakeholders to understand cost performance, challenge assumptions constructively and support practical decisions that improve business outcomes. 

• Preparing business analysis, project valuation support and financial modelling to help validate business opportunities and improvement initiatives. 

• Building trusted relationships across site teams by providing timely, reliable and commercially grounded finance advice. 

• Supporting the uplift of financial acumen across the operation by explaining financial information in a clear, practical and audience-appropriate way. 

• Working with global finance teams to improve systems, reporting, metrics and processes so they are fit for purpose and easy for the business to use. 

• Identifying financial opportunities and influencing outcomes through analysis, cost leadership and proactive engagement with the business. 

• Maintaining effective reporting mechanisms that provide stakeholders with insightful and appropriate analysis of financial performance. 

• Contributing to matters with potentially significant financial impact, including economic and competitive trends, pricing, cash flow, product line evaluation and capital additions. 

What you’ll bring   

To be successfully considered for this role, we are looking for someone who has developed strong technical finance capability and is now looking to grow their impact through business partnering, stakeholder influence and commercial decision support. You will bring: 

• A bachelor’s degree and/or professional qualification such as CA, CPA or progress toward a relevant professional qualification. 

• Demonstrated experience in management accounting, business analysis, planning, forecasting or performance reporting. 

• Strong Excel capability and confidence working with financial data, analysis and reporting tools. 

• Working knowledge of Power BI or similar reporting tools, with a willingness to continue building digital and analytical capability. 

• A solid technical finance foundation, with the ability to explain financial results, drivers and assumptions in a clear and practical way. 

• The confidence to partner with stakeholders, ask constructive questions and provide commercially grounded advice. 

• A collaborative, team-oriented approach and the ability to work across finance and operational teams to deliver priorities. 

• Curiosity and initiative to identify financial opportunities, improve ways of working and support better business decisions. 

• Effective communication and presentation skills, including the ability to tailor financial information for different audiences. 

It will also be beneficial if you have: 

• Experience using SAP. 

• Experience with business intelligence, reporting or planning tools such as Power BI, Workiva, Tagetik or Workday. 
    

This role provides:  

• Domestic relocation if required  

• Weipa accommodation benefit  

• Remote area allowance  

• Remote area holiday travel assistance  

• You will be working a 9 day fortnight  

• Be recognized 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 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 subsidised private 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, cultural leave) 

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them 

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more 
   

Where you will be working and living 
 

Rio Tinto Weipa is located 900 kilometres north-west of Cairns on the Gulf of Carpentaria and has been operating for more than 50 years. Over time, Weipa has grown into a vibrant and diverse community and an important operational hub for Rio Tinto’s Aluminium business.