Finance Business Partner

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Full Time Opportunity – FIFO/Pilbara (Karratha) or Residential

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to provide financial and commercial advice to our Supply Chain Business Units (Rail Maintenance and Rail Engineering divisions) through quality analysis and insights to facilitate well-informed decisions and to drive improved business performance.

This is a great opportunity for an energetic and performance driven individual who is keen to work in a technologically advanced, energy-efficient and cost competitive organisation

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager - Business Partner SCS, and working in a collaborative community, you will:

• Engage with Senior Leaders and the operational teams to identify, advise and evaluate productivity and value creation initiatives;
• Prepare insightful monthly financial analysis assessing how the operation has performed against forecast, budget and year on year metrics;
• Manage, review, analyse and communicate unit cost and margin performance with the ability to link physical drivers to financial outcomes;
• Coach and build business acumen with key stakeholders in financial knowledge and the use of information systems to determine cost and budget outcomes (Opex & Capex) and to improve understanding of the financial implications of decision making;
• Play a key role to support the operations’ delivery of the annual two-year financial plan submissions with supporting analysis and insights;
• Support the development of the financial justification for planned capital projects;
• Support and ensure accounting processes owned by the Financial Controller division are embedded in the operations;
• Provide commercial support for divisional contract reviews;

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team;
• An accounting qualification (CPA/CA);
• Demonstrated understanding of business planning processes, analysis, diagnostics and communication skills that will enable you to add value through recommending new ideas and process improvements;
• Strong commercial skills;
• Exceptional MS Excel spreadsheet skills (including data analysis & pivot tables);
• Demonstrated ability and interest in challenging ‘accepted’ operational processes / constraints to find more effective ways of operating;

What we offer

Be recognised 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);
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more);
• Possible domestic relocation assistance.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 30th June 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with
a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.