Rio Tinto Hiring for Finance Business Partner Job at Reading, England Full Time

Principal Advisor, Finance Business Partner – Business & Technology Support

• Be part of a group that is safety & results driven, while valuing inclusion
• Key leadership role for Business & Technology Support in the Finance Business Partner organization supporting Exploration and Closure
• Role based in Reading, England

About the role

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

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to support the RT Closure and Exploration senior leaders and their leadership teams. The role requires strong analytical support and a sophisticated ability to influence and drive change.

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional with the passion and desire to drive the financial planning and support the performance of a large business, with proven engagement and influence skills and highly demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and planning processes, solve complex problems and to identify opportunities and deliver results.

In this role, you will:

• Be a part of a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance, providing decision and execution support to senior leaders across Closure and Exploration.
• Provide senior management with relevant, detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis, studies and counsel to influence and shape growth and closure strategies
• Manage direct reports and support the broader team to improve skillsets and effectiveness, including coaching and mentoring
• Strongly exhibit Rio Tinto’s values, and strive for continuous improvement and excellence, helping establish new benchmarks for a finance team’s contribution to business success
• Partner with stakeholders to proactively drive financial analysis and cost discipline and influence outcomes through providing a decision framework supported by insightful and accurate analysis
• Build rapport with a variety of senior stakeholders in Closure and Exploration and across Finance including Finance & Accounting Services, Treasury, Tax and Risk
• Understand performance to identify improvement opportunities, and support the business in developing high value initiatives to optimize business outcomes
• Drive process optimization across the FBP team, fostering a continuous improvement mindset, leveraging available technologies while ensuring effective governance and compliance through effective application of financial controls and risk management
• Support country entry and exit for our exploration activities as well as plant and location closures throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

Your contribution

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

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification MBA, ACA, CPA
• 8 years + finance experience within a complex global organisation
• Fluency in both English and French (written and verbal)
• A team player with excellent communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels
• Ability to solve complex problems where precedence may not exist
• Genuine curiosity for understanding detailed business performance and using that understanding to develop insights and improvement initiatives. Continuous improvement, value creation with evidence of identifying and mitigating risks
• Analytical and forward thinking competencies
• Strong background of influencing and working with diverse teams in matrix model
• Expertise across a full range of standard business, finance and presentation toolkits (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.) and an aptitude for identifying technology based solutions to enable increased efficiency and performance improvement
• Ability to work autonomously
• Fluency in English and French

Where you will be working

The Business & Technology Support FBP team reports through to the Group CFO and supports Safety, Technical & Projects, Strategy & Development and Central Functions including IS&T, Corporate Affairs, Finance and Human Resources. With a breadth of scope that covers exploration, project development and technical excellence, mergers & acquisition, business development through to closure; and all the functions that are necessary to run our business. You will be working closely with your direct manager in Reading and remotely with the rest of the FBP team (based in multiple locations with concentrations in Brisbane, Perth, Salt Lake City and Montreal).

What we offer

Here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• International relocation package
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

About Rio Tinto

As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress.

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 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.