Senior Advisor Finance
- Be part of a group that is safety & results driven, while valuing inclusion
- Key role for Business & Technology Support FBP organization in North America
- Role based in Salt Lake City, Utah
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Senior Advisor Finance to support the North America Exploration senior leaders and their leadership teams. The role requires strong analytical support and a sophisticated ability to influence and drive change. The breadth and level of the critical relationships requires experience and capability. This role 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 organization with demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and planning processes and to identify opportunities and deliver results.
Reporting to the Finance Business Partner RTX, In this role, you will:
- Be a part of a high performing finance team, partnering to drive business performance:
- 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 stakeholders across Development & Technology, primarily within the Exploration team. You will also build key relationships with Functions and across Finance including Controllership, Treasury, Tax and Risk
- Collaborate with other regional teams on Global plans and actuals and improvement processes
- Lead the development of rigorous planning and drive improved business performance through highly effective forward plans
- Develop financial understanding and drive a step change in cost discipline and leadership across the cost centre owners in the areas you support
- Provide business with relevant, detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis, studies and counsel to influence and shape financial strategy, analysis and market insight
- Understand performance to identify improvement opportunities, and support the business in developing high value initiatives to optimize business outcomes
- Leverage technology to provide insightful advice and identify new improvement opportunities and improve processes within the team and business
- Ensure governance and compliance through effective application of financial controls and risk management
- Provide reporting for incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor degree in a financial discipline and/or professional qualification MBA, ACA, CPA, CMA
- 5 years + finance experience within a complex global organisation. This should include experience with Joint Venture accounting. Experience with mining and exploration accounting is preferred.
- A team player with excellent communication, influence and engagement skills at all levels
- Analytical and forward thinking competencies
- Good knowledge of budgeting and forecasting
- 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
- 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 with minimal guidance
It will also be beneficial if you have:
- Experience working within support environments and understanding the processes, risks and challenges of support groups
What we offer
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.
- Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus.
- Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
- Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
- Attractive share ownership plan.
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
- A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges
Where you’ll be working
Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.
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.
Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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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.
