- Be the go-to point of contact for Finance for the Global Head of Procurement (Buy) and Head of Commercial Operations (Move)
- Lead a team to help stakeholders shape strategy and planning through performance management, providing insights to ensure focus on the highest value initiatives
- Leverage financial expertise and objectivity to influence strategy, solve problems, driving great decisions across the business
- Strong collaboration with global stakeholders across Group Finance, Sales & Marketing, Procurement, Operations, Risk, Market Analysis, Strategy, Tax and Treasury
- The role is based in Singapore, managing a global team in Singapore, Perth and Montreal, and reporting to the GM Commercial Finance
About the role
Commercial exists to ensure the best commercial outcomes for the entire Rio Tinto Group. Across Buy, Sell and Move, we connect closely with the Product Groups (PG) to enable end to end value creation.
We are looking for a Finance Business Partner Lead to join our team in Rio Tinto’s Commercial Hub in Singapore. The role is a great opportunity to work with senior Rio Tinto leaders and stakeholders to manage planning and performance management and support the execution of strategic decision making. Reporting to the General Manager Commercial Finance we are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual who can:
- Think pro-actively, take initiative and work confidently with senior stakeholders
- Lead planning process to execute our strategy
- Own and drive the planning process for Procurement and Commercial Operations, including business and organisational priorities
Influence senior management in shaping priorities and delivering outcomes
- Partner with the business to drive performance management and value delivery
- Partner with leaders, finance teams and other stakeholders across the business globally to own and drive the evolution of performance management processes and forward-looking KPI’s
- Support material initiatives, business cases or new category (e.g. decarbonisation) development with financial modelling and trade off decisions
- Drive and further embed functional cost discipline and cost ownership with leaders in the business
- Leveraging on insights into the Group’s working capital to provide leadership with input and influence strategy for value generation, with a focus on Payables optimisation
- Drive initiative tracking (Momentum), reporting and development of valuation methodologies to underpin measuring Procurement’s and Commercial Operation’s contribution to the bottom line
- Own the Commercial Operations (Marine) P&L including having oversight of financials to ensure that statutory reporting in compliance with latest accounting & tax standards
- Drive change initiatives and transformation in Finance
- Strongly exhibit Rio Tinto’s value for continuous improvement and excellence, optimising FBP practices that contribute to Commercial’s success
- Use best practices and knowledge of internal and external business environment to provide advice to the business and improve processes and performance.
- Lead and evolve performance management process to focus on forward-looking KPIs
- Develop finance capability within the business: Work with Group through the delivery of the modern ERP delivery to ensure fit for purpose systems, processes, KPIs, reporting, planning and forecasting
- Manage and develop Finance Business Partners across different levels of experience from junior finance advisors to manager-level FBPs across different locations.
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial, PG Finance and Controllership
- A love for connecting people across the Group to solve problems
- Proactive participation underpinned by the ability to objectively assess, reflect and challenge performance and plans for the business
- 15+ years finance experience ideally with exposure to commodities
- Relevant degree and/or professional qualification e.g. CFA, CA, CPA, MBA
- Experience in effectively managing and influencing a diverse team of stakeholders and building relationships in a matrix model
- Experience in leading a team including providing guidance and mentorship, evaluating employee performance, recommending pay actions and managing workload.
- Strong analytical and logical skills to contribute and support strategic and forward thinking
- Drive for continuous improvement, value creation and risks
- Excellent communication, collaboration, leadership and presentation skills
What we offer
- 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 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)
Where you will be working
Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto’s assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customer’s needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality,cost and capital expenditure.
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.”
