Senior Advisor – Finance Business Partnering

Job title: Senior Advisor – Finance Business Partnering

Job description: Senior Advisor – Finance Business Partnering

• Belong to a company that aims to be a leader in environmental performance and be part of the solution to climate change.
• Play a key role in developing a strong performance culture and evaluating transformation projects to make BC Works a leader in the aluminum industry.
• Deepen your operational knowledge and gain a better understanding of the key value levers, with a view to increasing the company’s profitability.
• Work with stakeholders in various roles (operations, commercial, procurement, human resources, controllership, etc.) across different levels of the organization.

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Finance Advisor, who will play an integral role within the Rio Tinto Aluminum Finance team, in the Finance Business Partner Function. This role is based at the BC Works Smelter & Power Operation site in Kitimat, British Columbia.

This is a great opportunity for a strategic and engaging individual to shape the business strategy and oversee its implementation.

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 Finance Business Partner – BC Works, and working a Monday to Friday schedule, you will:

• Ensure that health and safety is the top priority by following policies and procedures and always acting in a safe manner
• Work alongside operational teams to help the site manage business performance: to assist in the plan execution while tracking against actual expenses; to identify threats and opportunities; and to offer guidance and stimulate ideas for forecasts
• Simplify and communicate financial information across the site with a clear focus on empowering employees at all levels and making them proactive in their decision making
• Focus on value creation and optimization opportunities and ensure initiatives are properly carried out
• Coordinate reporting on cost management and value creation
• Analyze and interpret financial results to address the right levers for maximizing value
• Prepare and review financial models to evaluate the business case for financial investments
• Participate in budget setting and forecasting
• Assist the company in targeting the most profitable initiatives to maximize value
• Oversee compliance with internal financial controls, while maintaining high ethical standards

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• University degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• At least seven years of relevant work experience
• Excellent communication and engagement skills to influence others and drive outcomes
• A results-oriented and proactive approach to work
• High adaptability to change
• The ability to work well with a team and independently (working effectively with minimal supervision)
• Leadership skills, including motivating others with a high level of engagement and a genuine care
• Advanced proficiency with data analytics and critical-thinking
• A solid understanding of the key drivers of profitability
• At least a working knowledge of English

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• MBA or master’s degree in a related field
• CPA (chartered professional accountant) designation
• Understanding of the manufacturing industry and/or industrial operations
• Fluency in English and French

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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation assistance

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.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video:

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.

Applications close: August 14, 2022

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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