Senior Adviser Finance

Rio Tinto; Gladstone Regional; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Competitive base salary

Comprehensive medical benefits

Salary packaging options

Job summary

Rio Tinto’s Boyne Smelter in Gladstone is seeking a Senior Adviser Finance to provide strategic financial partnership and performance insight to operational and senior leaders. You will drive cost leadership, shape investment decisions and coordinate monthly reporting and JV communications.

You’ll collaborate with the Finance team to deliver robust forecasts, manage costs and support business planning, capital portfolio reviews and transformation initiatives in a dynamic mining environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or related discipline.
• Experience in finance business partnering, FP&A or strategic finance.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate insights.
• Strong financial modelling, budgeting and forecasting capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive cost leadership across the site through robust budgeting and cost management.
• Complete month-end tasks with accurate analysis of energy and employee costs.
• Coordinate monthly reporting and improve performance commentary.
• Support Board and JV queries with high-quality papers and materials.
• Provide strategic oversight of capital portfolios and investment cases.
• Partner with Planning on budgeting and forecasting with robust assumptions.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance and drive transformation.
• Develop AI/automation solutions to enhance finance processes.

Skills

Financial modelling

Budgeting & forecasting

Finance business partnering

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Commerce/Business

Tools

SAP

Copilot Studio

Job description

Senior Adviser Finance | Boyne Smelter, Gladstone

• Turn financial insight into operational impact, partnering with leaders to strengthen performance, shape investment decisions and drive better business outcomes

• Permanent opportunity which includes attractive salary, annual incentives and a range of additional benefits designed to make your life better

• Gladstone-based position so you can enjoy all the perks of living a coastal lifestyle

We’reFindingBetterWays to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

This site-based Adviser role provides strategic financial partnership, performance insight and decision support to operational and senior business leaders, as well as supporting engagement with Boyne Smelters Limited’s joint venture participants. The role will help leaders understand financial performance, manage costs, improve business outcomes and make informed operational, commercial and investment decisions.

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys working closely with stakeholders, influencing outcomes, and driving continuous improvement in a complex global environment.

The preferred commencement for this role will be mid-January 2027.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, you will work as part of the site Finance team and collaborate closely with the broader Pacific Operations Finance team.

Your key accountabilities will be to:

• Drive a strong cost leadership culture across the site by partnering with departments to strengthen performance routines, embed leading practices and build cost management capability. Collaborate with peers across Pacific Operations to share and develop leading cost practices

• Perform key month-end activities and analysis, take direct, hands-on accountability for completing recurring month-end tasks, including energy costs, employee costs, cell componentisation and selected cost leadership activities, and ensure outputs are accurate, timely and supported by clear analysis

• Coordinate management and joint venture reporting by delivering high-quality monthly reporting, constructively challenge inputs and improve the clarity and strategic value of performance commentary

• Support the Board and joint venture participants by working with the Company Secretary to respond to queries, prepare high-quality Board papers, presentations and meeting materials, and coordinate site visits

• Provide strategic financial oversight of the capital portfolio by partnering with the Projects and Business Analysis teams to maintain robust forecasts, identify risks and opportunities, evaluate and challenge business cases, and support informed investment decisions

• Partner with the Planning team on budgeting, forecasting, and business planning, ensuring financial assumptions are robust and aligned with business priorities, and coordinate site inputs and system submissions to support timely and accurate planning outcomes

• Identify opportunities to improve business performance and track delivery of transformation initiatives against agreed outcomes

• Build trusted relationships across the business and act as a proactive finance partner on strategic and operational matters

• Leverage AI, automation and analytics to improve efficiency, quality and insight provided through finance processes, including developing fit-for-purpose digital solutions and AI agents

About you

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

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and our team

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business, or a related discipline

• Demonstrated experience in finance business partnering, FP&A, commercial finance, or a similar strategic finance role within a complex organisation

• A proactive, collaborative and adaptable approach, with the ability to build strong relationships and remain closely connected to operational priorities

• A hands‑on approach and willingness to personally complete essential finance activities while also contributing to broader business partnering and improvement priorities

• The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high‑quality outcomes within required timeframes

• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and clearly communicate financial insights that support decision‑making

• Strong financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management capabilities

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Desirable skills and experience

• A professional accounting or finance designation such as CA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent

• Experience in use of SAP particularly across Finance and Procurement

• Experience using Microsoft Copilot Studio or similar automation and AI tools

• Experience working in mining, metals, manufacturing, resources, industrial, or other large‑scale operational environments

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 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 well‑being support

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you’ll be working

Opened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres southeast of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

Boyne Smelters is proud to contribute to the local community alongside the Rio Tinto Gladstone Aluminium sites – QAL and Yarwun refinery – through impactful funding initiatives and regional investment.

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.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQ+ 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.