Senior Advisor Finance

Rio Tinto Singapore Holdings Pte Ltd; Santo Niño 1st; On-site; PHP 5,885,000 - 8,337,000; Full time

Job summary

Rio Tinto seeks a Senior Finance Advisor for its Commercial Finance Business Partnering team in Singapore. This role focuses on planning, performance management, and delivering insights to drive value across a large, complex business.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Commercial Finance Business Partner, you will influence leaders, automate processes, and partner with Sales, Operations, Risk and other stakeholders to sustain growth and optimize capital allocation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or professional qualification (MBA/ ACA/ CPA) preferred.
• 8+ years of finance and commercial experience in a global organisation.
• Experience managing and influencing diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and logical skills for strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the business to drive performance with month-end evaluations and insights.
• Enable leaders to track revenue, margins, P&L, and working capital performance.
• Provide insights to improve trade working capital and support decision making.
• Collaborate with Sales & Operations Planning on trade-off analyses.
• Work with Commercial, Operations, Risk and others to support the business.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Autonomy

Curiosity

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/ ACA/ CPA

Tools

SAP

PowerPoint

Excel

PowerBI

Job description

Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business
• Further sharpen your business partnering skills
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Finance Advisor to join our Commercial Finance Business Partnering team in Rio Tinto’s Commercial Hub in Singapore. This role is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional with the passion and desire to drive planning and performance management at a large, dynamic and complex business, with proven engagement and influencing skills and highly demonstrated ability to run financial analysis and to identify opportunities to deliver results.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Commercial Finance Business Partner, we are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual to:

Partner with the business to drive performance

• Prepare and report month-end performance evaluations including actionable insights into financial performance, through production of a wide range of insightful analysis.
• Enable leaders to hold the business to account through performance measurement and supporting discussions with VP and General Managers on revenue, product margins, P&L and trade working capital.
• Provide insights and support initiatives to improve trade working capital.
• Support decision making through working with Sales & Operational Planning on analysis of trade-off decisions.
• Strong collaboration across Commercial, Operations, Risk and other stakeholders to support the business, including being the key conduit to other parts of the Finance function.
• Identify opportunities and risks through analysis and modelling, and pro-actively make recommendations.
• Constantly drive to automate and streamline processes and challenge or improve the existing ways of doing things.

Contribute to the development of business strategy and planning

• Influence senior management in shaping commercial strategies and priorities.
• Preparing annual business/financial plan and forecasts through understanding of key markets and value drivers.
• Partner with the business to collaborate and support new activities.
• Support planning of headcount and costs.

About you

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

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification e.g., MBA, ACA, CPA.
• 8 years+ significant finance and commercial experience within a global organisation.
• Experience effectively managing and influencing a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and logical skills to contribute and support strategic and forward thinking.
• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders
• Demonstrated leadership abilities with capacity to work autonomously.
• Expertise across a full range of standard business and finance tools (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
• Strong capability to effectively prioritise and possess excellent organisational skills.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience working with Rio Tinto’s finance processes and systems (e.g. SAP).
• Mandarin language skills would be advantageous, as the role involves frequent interaction with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders.