Finance Representative (Modern ERP Program) – (Fixed Term)

RIO TINTO COMMERCIAL PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global mining company in Singapore is seeking a Finance Representative to join their Commercial Finance team. The role involves supporting the migration to S/4HANA, ensuring finance processes are accurately integrated into the new ERP system. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's or professional qualification, along with 5-7 years of audit experience and a strong grasp of Contract-to-Cash processes. The company offers a competitive salary and significant career development opportunities within a globally recognized commercial hub.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Annual cash incentive awards

Career development assistance

Family-friendly health and medical programs

Employee share program

Leave for personal reasons

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of audit experience required.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Contract-to-Cash processes.
• Ability to translate business processes into system requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define future-state design and integrate finance processes.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing for Commercial Finance processes.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure alignment and support.

Skills

Analytical skills

Process-thinking

Organisational skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree or professional qualification (MBA, ACA, CPA)

Tools

SAP ECC

S/4HANA

Job description

Finance Representative (Modern ERP Program) – (Fixed Term)

Why explore

• An opportunity to work with stakeholders across different levels
• Contribute meaningfully to the risk and assurance framework of our business
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto
• Fixed Term till June 2027

About the role

We are looking for a Finance Representative (Modern ERP Program) to join our Commercial Finance team here in Rio Tinto’s Commercial Hub in Singapore.

The experienced and motivated Finance Representative will join the Modern ERP program team, supporting Rio Tinto’s migration from the current SAP platform to S/4HANA. This role will act as the lead Commercial Finance representative, ensuring that all finance processes, controls, and system requirements for Commercial are correctly designed, validated, and integrated into the future ERP landscape.

You will be responsible for defining the future-state design, embedding critical financial and operational controls, and ensuring successful end-to-end testing and deployment. This is a pivotal role that shapes the future of Commercial Finance’s operating and control environment under S/4 HANA.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a professional who possesses a genuine desire to improve and enhance processes by taking an end-to-end view and incorporating risks and controls.

Reporting to the SOX Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

ERP Design & Process Integration

• Represent Commercial Finance as part of the Community of Practice (CoP) for processes and data within the MERP program.
• Define the future "to-be" state (particularly across Contract-to-Cash, Reporting and planning process) to be aligned with business objectives.
• Identify process gaps and controls to be implemented in the future system.
• Contribute to Key Design Decisions, impact assessments, RAID items, and project documentation.
• Provide sign-off on process designs and ensure Commercial Finance requirements are integrated into S/4HANA.

Change Management & Stakeholder Support

• Highlight change impacts on Commercial Finance processes.
• Work closely with senior PG/Function leaders, GPO teams, and data leads to ensure alignment.

Controls, Governance & Compliance

• Identify and resolve process and data gaps (pricing, orders, contracts, revenue flows, controls).
• Ensure key financial controls within Contract-to-Cash, invoicing, revenue recognition, price governance, and credit are embedded in the S/4 design.
• Enable process standardisation, improvement and automation.
• Lead SOX readiness assessments for new system implementations and evaluate potential impact to the SOX program due to proposed systems and/or process changes.
• Update documentation including risk and controls matrices and risk assessments.
• Champion process simplification and automation opportunities under the Modern ERP transformation agenda.

Testing, Validation & Readiness

• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Commercial Finance processes – including scenario development, execution, and issue resolution.
• Support the finance data migration, configuration, and validation process, ensuring integrity, accuracy, and compliance of migrated financial data.

Optimise Finance Business Partner processes and practice

• Work with Group through the delivery of the modern ERP to ensure fit for purpose systems, processes and reporting.

About you

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

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification e.g., MBA, ACA, CPA.
• Recent 5 to 7 years audit experience.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Contract-to-Cash (C2C) processes, financial reporting processes and key finance controls.
• Working knowledge of management and statutory reporting processes, including data flows from transaction systems to consolidation tools.
• Ability to translate business processes into system requirements and challenge design assumptions where needed.
• Prior experience with SAP ECC, S/4HANA, or major ERP implementation highly desirable.
• Strong analytical skills, process-thinking, and attention to detail.
• High capability in working across diverse cross-functional teams.
• Strong capability to effectively prioritise and possess excellent organisational skills.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine to market value around the world.