Senior Adviser Finance

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

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.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.

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.

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.