Why explore

• Make a difference in a commercial organisation and to our Procurement and Commercial Operations business
• Collaborate with the business to shape our strategy and bring strong financial and commercial acumen to advise our leaders on complex and exciting projects
• Support the teams with performance analysis and KPI's to influence future performance
• Strong collaboration with global stakeholders across Operations, Risk, Market Analysis, Strategy, Tax and Treasury
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Commercial Finance Business Partner for our Commercial division in the APAC. The role is a fantastic opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders to provide advice to the business and support the development and execution of strategic decision making.

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Business Partner Lead - Buy & Move, we are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual to:

Think pro-actively, take initiative and work confidently with senior stakeholders

Drive performance management by providing commercial and financial insight to:

• Provide actionable insights into financial performance, through financial analysis including working capital, value drivers and costs.
• Identify opportunities and risks, and pro-actively make recommendations.
• Enable leaders to hold the organisation to account, monitor progress against plan and challenge variances.
• Enable proper support costs budgeting and management for the business in conjunction with Controllership.

Contribute to the development of business strategy and planning:

• With the team, partner with leaders, finance teams and other stakeholders across the business to improve performance management processes and forward-looking KPI's.
• Model and develop financial plans and forecasts for the business including business and organisational priorities.
• Partner with stakeholders in Australia and Singapore to understand, forecast and optimise Group's working capital to provide leadership with input and influence strategy for value generation.
• Support initiative tracking (Momentum), reporting and valuation to underpin measuring Procurement's and Commercial Operation's (primarily marine and logistics) contribution to the bottom line.
• Advise and prepare pipeline of new value initiatives (Building Full Potential).

Drive change initiatives and transformation in Finance:

• Exhibit Rio Tinto's value for continuous improvement and excellence, optimising FBP practices and processes.
• Leveraging on individual knowledge to contribute to the overall knowledge level of the team, and identify areas for growth and development opportunities.
• Support the evolution of the performance management process to focus on forward-looking KPIs and discussion to tease out the so-what's.
• Leverage the use of available technology within the Finance team.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members where required.
• Support functional cost discipline across Procurement and Commercial Operations.

About you

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

• Relevant degree and/or professional qualification e.g. CFA, CA, CPA, MBA.
• 15+ years finance experience ideally with exposure to procurement, supply chain, or commodities.
• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial, PG Finance and Controllership.
• A love for connecting people across the Group to solve problems.
• Proactive participation underpinned by the ability to objectively assess, reflect and challenge performance and plans for the business.
• Experience effectively managing a diverse team of stakeholders and building relationships in a matrix model.
• Resilience and a drive for continuous improvement, value creation and risks
• Strong analytical and logical skills to contribute and support strategic and forward thinking.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Rio Tinto is a global company, and the duties of this position require daily collaboration with colleagues, teams or partners based in our core commercial hubs of Singapore, Perth and Montreal.