Senior Adviser Controllership

• Join a high-impact controllership role supporting Pacific Bauxite & Alumina operations through technical accounting, reporting, and commercial partnering.
• Broad exposure across closure provisions, lease accounting, statutory reporting, and operational finance, with the opportunity to influence key financial outcomes.
• Perth-based opportunity with strong development potential in a collaborative and high-performing finance environment.

We’re Finding Better Ways™ 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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor – Controllership to join our Pacific Bauxite & Alumina Controllership team, providing high-quality accounting advice and partnering closely with the business to support informed decision-making across operations.

This is a great opportunity for a technically strong and commercially minded accounting professional to take on a role combining hands-on involvement across closure activities, lease accounting and bauxite operations, while gaining broad exposure across the Pacific portfolio. Based in Perth, this role offers the opportunity to lead critical financial processes, deliver practical commercial insights and drive continuous improvement in a dynamic finance environment.

Reporting to the Manager – Controllership and working in a collaborative and high-performing environment within Pacific Bauxite & Alumina Controllership, you will be:

• Managing closure provisions end to end, including reporting, end of life assessments and preparation of accounting position papers in collaboration with business and study leads.
• Acting as the primary contact for Closure and lease accounting, partnering with business and accounting services teams to resolve accounting matters and support reporting requirements.
• Serving as the key Controllership contact for Gove Bauxite operations, ensuring compliance with accounting policies and reporting standards.
• Acting as a service delivery partner to the Business Unit to deliver practical, responsive and commercially focused accounting support, acting as a key interface to Finance & Accounting Services (FAS).
• Providing technical accounting support across RTA Pacific Bauxite & Alumina operations, including identification, investigation and resolution of accounting issues and preparation of accounting papers.
• Ensuring compliance with Rio Tinto accounting policies, internal controls and SOX requirements, including review of Blackline reconciliations and investigation of legacy balances.
• Delivering accurate and timely monthly reporting for your scope, proactively identifying and resolving issues impacting reporting quality or timelines.
• Supporting half year, year end and statutory reporting processes, including analytical reviews, disclosures, management sign off packs and external audit support.

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• A bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, with strong technical accounting skills and an accounting certification (CA, CPA, or equivalent).
• Advanced Excel skills, with working knowledge of SAP/BW and CCH Tagetik finance tools highly desirable.
• Experience working with external auditors, including Big 4 audit experience, and exposure to Closure, SOX, Leases and the Aluminium business.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect financial information to business activities for insightful analysis and reporting.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with effective collaboration, a proactive approach, and the ability to work independently.

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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
• 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 and salary packaging options.
• Career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).
• Possible domestic relocation assistance.

Where you’ll be working

Perth, Western Australia offers a dynamic base for corporate and operational collaboration, with access to a strong professional community and lifestyle benefits.

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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 LGBTI+ 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.