About the role

• Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
• We are looking for an Advisor – Finance to be responsible for supporting our Exploration Africa operations with timely and accurate financial reports, and analyses, in accordance with IFRS standards and Rio Tinto policies.
• Reporting to the Finance Business Partner (Rio Tinto Exploration Africa) and working in a collaborative community within the business, you will be responsible for:
• Managing and partnering with finance service providers to ensure adherence to Rio Tinto standards and principles, implement robust processes, oversee management reports, respective journals, and month-end processes.
• Delivery of financial accounting processes throughout the monthly cycle; review of journals, reconciliations, and working papers prepared by local finance and tax service providers.
• Review and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results for external reporting.
• Ensure correct and accurate reporting of all leases, in line with IFRS16.
• Partner with exploration business leaders during the development of the annual plan and forecasting; ensure accurate capturing and reconciliation of operational plans into planning and finance applications.
• Close partnering with outsource providers to ensure tax compliance and timely submissions of all monthly, annual, and ad-hoc tax returns (including but not limited to corporate tax, VAT and WHT).
• Partner with Closing & Reporting (C&R) and Controllership teams to enhance financial services provided to the business.
• Ensure compliance with adequate internal controls SOX standard and Rio Tinto’s accounting policies.
• Review statutory financials and tax computations.
• Lead & manage the statutory audits.
• Support other internal and external audits.
• Support the Africa – Eurasia Finance Business Partner team to standardize and optimise finance processes.
• Manage requests to/from various stakeholders.
• Review and approve vendor payments.
• Support ad hoc projects or initiatives.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor and/or professional qualification e.g, ACA, CPA, CIMA
• 2 years + finance, accounting, and tax experience within a global organization
• Experience effectively managing and influencing a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Analytical and strategic forward-thinker
• Demonstrated leadership abilities with the capacity to work autonomously.
• Expertise across a full range of standard business and finance tools (SAP, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
• Strong capability to effectively prioritize and possess excellent organizational skills.