Adviser - Closing & Reporting

Advisor - Closing & Reporting, Finance & Accounting Services

Employment Type: Permanent | Location: Gurugram

Shifts: Day/ Night - shift allocation determined by business requirements and the time zones supported.

Reporting line: Senior Advisor, Closing & Reporting

Join our global Closing and Reporting team and build your finance career through exposure to international operations and an evolving digital finance environment. As an Advisor within Finance Service Delivery, you will take end-to-end accountability for the quality and timely delivery of assigned close and reporting scope, independently resolving non-routine accounting and process issues, coordinating dependencies across teams, and applying judgement within delegated authority.

Based in Gurugram, you will support global operations across different time zones. You must be flexible to work in either a day or a night shift, with shift allocation determined by business requirements and the time zones supported. You will bring strong stakeholder engagement and compliance skills, enthusiasm for your work, and the agility to respond to a rapidly evolving business environment.

Key accountabilities

As an individual contributor, you will take ownership of your assigned scope, exercise judgement within your authority and deliver through the following accountabilities.

1. Independent close delivery and accounting integrity

• Independently plan, coordinate and deliver assigned month-end, quarter-end and year-end closing scope within the agreed close calendar, taking accountability for completeness, accuracy and timely delivery.
• Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, and adjustments in SAP and Tagetik, with supporting calculations and documentation, ensuring complete and accurate financial records.
• Perform quality checks on your own work before submission. Where formally delegated, review work prepared by others.
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, substantiate balances with supporting evidence and investigate reconciling items through to resolution.
• Perform intercompany reconciliations, resolve discrepancies with counterparties and coordinate accurate and timely settlement of intercompany transactions.

2. Financial reporting and analysis

• Prepare and analyse assigned financial reports, including balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash flow statements, and variance analysis, ensuring accuracy and compliance with established accounting standards and regulatory requirements.

3. Financial controls and audit support

• Perform assigned key controls, retain complete evidence, investigate exceptions, and resolve or escalate control failures within agreed timelines.
• Support remediation of control deficiencies and ensure agreed corrective actions are completed and documented.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors, participate in audit reviews and provide documentation and explanations to demonstrate compliance with financial controls.

4. Cross-team delivery and communication

• Build constructive relationships across finance, operations and management to gather financial data, resolve queries and support business initiatives.
• Agree required inputs, responsibilities, and deadlines with relevant teams, follow up on commitments, and coordinate the resolution of dependencies to achieve close and reporting outcomes.
• Monitor progress, communicate blockers early, and promptly escalate unresolved issues or risks to accuracy and deadlines to the Senior Advisor.

5. Process improvement and documentation

• Identify and implement process improvements and best practices to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Maintain and continuously update the current process documentation in the Global Process Library.

The expertise that drives excellence

Qualifications

• CA, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification, with strong accounting knowledge and a sound understanding of accounting and finance concepts.

Relevant experience

• 6-9 years of relevant accounting and reporting experience, with demonstrated experience independently delivering month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities, maintaining accounting integrity, resolving non-routine accounting and reconciliation issues, and coordinating inputs and dependencies across teams.
• Experience working within a large or complex organisation or finance shared services environment, with a good understanding of end-to-end finance processes and their interdependencies.

Systems and technical skills

• Strong SAP FI/CO skills are mandatory. Experience with SAP S/4HANA is preferred.
• Experience with Tagetik or a similar consolidation tool and Blackline or a similar reconciliation tool.
• Strong Excel skills are required. Experience with Power BI, Power Apps, Microsoft Lists and Power Query is preferred.
• Experience developing reports using Power Query or supporting automation and data integration through APIs or database connections would be an advantage.

Professional capabilities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to define business problems and identify appropriate operational or process solutions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• A business improvement mindset and the skills to translate ideas into practical improvements.
• Ability to adapt to change, work autonomously and contribute constructively as part of a team.

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 Indigenous Peoples, 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. 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.