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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.\nBased 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.\nKey accountabilities\nAs an individual contributor, you will take ownership of your assigned scope, exercise judgement within your authority and deliver through the following accountabilities.\n1. Independent close delivery and accounting integrity\nIndependently 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.\nPrepare and post journal entries, accruals, and adjustments in SAP and Tagetik, with supporting calculations and documentation, ensuring complete and accurate financial records.\nPerform quality checks on your own work before submission. Where formally delegated, review work prepared by others.\nMaintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, substantiate balances with supporting evidence and investigate reconciling items through to resolution.\nPerform intercompany reconciliations, resolve discrepancies with counterparties and coordinate accurate and timely settlement of intercompany transactions.\n2. Financial reporting and analysis\nPrepare 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.\n3. Financial controls and audit support\nPerform assigned key controls, retain complete evidence, investigate exceptions, and resolve or escalate control failures within agreed timelines.\nSupport remediation of control deficiencies and ensure agreed corrective actions are completed and documented.\nCollaborate with internal and external auditors, participate in audit reviews and provide documentation and explanations to demonstrate compliance with financial controls.\n4. Cross-team delivery and communication\nBuild constructive relationships across finance, operations and management to gather financial data, resolve queries and support business initiatives.\nAgree required inputs, responsibilities, and deadlines with relevant teams, follow up on commitments, and coordinate the resolution of dependencies to achieve close and reporting outcomes.\n\nMonitor progress, communicate blockers early, and promptly escalate unresolved issues or risks to accuracy and deadlines to the Senior Advisor.\n5. Process improvement and documentation\nIdentify and implement process improvements and best practices to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness.\nMaintain and continuously update the current process documentation in the Global Process Library.\nThe expertise that drives excellence\nQualifications\nCA, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification, with strong accounting knowledge and a sound understanding of accounting and finance concepts.\nRelevant experience\n6-9 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.\nExperience 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.\nSystems and technical skills\nStrong SAP FI/CO skills are mandatory. Experience with SAP S/4HANA is preferred.\nExperience with Tagetik or a similar consolidation tool and Blackline or a similar reconciliation tool.\nStrong Excel skills are required. Experience with Power BI, Power Apps, Microsoft Lists and Power Query is preferred.\nExperience developing reports using Power Query or supporting automation and data integration through APIs or database connections would be an advantage.\nProfessional capabilities\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to define business problems and identify appropriate operational or process solutions.\nExcellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.\nA business improvement mindset and the skills to translate ideas into practical improvements.\nAbility to adapt to change, work autonomously and contribute constructively as part of a team.\nAbout Rio Tinto\nRio 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.\nWe 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. 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