Senior Adviser - Banking

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Advisor - Banking to join the Finance & Accounting Services organization. This role sits within the Banking Team Record-to-Report (R2R) function and is responsible for ensuring the integrity, control, reconciliation, accounting, and reporting of banking transactions across the Group Services Banking landscape.

The role operates as an individual contributor and plays a key part in delivering accurate bank accounting, maintaining a strong controls environment, supporting audits, driving process improvements, and partnering with stakeholders across Accounting, Treasury, AP, AR, Payroll, Controllership, and Banking Operations. Reporting to the Manager - Banking, this position is based in Gurugram, India.

About the Role

Bank Reconciliations, Clearings & Accounting

• Post Preparation, review and certify monthly bank reconciliations in BlackLine, ensuring all balances reconcile accurately between bank statements, SAP ledgers and reconciliation records.
• Perform daily monitoring of bank balances and ensure ledger balances accurately reflect banking activity.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks, ageing items and bank clearing account exceptions within agreed timelines.
• Perform root cause analysis on reconciling items and drive sustainable resolution of balance sheet risks.
• Ensure timely recording and accounting of banking transactions in SAP in accordance with accounting standards and company policies.
• Support recurring journal entries, GLSU uploads and related banking accounting activities.
• Coordinate month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities relating to cash and bank balances.
• Ensure accuracy of banking-related financial reporting and support reporting integrity objectives.

Controls, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with banking policies, SOX requirements, internal control frameworks and corporate governance standards.
• Maintain strong banking controls across reconciliation, certification and balance sheet governance processes.
• Identify control deficiencies, operational risks, process gaps and potential fraud indicators, recommending appropriate corrective actions.
• Support , Front end internal and external audit activities and provide required documentation, evidence and stakeholder coordination.
• Monitor compliance with banking procedures and ensure adherence to established control requirements.
• Support remediation and closure of audit findings and control improvement initiatives.
• Maintain complete and auditable records within BlackLine and related systems.

Banking Operations & Stakeholder Partnership

• Monitor and manage open items in bank clearing accounts and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution and clean accounting hygiene scorecard
• Partner with Accounting, AP, AR, Payroll, Treasury and Controllership teams to resolve banking related issues and improve end-to-end processes.
• Monitor ageing transactions and escalate unresolved items appropriately.
• Support business units and Group Services teams on reconciliation, accounting and banking queries.
• Ensure effective stakeholder communication and issue resolution across global locations and time zones.

Banking Technology & Transformation

• Support strategic banking and finance transformation initiatives, including:

• • BlackLine automation, certification and reconciliation enhancements.
  • Account reconciliation standardization and control optimization.
  • SAP search string enhancements and bank statement automation initiatives.
  • Host-to-Host (H2H) bank statement reporting improvements.
  • Bank account rationalization and regular accounting hygiene reviews.
  • Auto-certification and automated clearing initiatives.
  • Banking process simplification and digitization projects.

• Participate in Modern ERP and finance transformation programs across the banking scope.
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities through automation, standardization and enhanced controls.
• Collaborate with internal technology teams, financial systems teams and banking partners to implement process improvements.
• Participate and support other FSD and Group Services initiatives

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce or related discipline.
• CA Inter, CMA, M.Com, MBA Finance or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Professional accounting qualifications or progress towards qualification will be viewed favorably.

Experience

• 9 to 11+ years of experience in Banking, R2R, General Ledger, Cash Accounting, Bank Reconciliations or Financial Control environments.
• Strong experience managing high-volume bank reconciliation processes within a global organization.
• Experience supporting audit, compliance and control-intensive finance processes.
• Strong understanding of cash accounting, bank clearing, reconciliation and balance sheet management.

Systems & Technology

• Strong working knowledge of SAP ECC6 and SAP T Codes, SAP S/4HANA (preferred) and BlackLine.
• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging MT940 reporting, electronic banking platforms and bank connectivity solutions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with strong analytical capabilities.
• Experience with Power BI, automation tools, APIs and financial systems integrations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Teams and SharePoint.

Controls & Governance

• Strong understanding of SOX controls, audit requirements and internal control frameworks.
• Experience operating within a highly controlled global finance environment.
• Strong risk assessment and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to identify process and control improvement opportunities and influence outcomes through stakeholder engagement.

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Flexible shifts
• Continuous improvement mindset with demonstrated success in driving process optimization and banking transformation initiatives.

• Ability to guide and support team members through technical expertise

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.