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Rio Tinto named Canada’s Top 100 Employer & Canada’s Top Employer for Young People for 3 consecutive years
Get real work experience at one of the largest mining and metal companies in the world, focused on safety and inclusion
Work with the newest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change
Summer internship based in Kitimat, BC, one of our newest and most green aluminium smelting businesses.
Get real work experience at one of the largest mining and metal companies in the world, focused on safety and inclusion
Work with the newest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change
Summer internship based in Kitimat, BC, one of our newest and most green aluminium smelting businesses.
About the role
We are offering an internship opportunity in our finance team in Kitimat – BC at Rio Tinto Aluminium’s BC Works facility.
The Intern can be called to support in a number of tasks for which the finance team is accountable for:
Ensure that health and safety is the top priority by following policies and procedures and always acting in a safe manner
Perform analytical reviews to help understand the performance and cost drivers of the business and propose improvement strategies.
Interpret, simplify and communicate financial information across the site with clear objective of empowering people and developing / driving the business mindset in decision making
Perform certain accounting tasks
Focus on value creation and optimization opportunities and ensure initiatives are properly carried out
Coordinate reporting on cost management and value creation
Work alongside operational teams to help the site manage business performance: to assist in the plan execution while tracking against actual expenses; to identify threats and opportunities; and to offer guidance and stimulate ideas for forecasts
Analyse and interpret financial results to address the right levers for maximizing value
Prepare and review financial models to evaluate the business case for financial investments
Participate in budget setting and forecasting
Assist the company in targeting the most profitable initiatives to maximize value
Oversee compliance with internal financial controls, while maintaining high ethical standards
Your contribution
Third or fourth-year bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business, Finance, Accounting or any other related field
Good communication skills and ability to work in a team and independently.
Good computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Office and PowerPoint.
Integrity & Leadership skills.
Driver’s license
What we offer
A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
A competitive salary
An ambitious, exciting and rewarding experience
Opportunity to build relationships with the Rio Tinto team and community
A great chance to prepare yourself to join our Graduate Development Program
A relocation allowance and a premium are offered for students outside the region
About Rio Tinto
Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with
a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.
For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.
Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.
Where will you be working?
Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.
Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.
To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI
Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.
We are seeking to increase the diversity across our operations in order to improve equal opportunity outcomes for our employees and encourage female applicants to apply.
Please note, in order to be considered for this role you must answer all pre-screening questions.
All progress begins with pioneers – at Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
