Analyst Finance Software Asset Management

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Position: Analyst Finance Software Asset Management

Contract length: 6+6 months

Purpose of the Role

The Finance Software Asset Management role is within Rio Tinto's Software Asset Management (SAM) service in the MBSSC. This role is responsible for ensuring adherence to our licensing contracts and entitlements, vendor liaison and negotiation in conjunction with RTP, including the day-to-day financial management of the SAM service and the maintenance of the software financial plan, forecast and business unit recoveries. The role will report to the MDC SAM Team Lead.​

Key Responsibilities

Software licensing and Advisory​

• Ensure compliance for our software asset agreements, through active management of entitlements and renewals process​
• Investigate and interpret software usage to ensure adherence to terms and conditions, advise of legal obligations and raise risks and issues with required and recommended actions​
• Provide subject matter expertise for license requirements, best practice procurement and ongoing license lifecycle management​
• Audit each software renewal and purchase request in line with our policies and procedures to ensure correct purchasing and entitlements​
• Plan and monitor the software portfolio to ensure it is correctly maintained including vendor liaison and negotiation, contract creation, budget control, reporting whilst recommending improved purchasing or usage solutions​
• Actively participate in the identification of optimization in Software agreements with the Business Partners​

Software Budget​

• Proactively monitor and analyze existing and future costs and work with the Finance team to ensure spend is within the set parameters whilst identifying cost reduction opportunities​
• Develop, with a high level of confidence, the annual financial forecast across hundreds of individual software renewals, compiling multiple pieces of evidence with a questioning mindset and a focus on continuous improvement​
• Identify and analyze trends in software purchasing and forecast impacts to budget and recharges and make recommendations for improvements and identify opportunities for cost savings ​
• Manage the numerous financial stakeholders throughout the global business and provide coaching and advice on budget planning and justify reasoning.​
• Maintain software budget, reconciliations, accruals, actuals versus forecast, recharges and advise of variances​

Software Recharges​

• Analyze, report and capture usage of applications to enable true and correct recharges for business units for a large software portfolio ensuring adherence to SAM procedures​
• Coach the broader software team, and develop procedures/work instructions to ensure ongoing software compliance and correct recharges​

Software Purchasing​

• Provide financial leadership and coaching for the broader software asset management team​
• Improve, with a view to automate existing financial processes​
• Seek alternate software supply arrangements with cost-savings in mind​
• Validate software license costs​
• Prepare and process purchases requisitions and manage invoicing queries​

Direction and Leadership:​

• Provide specialist financial skills to support Software Asset Management both at the team level and within RioTinto​
• Implement, refine and improve systems and processes for Rio Tinto in conjunction with peers​
• Support the team with appropriate financial procedures and standards​

Key Relationships

Internal:

• Manager, Software Asset Management –purchase approvals, escalation and leadership​
• MDC SAM Team Leader, direct manager, escalation and reporting​
• SAM Delivery Team ​
• Procurement – for new contracts, cost analysis, audit support and resolution of commercial issues​
• Finance – collaboration on the SAM Budget​
• RT Legal – audit support​
• Global Programme Services team – purchases​
• SAM Transformation Programme Manager –move project deliverables into operational support, provide and validate requirements​

External:

• Software publishers – new software requirements and software maintenance quotes​

Required Skills & Experience

- Background in Finance, and prior experience in a Finance Function​

- Strong English and Mongolian skills

- Excellent Excel skills. Training will be provided for SAP purchase requisition processing

- Experience typically achieved through Finance qualifications and at least 3-5 years relevant experience in large organizations.​

If you are interested in this role, please send your application to udval@scc.mn. For any questions, feel free to contact me at 9973-6353.

Required Documents:
CV
Cover Letter

Application Deadline: 13 November 2026