Advisor IS&T Assurance – Perth, Australia

Advisor IS&T Assurance – Perth, Australia

• Commitment to partnering with candour, courage, and customer mindset
• Innovation mindset to continually pursue better ways to help IS&T succeed
• Underlying commitment to Rio Tinto values & behaviours
• Permanent position based in Perth, Australia

About the role

We are looking for an Advisor IS&T Assurance to provide assurance and advisory activities that contribute to the improvement of IS&Ts delivery capability.

As the preferred applicant you will identify insights and opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness of IS&Ts operations, services to the business, assets and compliance obligations with company policies and regulations.

Work closely with broader Cyber governance team, this role is a trusted and objective partner, commit to delivering with agile methods, maintain strong relationships with the broader risk, assurance and compliance communities across Rio Tinto.

Key accountabilities of the role

IS&T Assurance Partnering

Coordination and delivery of IS&T’s assurance activities in alignment with Rio Tinto’s “three lines of defence” model, supporting the IS&T SLT to maintain confidence in the operation of controls supporting critical risks, through:

• Build trust within the Rio Tinto business by coaching the 1st line of defence to improve effectiveness of the IS&T first line function.
• Collaborate with the broader Cyber Security function to help collectively uplift control performance across IS&T
• Defining and applying IS&T’s control framework.

IS&T Assurance Delivery

Support the coordination and delivery of IS&T’s assurance programme, through:

• Support the execution and delivery of risk and assurance reviews and activities across the IS&T environment, with the objective of measuring and reporting of risk and control effectiveness against applicable frameworks and standards such as the IS&T Controls Framework.
• Providing deep insights to our leaders around critical control performance through leveraging of analytics, intelligence, metrics and reporting to help drive successful outcomes
• Engaging on behalf of IS&T to communicate, develop and foster strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the broader RT Function groups and Product group liaisons, such as Ethics & Integrity, Group Internal Audit, and other Rio Tinto functions to support required audit processes across IS&T.
• Support uplifting control performance within IS&T Technology Platforms in particular, through embedding through compliance against IS&T’s technology control frameworks (NIST, GPICS), and maturing first-line assurance in partnership with the key service partners
• Improve the effectiveness of action management within IS&T to ensure findings are implemented in a timely manner and control improvements are embedded and able to be sustained
• Keep current with industry trends and available technologies to understand and support automation and innovation related to IT risk, control, and compliance operating models.

About you

Leadership

Ability to deliver with high personal standards and integrity, and in a highly deadline driven environment.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with multi-disciplinary project teams, and lead and influence others.

A pioneering mind-set that is openminded to non-traditional audit and assurance approaches that focus more on targeted risked based activities.

Ability to tackle multiple priorities/projects simultaneously, including the ability to nurture relationships with stakeholders and resolve challenging issues.

Technical

Over 4 years of experience in a GRC (IT audit, Cyber security reviews, Assurance review) or similar role within a large enterprise, or equivalent professional services experience in an IT context 

Demonstrated mature and practical understanding of risk and assurance frameworks

Practical understanding of Information Security frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001 etc.

Relevant tertiary qualification, and / or professional certifications (CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP).

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 you will be working

Rio Tinto IS&T operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.