Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Opportunity to showcase your experience
• Permanent role based in Brisbane

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Corporate Counsel based in Brisbane to work closely with Rio Tinto’s Corporate functions to safeguard the Group’s legal and financial position, improve legal performance and effectively manage legal risks and costs.

Reporting to the Chief Counsel, M&A and JVs, you will support the Corporate Legal team in the delivery of creative and pragmatic legal advice and collaborative support in a complex, fast-paced and challenging environment by:

• Providing corporate legal support on joint ventures, including shareholders documentation, governance matters and annual Rio Tinto joint venture compliance review.
• Providing corporate legal support on M&A transactions and restructuring, including transaction planning, transaction documentation drafting and review, document management and due diligence.
• Advising on growth and venture capital investments, including due diligence, review and drafting of transaction documentation and negotiations.
• Horizon-scanning and monitoring for risks and opportunities in corporate legal, M&A and joint venture matters.
• Capturing, sharing and leveraging learnings from corporate law matters across the Group.
• Supporting the Corporate Legal team in managing external law firm partnerships and in effective and efficient management of budget and resources.

What you will bring;

You are a trusted contributor with corporate legal experience (ideally, in a law firm with some prior in-house experience). You should also bring:

• Strong legal, analytical and project management skills, preferably with experience in M&A and/or venture capital investments.
• An understanding of financial, corporate legal and governance drivers in a multinational company.
• Willingness to engage with senior leaders and working collaboratively with their teams to meet shared business objectives.
• An ability to think laterally across different technical areas, to be open to ideas and other viewpoints, and to work with a team to find pragmatic and risk-based solutions to issues.
• Self-awareness and inter-personal skills to build key partnerships and relationships with both internal and external stakeholders of all levels.
• Care, courage and curiosity in everything you do.

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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards
• Career development and education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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 almost 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 and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.

Applications close on Friday 23 June 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.