Principal Adviser Project Delivery

• Lead a critical Finance Readiness workstream supporting Rio Tinto's global SAP S/4HANA transformation.

• Drive financial reporting readiness, governance and assurance activities ahead of ERP go-live.

• Partner with Finance, Data, Testing and Program teams to deliver confident and compliant reporting outcomes.

• 12+ month engagement

About the Role

Join our Modern ERP Program and play a critical role in establishing and leading the Financial Reporting Readiness workstream. This newly formed function is responsible for ensuring Rio Tinto is ready from a financial reporting perspective as we transition to SAP S/4HANA.

Working across Finance, Data, Testing and Functional workstreams, you'll coordinate readiness activities, monitor progress against key stage gates, identify risks and dependencies, and provide leadership assurance that reporting outcomes are on track for deployment. This role is ideal for an experienced delivery professional who understands finance transformation, ERP implementations and the importance of governance in managing material business risk.

What You'll Be Doing

• Project manage and lead delivery across the Financial Reporting Readiness and Finance Data workstreams within Rio Tinto's Modern ERP Program.

• Support the Functional Lead in developing and executing readiness plans that validate financial reporting outcomes ahead of go-live.

• Coordinate reporting-related testing, data validation and business readiness activities across multiple workstreams.

• Partner with Functional Leads, Finance SMEs and Program stakeholders to identify risks, dependencies and delivery blockers.

• Drive governance, reporting and assurance activities to provide confidence that financial reporting requirements are being met.

• Monitor delivery progress against key stage gates and readiness milestones.

• Facilitate escalation and resolution of issues that may impact reporting outcomes.

• Produce governance artefacts, status reporting and executive-level updates that support informed decision making.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience delivering Finance, ERP, Financial Reporting or large-scale business transformation initiatives.

• Strong understanding of financial reporting processes, controls and governance frameworks.

• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations, ERP transformations or finance system modernisation programs.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex risks, dependencies and cross-functional delivery activities.

• Experience coordinating testing, data validation and business readiness activities.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across Finance and Technology functions.

• Excellent planning, scheduling and delivery management capability.

• A collaborative and outcomes-focused approach with the ability to bring multiple teams together to achieve program objectives.

What We Offer

• Attractive compensation aligned to the specialist nature and impact of the role.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment.

• Career development to further your ambitions.

• Ongoing wellbeing support.

• Opportunity to shape a newly established workstream within one of Rio Tinto's most significant transformation programs.

• Direct involvement in ensuring successful financial reporting outcomes for a global SAP S/4HANA deployment.

Where You'll Be Working

You’ll join the Modern ERP Program within our Group Finance function — a multi‑disciplinary team bringing together technology, process, data and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We’re modernising a 20‑year‑old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and innovation.

 This work will make it easier for people across our global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on the work that really matters. By simplifying and digitising how the organisation runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision‑making and AI‑enabled transformation across the business

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About Rio TintoRio 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 InclusionAt Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 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.