Principal Advisor, Security Intelligence and Risk

Principal Advisor, Security Intelligence and Risk

• Join a leading global company
• Deliver insights that protect our people, assets, and company reputation from harm
• Help shape the strategic choices our business makes
• Interesting and varied role with a global remit - Perth or Brisbane based

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Security Intelligence and Risk to manage the collection and analysis of open domain information, threat and risk insights and internal incident data to develop strategic and tactical intelligence briefs in support of business operations and growth opportunities.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

This is a great opportunity for highly motivated and curious individuals to deliver insights that will directly help shape business decisions that play into Rio Tinto’s corporate and product group strategies and protect our people, assets, and company reputation from harm.

Reporting to the Practice Lead, Security Intelligence within the Group Security function, you will:

• Collect, gather and analyse open domain information to anticipate and mitigate the impacts of motivated/disruptive events targeting the business and through robust analysis of incident data, develop reporting to inform risk owners on security trends and insights
• Develop proactive and predictive data reporting and analytics
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to collect intelligence
• Produce analysis of threats to the business
• Develop country-level threat assessments in support of business growth opportunities
• Manage Group Security reporting requirements

What you’ll bring

We appreciate the successful candidate could come from a variety of backgrounds and role types that require attributes and skills such as tenacity, clarity of thought, discretion, advanced reporting/writing capability and speed, and ability to assess significant volumes of content. You'll also need to be confident working autonomously and using social media and open domain (online) information. As an example, you could come from investigative journalism, risk, or legal professions.

It's likely you’ll have an interest in politics and international relations. We also highly value intercultural understanding gained through international experience, as well as fluency in foreign languages. 

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’ll be working

Group Security is a key part of the Group HSES function tasked with the development and implementation of strategies to protect our people, assets and company reputation from harm. We do that using a highly skilled team of multi-skilled professionals to assess risk and implement strategy, policy and practice to best mitigate risk in a commercially viable manner.

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.