Reporting & Governance Manager

Reporting & Governance Manager

• Be a part of capable and supportive global team with a flexible and caring work culture
• Be part of a global mining organisation where everyone is valued and respected
• Permanent role based in Brisbane, Perth, London or Montreal

About the role

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

In this newly created role reporting to the Chief Business Conduct Officer, you will be responsible for consistent delivery of detailed and innovative reporting across our business, identifying trends, emerging issues and organisational factors enabling the business to understand, address and eradicate misconduct. You will lead a small team which will identify evolving societal expectations and emerging issues that impact the BCO and other areas of Rio Tinto as they relate to harmful and disrespectful behaviours and other misconduct.

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

• Leading and developing the Reporting & Governance team members, including Ethical Strategist and Change Lead
• Ownership of the BCO Reporting Protocol and responsible for implementation and continuous improvement. Including preparation of draft Board and ExCo papers.
• Allocation and oversight of Triage & Assessment team reporting responsibilities.
• Collaborating effectively with a variety of internal stakeholders within our business units, product groups and functions in relation to reporting data, trends, organisational factors and emerging issues, with a focus on continuous improvement and providing information that assists the business to eliminate misconduct.
• Develop strategic advice and initiatives to influence continuous improvement of not only BCO response mechanisms as they relate to various forms of misconduct (both interpersonal and Business Integrity) but also advice/initiatives to influence Group wide policy and controls.
• Support with risk management activities of BCO including risk/impact assessments, control design/ implementation and other related risk/governance/assurance work (for example will need to assist in managing BCO’s participation in internal/external assurance/audit processes.
• Collaborate closely with Comms to design/implement strategic communications.
• Conceptualise and establish key projects so that Rio’s response to misconduct is world’s leading practice and promotes a caring, people centered approach.
• Work effectively with other members of the Business Conduct Office adopting a one team approach, to continually improve and deliver best practice processes
• Manage setting expectations and reviewing performance of external service providers, negotiating and monitoring spend, standardising letters of engagement and maintaining a budget
• Ensure that information and reports that are produced by BCO comply with local legal requirements including whistleblower legislation
• Responsible to ensure the BCO framework, systems and processes meet and exceed best practice including identifying and ensuring evolving societal expectations are incorporated into BCO framework, systems and processes. Responsible for design and implementation of response systems and processes to reflect changing best practice and societal expectations.
• Responsible for ensuring accuracy and completeness of data generated and/or captured by the BCO
• Responsible for working with product group and functional stakeholders to synthesis data capture and reporting and develop/implement on complete, consistent and accurate central source of data.
• Responsible for identifying opportunities to drive change as it relates to responding to misconduct.
• The delivery of measurable outcomes and improvements

 About you

To succeed in this role, it is preferred that you will have:

• Degree level and background in either law, forensic accounting, business analytics, finance or auditing
• Significant proven experience in report writing and analytical skills
• Policy development skills
• Ability to drive change and rapidly respond to changing public sentiment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of internal risk and control frameworks
• Ability to synthesise and evaluate large volumes of data in an efficient and organised manner
• Excellent time management and record keeping

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and 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 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)

Where you will be working

You will be part of a global team forming the Rio Tinto Business Conduct Office. The mission of the Business Conduct Office is to provide an effective business integrity compliance program across the Rio Tinto Group to ensure all employees and third parties working on behalf of Rio Tinto, conduct business in an ethical and compliant manner within all countries where we operate.

Complying with Rio Tinto’s code of conduct (The Way We Work), policies and standards as they relate to business integrity and workplace conduct are key priorities of the team. The team also has responsibility for Rio Tinto’s Whistleblower program known as myVoice and the continued development of the investigations process including training.

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.

Every voice matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from diverse 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 valued individuals.

Applications close on Friday 4 November 2022 (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.