Senior Advisor, Business Analysis

Senior Advisor, Business Analysis

• Provide strategic insights into investment decisions to help shape the future for Rio Tinto
• Permanent opportunity, Brisbane based

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Advisor, Business Analysis to support the Senior Leadership Team by providing strategic insights into investment decisions. This role looks at a wide variety of functions including: Energy & Climate Change, Strategy, Exploration, Information Systems & Technology, Closure and Group Technical.

This is a great opportunity for an energetic and performance driven individual who is keen to work in a high performing team function and gain exposure to the Senior Leadership Team. Reporting to the Manager, Business Analysis, you will:

• Engage with Senior Leaders across the business to identify, advise and evaluate capital and commercial proposals to maximise value;
• Prepare and review business proposals to the Investment Committee and advise on relevant commercial risks and opportunities;
• Support planning and capital management processes, including capital prioritisation
• Become a trusted advisor to the Senior Leadership Team, influencing and advising on relevant commercial issues;
• Be courageous in the pursuit of innovative evaluation techniques to quantify risks and uncertainties using valuation models, screening tools, probabilistic tools and decision tree analysis in a fit-for-purpose manner;
• Apply commercial and corporate finance rigour to all business investment decisions

 What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Bachelor in Commerce, Engineering or Economics (or similar) is preferable but not essential.
• At least 3 years experience, with a demonstrated ability to work in a global business across organisational and geographical interfaces.
• Very strong analytical skills, including outstanding financial evaluation and modelling expertise.
• Proactive insight generation and an interest in challenging the status quo to find more effective ways of operating.
• Excellent communication skills to enable the presentation of complex information and analysis to a wide range of senior stakeholders across the Group.
• Strong leadership, management and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence and deliver superior results.

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

Where you will be working

The Business & Technology Support Business Analysis team reports through to the Group CFO. You will be working closely with your direct manager and the rest of the BA team in Brisbane. 

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.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.