Senior Advisor - Capital Portfolio and Performance

Senior Advisor - Capital Portfolio and Performance

• Critical member of the Finance team
• Collaborate, integrate and join the dots to drive improvements in capital portfolio performance
• Progress your career, think ahead and be as creative as you like

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

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.

Key aspects of this role:

• Capital performance reporting and insights on overall investment portfolio
• Govern the single source of truth for capital portfolio management, including working with stakeholders to ensure accurate forecasting to support timely decisions at portfolio level
• Provide an independent lens of capital efficiency, portfolio intensity, challenge assumptions and governance

As a critical member of the Finance team, you will be central to supporting effective portfolio management:

• Planning: Coordinate with Business Analysis, Sustaining Capital, Project Delivery Groups to run capital planning processes including portfolio prioritisation, annual budget and ongoing forecasting processes
• Reimagine the governance process: People, process and systems to ensure transparency in what we’re spending, and how effective that investment is at portfolio level
• Engagement and collaboration: Work closely with Divisional teams to review and prioritise inputs impacting overall capital portfolio
• Benchmarking: Own and develop driver-based models to benchmark capital investment across the portfolio to support all planning horizons (connection between long-term plans and execution windows)
• Prioritisation: Develop project prioritisation and decision-making tools to improve portfolio maturity
• Effectiveness and Efficiency: Identify and implement initiatives and capital metrics to drive improvement in capital efficiency and productivity

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Commercial, Engineering or similar backgrounds
• Strong operational and/or financial background with ability to work through complex issues
• Courage to challenge the status quo with clear, data backed, reasoning
• Project management or Financial Management experience across varying work fronts and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience working in a planning, governance, business services, strategy, investment evaluation, business development or portfolio management role
• A passion for continuous improvement, personal development and a continuous improvement mindset

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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.

Where you’ll be working

This role is based in Perth, at our head office in Central Park, and working Monday to Friday. We want you to have a great work/life balance, so the days, hours, location of work are flexible (including working from home). You may be required to travel to the Pilbara to support our customers on an as required basis.

Every Voice Matters

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 22^nd December 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).