Senior Advisor Integrated Carbon Planning

Senior Advisor - Integrated Carbon Planning

• Help drive our business toward a greener future
• Be part of a team delivering one of Rio Tinto’s strategic priorities
• Perth or Brisbane location

As one of the world’s largest industrial users of energy, Rio Tinto has a unique challenge in the energy transition. Rio Tinto Energy & Climate is a new global team focused on prioritising and accelerating our decarbonisation efforts to deliver on our climate commitments while ensuring our business is well positioned for the future low-carbon economy. Led by the Chief Decarbonisation Officer, the Energy & Climate team works collaboratively across the business to drive delivery of the Group climate strategy and address our key sources of carbon emissions

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

The newly established Decarbonisation Office (DO) is central to Rio Tinto’s decarbonisation investment decisions, responsible for interrogating projects and ultimately recommending and deploying the Group’s capital into its most attractive decarbonisation investments. The DO is also responsible for carbon accounting and providing senior leadership with advanced strategic insights.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor - Integrated Carbon Planning who will be the primary custodian for the Group’s abatement model and the foundation of the Group’s ’one source of truth’.

Reporting to Manager – Carbon Planning you will own, develop and maintain Rio Tinto’s central carbon forecasting and abatement model.

You will be responsible for:

• Owning Rio Tinto’s integrated carbon forecast model, used for a wide range of performance tracking purposes
• Consolidating, tracking and reconciling progress of the Global Decarbonisation Programs’ (GDP) abatement projects
• Generating Rio Tinto’s business as usual carbon forecasts for annual plan and long-term plan processes 
• Providing clear and unbiased insights into Rio Tinto’s central and risk adjusted delivery pathways
• Providing concise analysis into the cost and valuation tradeoffs of different carbon planning scenarios
• Co-ordinating with Manager Decarbonisation Investment to develop portfolio optimisation strategies for decarbonisation funding
• Providing oversight of abatement project data and reporting quality
• Providing key data inputs for reporting to the GDP delivery teams
• Supporting the development of strategies for Rio Tinto Offsets and Nature Solutions

About you

• A background in finance, project controls or data analysis
• Thorough and meticulous approach to model ownership
• Highly structured mindset with high attention to quality controls
• Extensive data management experience, including developing, overseeing, organising, storing, and analysing data and data systems
• Solid knowledge of carbon and valuation methodologies and principles
• Pro-active approach to modelling improvement and development of automation opportunities
• Ability to clearly articulate project performance variances
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment.
• 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.
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays).
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters.

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.

This role closes on Friday 28th April 2023. Rio Tinto reserves the right to change this date as required.