Senior Advisor Business Analysis

• Outstanding opportunity for a strategic thinker with a creative mindset
• A global business, offering career opportunities & ongoing training and development
• Permanent employment in Brisbane, with a huge range of benefits

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Business Analysis, to join the Copper Business Analysis team. We're a dynamic, focused advisory function and key contributor to the strategic direction of Rio Tinto. Our highly capable independent professionals provide insightful and timely commercial advice and analytical support to facilitate well-informed decisions and create value to the Copper (RTC) portfolio. We provide strategic insights, with support to the Group Investment Committee; overall Business strategy and Plan financial submissions.

The role exists to identify value improvement opportunities through rigorous analysis of: the business; market; and, investment evaluation as part of RTC corporate level decision making. The main areas of focus are:

• support key decisions underpinning the Oyu Tolgoi growth asset; and
• consolidate the RTC portfolio asset valuation and articulate the group growth story

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.

Reporting to the Manager, Business Analysis and working in a collaborative community, a challenging and exciting environment, and a diverse team, you will:

• Assess, value and influence major investment proposals, including preparing proposals for the Investment Committee and Board
• Engage with the business to assess the financial viability and evaluate projects, using financial modelling you will understand key drivers to optimise project value
• Define assumptions for analysis of investments, acquisitions or divestitures
• Participate in the development of long-range financial forecasts and related budgets, considering alternative scenarios and economic prospects
• Review and provide recommendations on capital expenditure applications, contracts, major operating cost decisions and post investment reviews
• Provide commercial and analytical support to the operations leadership team
• Undertake project work designed to identify opportunities for continuous improvement

What you'll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications, in Business, Economics or Engineering is essential. An MBA or other relevant post graduate qualification is highly desirable
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in commercial and operational roles, with previous experience in mining and resource industries highly desirable
• Demonstrated ability to work in a global business across organizational and geographical interfaces
• Outstanding financial evaluation and modelling expertise, including high levels of competence with MS Excel
• Experience in stakeholder engagement and effective communication skills

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
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 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)
• Relocation packages available

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

Our Rio Tinto Copper & Diamonds group has world-class operations in Australia, Canada, Mongolia, Chile, and the US. Our operations around the world are at various stages in the mining lifecycle, from exploration to rehabilitation. At each of our operations, we use leading-edge technologies that drive safe, efficient and productive methods of extracting, processing and refining copper and diamonds, supplying customers around the world. Our two copper mines in the US and Mongolia became the world's first producers to be awarded the Copper Mark - the industry's independent assurance programme verifying the copper is responsibly produced.

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.

Applications close on 24 April 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)