Senior Advisor - Business Analysis

• Excellent opportunity to provide financial support for a large/complex operation
• Work in a diverse, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment
• Permanent role based in Salt Lake City, Utah

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Advisor - Business Analysis to provide strategic advice and support to new technologies and growth for the Copper Group. You will be able to utilize a broad scope of your financial valuation skills, while building on your industry and business knowledge in order to create world-class strategies, integrated business plans and evaluate asset value and support project, commercial and operational investment decisions.

This role requires challenging the business while at the same time generating value-accretive ideas for investment. Reporting to the Manager - Business Analysis New Technology you will:

• Generate and evaluate business cases for investments proposals, commercial and business development opportunities by building and maintaining valuation models and associated business cases
• Work alongside knowledgeable teams such as the study teams, the operations team and the business development team to structure, develop and challenge investment proposals
• Supports the development of business cases for capital expenditure and project justifications, clearly communicating context and reasoning.
• Write investment committee papers, to present to the Rio Tinto senior management team
• Contribute to the strategy and planning process of Product Groups by conducting analysis, and providing updates on the valuation of assets
• Work and communicate to provide an understanding of critical aspects of the investment proposal and financial value and risk.
• Work with the Business Development team to develop underlying assumptions and create valuation models for growth opportunities being pursued.
• Assist the land team in executing their strategy to protect RTK's license to operate and increase value of the extensive land and water portfolio owned by RTK.
• Thoroughly analyse and test assumptions and project risks and uncertainties. Work to ensure that financial outcomes of investment proposals and outcomes are communicated.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business / Finance, or Economics
• At least 5+ years of experience in analytically demanding roles (e.g. engineering, investment banking, corporate finance, management consulting) including experience with financial valuation modelling;
• Excellent knowledge in financial modelling, with a strong understanding of valuation concepts (e.g. IRR, NPV)
• Excellent written and oral communication, with an ability to structure / synthetize key messages
• Effective at managing your time and at prioritizing across multiple files
• Strong interpersonal skills

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• M.B.A Degree
• Prior experience in mining and metals, oil and gas or other capital intensive heavy industry a plus (either directly or through professional services)

What we offer

We are committed to provide our employees what they deserve. Be recognized for your contributions, your way of thinking, and go home knowing you're helping the world to progress. Our leading rewards package includes:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Access to top tier health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• A 6% of eligible pay company contribution to save towards retirement
• A generous 401(k) match program (company match dollar per dollar up to 6% of your base pay) up to defined limits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program to purchase Rio Tinto stock including matching company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies to cover life's important moments (vacation, short-term sick leave, paid holidays, paid bereavement leave).
• Regional and national discounts program for a multitude of leisure purposes and products
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program for you and your family. This helps to address educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team of experts to support and work with you to explore your career goals

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 Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter, and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum, and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is one of the tops producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we value diversity and inclusiveness at our workplaces. We welcome applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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