Senior Specialist Cost Control

• Drive smart budgeting and forecasting to keep projects financially on track.

•  Based in Brisbane or Perth

• Partner with key players to power financial success and streamline delivery.

About this role

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Cost Control to join our Modern ERP Program.

Responsible for ensuring project financial performance by managing budgets, forecasts, and cost controls. This includes monitoring variances, supporting change and risk management, and allocating resources effectively. The role also involves producing financial reports, liaising with stakeholders and vendors, and ensuring compliance with standardized systems and procedures.

An exciting chance to shape best practices and lead the way as Rio Tinto launches its global Modern ERP program—an impactful and rewarding opportunity to make your mark.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain project forecasts, budgets, and financial reports

• Support cost control structures, including budgeting and cost centre allocation

• Monitor and analyse cost variances, recommending corrective actions

• Generate and maintain cost reports, cost curves, and financial dashboards

• Support Final Forecast Cost (FFC) updates, including risk and contingency inputs

• Assess the financial impact of scope changes and update forecasts and budgets

• Oversee third‑party vendor and contractor cost management

• Ensure compliance with standardised financial processes, tools, and systems

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in financial management within large, complex, multinational environments

• Demonstrated ability to manage costs and budgets, ideally within IT or ERP programs

• Strong capability to analyse complex financial data and drive informed decisions

• Solid understanding of project management principles and financial controls

• Experience supporting forecasting, cost reporting, and variance analysis

• Strong stakeholder management skills across internal and external partners

• High attention to detail with strong governance and compliance focus

• A proactive mindset with the ability to identify risks and improvement opportunities

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 Fixed Term 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)

Where you’ll be working

You’ll join the Modern ERP Program within our Group Finance function — a multi‑disciplinary team bringing together technology, process, data and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We’re modernising a 20‑year‑old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and innovation.

 This work will make it easier for people across our global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on the work that really matters. By simplifying and digitising how the organisation runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision‑making and AI‑enabled transformation across the business

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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 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

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.

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