Senior Advisor – Transfer Pricing

Senior Advisor – Transfer Pricing

• Lead global transfer pricing compliance and reporting with a strong focus on automation and consistency.

• Drive key transfer pricing initiatives including documentation, audits, APAs/MAPs and annual true‑up processes.

• Brisbane or Perth, 12‑month fixed term contract

About the Role:

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor – Transfer Pricing to join our global transfer pricing team on a 12‑month contract, commencing immediately. In this role, you will support the management and improvement of transfer pricing compliance and reporting across the globe, with a strong focus on automation, standardisation and providing timely advice to our product groups as they grow across multiple regions.

You will work across a wide range of diverse projects and collaborate daily with colleagues across Australia, Singapore, Canada, London, Argentina and the United States. As part of a global team, some flexibility outside normal business hours will occasionally be required—balanced with our strong commitment to work/life flexibility.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. You will have the opportunity to grow and develop with access to leading expertise, meaningful work and a competitive, performance‑focused remuneration structure.

Reporting to the Manager – Tax (Australia) and working closely within our broader Tax community, you will be responsible for:

Responsibilities:

• Managing global transfer pricing compliance requirements, including:

  • Collecting information and preparing transfer pricing documentation

  • Assisting with local related-party reporting requirements

  • Coordinating benchmarking analyses

  • Working with external advisors and consultants as required

• Driving continuous improvement opportunities, particularly in automation of transfer pricing compliance and reporting processes

• Supporting the Group’s transfer pricing reporting obligations including updates to the Master File and preparation of the Country‑by‑Country Report

• Monitoring legislative changes and implementing best practice responses

• Assisting Transfer Pricing Managers with global advisory matters and audits

• Undertaking regular inter‑company transaction reviews

• Supporting project management and implementation of transfer pricing initiatives

• Performing annual true‑up analysis of transfer pricing charges and working with Finance to report outcomes in annual statutory accounts

• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders across Tax, Controllership, Legal, Treasury and Operations

• Supporting reorganisations, transactions, risk identification and optimisation opportunities

• Assisting with tax audits, APAs and MAP processes, including coordination with external service providers

• Managing interactions with external auditors and advisors on transfer pricing matters

About You:

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

• A strong commitment to safety—your own and your team’s

• Impeccable attention to detail and the ability to work accurately across all aspects of a task

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage priorities and deadlines

• Minimum 5 years’ transfer pricing experience within a consultancy or multinational organisation

• A professional accounting designation, Law degree, Economics/Finance qualification or equivalent

• Demonstrated experience in transfer pricing documentation and compliance

• Ability to extract, analyse and interpret data to provide commercially relevant recommendations

• Experience with accounting systems and inter‑company journals (TP adjustments) desirable

• Ability to manage multiple assignments with competing deadlines

• Proven ability to work collaboratively across cross‑functional and geographically dispersed teams

• Strong interest in automation and continuous improvement using tools such as Power BI

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience engaging with tax authorities and managing transfer pricing audits

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 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

• Company-provided insurance cover

• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options

• Career development & education assistance to support technical or leadership ambitions

• Ongoing access to family‑friendly health and wellbeing support

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts across banking, accommodation, vehicles, retail and more

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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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