Manager – Payroll Advisory

Payroll Advisory Manager, APAC – Employee Support & Payroll Services (ESPS)

• Safety and results-driven culture

• Inclusive global team

• Strategic payroll leadership

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

As Payroll Advisory Manager, APAC, you will play a critical role in ensuring the effective and efficient execution of ESPS processes. You will foster strong connections with stakeholders within and beyond ESPS, delivering exceptional experiences through clear communication, active engagement, and collaboration.

Your focus will be on continuous improvement, process integrity, robust controls, and compliance with legislative requirements. You will report to the Senior Manager, Payroll Advisory and work from our ESPS location in Perth, Australia.

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead a team across APAC locations, overseeing delivery partner activities for People Experience (PeX), recruitment, benefits, mobility, and tax.

• Build and maintain an engagement governance framework that streamlines stakeholder interactions and enhances the employee/leader experience.

• Resolve complex payroll matters promptly, keeping employee and leader experience central, and leveraging ESPS team expertise.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities and drive effective improvement initiatives with ESPS teams.

• Assess and schedule demand, changes, or initiatives requiring ESPS team support.

• Monitor legislative changes and ensure timely updates to payroll processes.

• Oversee successful implementation of legislative process changes.

• Communicate relevant business, process, and legislative changes to ESPS teams supporting APAC.

• Drive simplification, standardization, and automation of payroll processes.

• Conduct and review root cause investigations for strategic process issues, implementing corrective actions.

• Develop and implement solutions in response to audit recommendations.

What you’ll bring

• Subject matter expertise in employee data maintenance and payroll.

• Proven experience in process improvement and project management.

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-functional teams within a matrix environment.

• Change leadership and audit/compliance experience.

• Strong stakeholder management and business engagement skills.

• Ability to understand and represent the global end-user experience.

• Experience in process simplification, standardization, and roll-out.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills; flexible working style within a matrix team.

• Solid understanding of systems and processes relevant to payroll and their integration points.

• Knowledge of process design and improvement approaches in a global organization.

• Understanding of data privacy in business processes.

• Strategic thinking at both operating model and detailed process levels.

• Knowledge of role design, segregation of duties, and internal control requirements.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority.

• Competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees.

• Career development and education assistance to further your ambitions.

• Access to top-tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan.

• Wellbeing benefits and generous Rio Tinto employee share program.

• Employee Assistance Program and ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family.

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

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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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