Director Ethics & Compliance APAC

Director Ethics & Compliance APAC

• Be part of Rio Tinto a leading global mining organization

• Leadership role in Ethics and Compliance, located in Singapore, where you act as an expert and implement a holistic compliance program in accordance with global leading practices across the APAC regions

• Be a part of a strong and proactive team with an advanced work culture

About the role

This is a career-defining opportunity for an exceptional leader to manage a high-performing, diverse, and values-based Compliance team based across the APAC region. The key focus of the role is to coach, develop and lead a local team of governance professionals to provide compliance management to regional senior leadership.

The successful candidate will provide and assure an effective ethics and compliance program across the APAC region, ensuring that employees and third parties working on behalf of the business, conduct business in an ethical and compliant manner.

Reporting to the Rio Tinto Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, you will:

• Promote a culture of high integrity and ethical decision-making

• Oversee the operation of the compliance program across the APAC region relating to business integrity, data privacy, anti-trust and economic sanctions

• Provide compliance training on business integrity, including conflicts of interest and their management, anti-bribery and corruption, sponsorships and donations, benefits, fraud, and third-party risk management

• Provide compliance advice to support business decisions, community investments, and partnership agreements, including a review of governance structures and contractual arrangements

• Support the business in identifying and implementing mitigation of compliance related risks

• Liaise with the Group’s Business Conduct Office on whistleblower allegations and support business integrity related investigations across the region

• Maintain compliance risk assessments and monitor compliance program effectiveness to ensure the design and operation of the program remains aligned to mitigate current risks

• Liaise with the Rio Tinto Head of Data Governance & Privacy on Privacy issues and provide advice and support to the business to ensure alignment with Rio Tinto’s Data Privacy Standard, and applicable privacy laws

• Ensure controls to manage Economic Sanctions compliance are maintained and evolve to align with changes in Sanctions laws

• Prepare and present compliance reports on the effectiveness of the compliance program, key compliance risks/issues, whistleblower cases and compliance program KPIs to senior leadership

What you will bring:

• Degree or similar professional qualification in the field of Law, Compliance, Auditing, Risk Management or Finance

• Minimum 10-15 years’ experience in Compliance and Ethics, including management of a compliance team and reporting to senior leadership and governance bodies (e.g. Board audit committee or Executive Committee)

• Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance requirements across bribery and corruption, data privacy, economic sanctions, anti-trust and whistleblowing

• Experience maintaining operating a compliance program including conducting risk assessments, maintaining policies and standards, due diligence, implementing and monitoring compliance related controls and delivering compliance training and awareness campaigns

• Ability to present, communicate and influence effectively with stakeholders at all levels in the organisation

• Proven experience interfacing with cross-functional teams and across multiple jurisdictions

• Strong analytical mindset, project management skills, and self-motivated with high energy and personal integrity

It is also beneficial if you have:

• Experience in working globally across diverse cultures

• Previous experience working with multiple stakeholders/ management across multiple regions and time-zones

What we offer

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

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

• Comprehensive medical benefits including health insurance for employees and immediate family

• Attractive share ownership plan

• Company provided insurance cover

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions

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

Where you will be working

Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto’s assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customer’s needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality,cost and capital expenditure.

Application Deadline: 6th June 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions

 Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.”

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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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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