Principal Adviser – Corporate Reporting 

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Join a leading global company
• Permanent role based in London

About the role

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Principal Adviser – Corporate Reporting to lead our Group’s external climate reporting and disclosures. This is a critical leadership role with end-to-end responsibility for the strategy, preparation, assurance, and continuous improvement of our climate reporting — including the Annual Report, Climate Change Report, and other external disclosures.

This is a great opportunity for an individual who is strategic and influential to shape the success of this team.

In this role, you’ll be Rio Tinto’s subject matter expert in climate reporting, ensuring our disclosures not only comply with but stay ahead of current and emerging global standards including TCFD, ISSB (incl. UK SRS and ASRS), CSRD and SEC. You'll work directly with senior leadership, including from time-to-time members of the Executive Committee (ExCo), to drive transparency, integrity, and thought leadership in climate communication.

Reporting to the Manager Portfolio Performance and Reporting, and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Own and lead the Group’s climate-related reporting strategy and execution, ensuring alignment with global regulatory requirements and internal governance
• Act as the primary contact to senior stakeholders, providing expert guidance and insight on all climate reporting matters
• Drive the external assurance process for climate-related financial disclosures, ensuring accuracy, transparency and accountability
• Proactively monitor evolving regulatory, market and assurance requirements to inform and shape Rio Tinto’s climate reporting and assurance strategy, ensuring it remains robust, forward-looking and aligned with global best practice
• Collaborate across functions to establish clear processes and capture the necessary fata to support year-end climate disclosures, ensuring integration with broader sustainability and financial reporting requirements, including TNFD, CSRD and investor benchmarks

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Deep technical expertise in climate and ESG reporting frameworks, standards and emerging regulatory requirements
• Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholders, with the ability to influence and advise senior executives, including from time-to-time Board and ExCo
• Experience managing or supporting external assurance of climate and ESG disclosures, with a strong understanding of assurance standards and expectations
• Strong leadership, project management, communication and analytical skills with a passion for precision and impact
• A proactive and solutions-oriented mindset with a drive for continuous improvement and innovation
• Alignment to Rio Tinto values of courage, care and curiosity

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 salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees  
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions 
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan 
• Wellbeing benefits 
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave) 
   

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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