Adviser Cost Control

Senior Advisor Cost Control

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

• 2 year Fixed-Term contract 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.

Some of the responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain project forecasts and financial reports

• Identify process improvement opportunities to enhance efficiency

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

• Assist in generating cost reports and tracking cost control curves

• Contribute to contingency planning and change management procedures

• Support risk identification and mitigation through Final Forecast Cost (FFC) updates

• Analyse cost variances and recommend corrective actions

• Ensure compliance with standardized processes, tools, and systems

• Manage relationships with internal and external cost control stakeholders

• Provide financial coordination across project tasks and phases

• Oversee third-party vendor and contractor cost management

• Assess financial impact of scope changes and update budgets accordingly

• Identify financial risks and propose mitigation strategies

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in financial management within large-scale multinational environments.

• Strong track record of managing costs and budgets, ideally in IT or ERP implementation projects.

• Excellent ability to analyze complex financial data and drive informed decisions.

• Solid understanding of core project management principles and practices.

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 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 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)

We are finding better ways to simplify our operations, expand our capability and improve productivity, to do this we are embarking on an exciting journey that will transition us to a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform moving from an old, outdated technology (currently RTBS) to a new digitally enabled S/4 Hana and application ecosystem.

An effective RTBS is a key enabler to Best Operator, given 30-60 per cent of our frontline time is spent in the system. To deliver this change we must ensure that we work closely with each of the Product Group’s (PGs) and Functions to modernise how we operate in the system. Consequently, this is not a technology led program, it is business led.

Where you’ll be working

The newly created ERP Implementation Program team within the PMO function will bring together a variety of specialist skillsets to shape our digital future and simplify, automate, modernise and improve our ways of working globally.

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 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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