Principal Advisor, Business Analysis (Investment Evaluation)

Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business

• Further sharpen your business partnering skills

• Be part of a group that is safety-driven and values inclusion

• Join an encouraging leadership group committed to your growth and development

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Business Analysis to join our Commercial Business Analysis team in Singapore. This role provides a great opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders and provide advice to the Buy, Sell, and Move teams within the Commercial organization and strategic insights into investment decisions to help shape the future for Rio Tinto.

Reporting to the General Manager, Finance Business Partners & Business Analysis, this role will:

• Provide independent, robust, and high-quality economic evaluation of proposed portfolio-level decisions and investment opportunities, taking into account risks and uncertainties.

• Influence key commercial decisions, including:

  • Sell activities, such as supporting the business case for material sales contracts or new sales strategies.

  • Move activities, such as supporting the business case for material move contracts or new move strategies, including climate-related decisions.

  • Buy activities, supporting the negotiation and execution of centrally managed purchases, such as heavy machinery equipment and fuel.

  • Commercial wide activities, such as evaluating and quantifying the benefit of downstream customer partnerships, including looking through the ESG lens.

• Support Commercial’s review and input into material capital investment decisions by the Group (working with other Business Analysis teams in Product Groups).

• Build and maintain effective financial models to assess and develop business cases to support potential commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives.

• Review submissions to the Commercial Investment Committee.

• Prepare and lead Commercial submissions to the Group Investment and Capital Committees.

About you

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

• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial and Product Groups.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, e.g., Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline.

• 10 years+ business analysis and commercial experience in natural resources/manufacturing/other process-driven industries.

• Energetic and driven, and able to work under pressure and meet multiple and competing deadlines.

• Demonstrated skills and/or experience in:

  • Financial evaluations to support investment decisions.

  • Financial modelling with a strong understanding of valuation concepts (e.g., NPV, IRR).

  • Critical thinking and reasoning.

  • Dealing with ambiguous and constantly changing situations.

  • Working in a global business across different geographies and with a variety of teams.

• Strong presentation and communication skills (oral and written) and ability to structure and present complex ideas and information in a simple, articulate, balanced, and persuasive way.

• Commercial negotiations experience and knowledge of commercial and business planning systems.

What we offer

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

• A full-time position working directly for Rio Tinto 

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an 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 customers’ needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality, cost, and capital expenditure.

Application Deadline: 25 July 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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