Principal Adviser – Performance Reporting & Analytics

Brisbane | Perth

• Join a safety-driven and inclusive Finance Business Performance Management team delivering digital solutions

• Influence how performance reporting and analytics supports decision-making across the business

• Brisban or Perth based role with flexible working arrangements available

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Adviser to support the delivery of performance reporting and analytics solutions within our Finance Domain – Business Performance Management (BPM) stream, helping the business make better, faster decisions through trusted insights.

This is a great opportunity for a collaborative, adaptable finance professional who enjoys working across stakeholders and technology-enabled solutions to improve business performance outcomes.

Reporting to the hiring leader and working in a collaborative, agile environment within the Finance Domain – BPM team, you will be:

• Partnering with stakeholders to understand performance reporting and analytics requirements

• Translating business needs into scalable reporting, analytics and performance management solutions

• Supporting the transition to evolving finance and planning platforms and ensuring solutions are embedded

• Providing analysis and insight that improves decision-making and performance outcomes

• Contributing to governance, data integrity and disciplined reporting practices

• Driving continuous improvement, standardisation and scalability of reporting processes and outputs

• Collaborating effectively across a globally distributed team and agile ways of working

• Working with internal and external partners to support delivery and adoption

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Experience in management accounting / finance with strong capability in performance reporting and analytics

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and data visualisation/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI or similar)

• Experience working with ERP / finance platforms (SAP experience is highly regarded) and strong data fluency

• Strong business partnering and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts

• A collaborative, agile mindset with sound judgement handling sensitive data and a focus on customer value

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)

• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

You will be part of the Finance Domain – BPM stream, focused on delivering performance management solutions that enable insight-driven decision-making. You’ll work closely with a globally distributed team and a broad stakeholder network to embed value from reporting and analytics outcomes. This role can be based in Brisbane or Perth, Australia.

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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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