Manager Transfer Pricing

Rio Tinto; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive medical benefits

Share ownership plan

Insurance cover

Salary packaging options

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Manager Transfer Pricing to provide high-quality transfer pricing advisory support across Rio Tinto’s global operations. You will work with regional tax teams and stakeholders to deliver robust, governance-aligned outcomes.

Reporting to the General Manager Tax Global Advisory, you will lead cross-border TP advice, manage APAs/MAPs, monitor policy changes and ensure strong documentation and year-end processes while collaborating with a global transfer pricing team.

Qualifications

• Significant transfer pricing advisory experience gained within a professional services firm, multinational organisation, or both.
• Deep technical expertise in transfer pricing, including complex cross-border arrangements, strategic projects and business change.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, practical recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and build trusted relationships across global and matrixed environments.
• A pragmatic and risk-based approach, balancing technical quality, governance, compliance and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide transfer pricing advisory support across a diverse portfolio of cross-border arrangements, business initiatives and jurisdictions.
• Deliver practical and commercially grounded transfer pricing advice to product groups and broader business stakeholders.
• Lead and/or support APAs, MAPs and tax authority engagements.
• Monitor legislative and policy developments and translate impacts into practical business responses.
• Work with the transfer pricing compliance team and regional tax teams on documentation, reporting and year-end processes.
• Identify and manage transfer pricing risks in line with Rio Tinto’s tax policy and governance frameworks.
• Build trusted relationships across Tax, Finance and operational stakeholders to influence decision‑making and deliver governance aligned outcomes.

Skills

Transfer pricing advisory

Stakeholder influence

Cross-border TP

Governance & compliance

Commercial acumen

Job description

As a key member of Rio Tinto’s globally connected tax team, you will gain exposure to strategic transfer pricing advisory, governance, tax authority engagement and continuous improvement initiatives

Frontline engagement with key stakeholders inside and outside of the business

Brisbane or Perth based opportunity with flexible ways of working and meaningful exposure to senior stakeholders worldwide

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 Manager Transfer Pricing to provide high-quality transfer pricing advisory support across Rio Tinto’s global operations.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced transfer pricing professional with strong commercial acumen and who enjoys partnering with stakeholders across the business in multiple jurisdictions. You will work closely with regional tax teams, various internal and external stakeholders and the transfer pricing compliance team to deliver technically robust, commercially practical and governance-aligned outcomes.

Reporting to the General Manager Tax Global Advisory and working within Rio Tinto’s global transfer pricing advisory team, you will:

• Provide transfer pricing advisory support across a diverse portfolio of cross-border arrangements, business initiatives and jurisdictions
• Deliver practical and commercially grounded transfer pricing advice to product groups and broader business stakeholders
• Lead and/or support Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs), Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAPs) and tax authority engagements
• Monitor legislative and policy developments and translate impacts into practical business responses
• Work closely with the transfer pricing compliance team and regional tax teams to support effective documentation, reporting and year-end processes
• Identify and manage transfer pricing risks in line with Rio Tinto’s tax policy and governance frameworks
• Build trusted relationships across Tax, Finance and operational stakeholders to influence decision‑making and deliver governance aligned outcomes

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Significant transfer pricing advisory experience gained within a professional services firm, multinational organisation, or both
• Deep technical expertise in transfer pricing, including complex cross-border arrangements, strategic projects and business change
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, practical recommendations
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and build trusted relationships across global and matrixed environments
• A pragmatic and risk‑based approach, balancing technical quality, governance, compliance and commercial outcomes

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 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)
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements

Where you’ll be working

You’ll be part of Rio Tinto’s Group Tax function, one of the most highly regarded in‑house tax teams in the resources sector. Based in Brisbane or Perth, you will work within a globally connected transfer pricing advisory team, collaborating closely with colleagues across Australia, Singapore, Canada, London, Argentina and the United States, while partnering with the transfer pricing compliance team to deliver consistent, high‑quality outcomes across Rio Tinto’s global portfolio

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 LGBTQ+ 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.