Principal Advisor, Business Analysis

RioTinto; Saint John; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global mining company seeks a Principal Advisor for Business Analysis to provide strategic insights and financial support to senior leadership. This role involves evaluating capital proposals and engaging with diverse business units in a global environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical benefits

Attractive share ownership plan

Career development assistance

Leave for all of life’s reasons

Exclusive employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial and operational roles.
• Strong analytical skills, including financial evaluation and modelling expertise.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic insights into investment decisions.
• Engage with Senior Leaders to identify and evaluate proposals.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Job description

Principal Advisor Business Analysis

• Provide strategic insights into investment decisions to help shape the future for Rio Tinto

• Work together with an inclusive and supportive management team

• Permanent opportunity based in Brisbane

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking a Principal Advisor, Business Analysis to actively contribute to value-creating opportunities for the Business & Technology Support Business Analysis team. This role supports the senior leadership team by providing high-quality financial support and strategic insight across various functions, including Information Systems & Technology, Closure, Decarbonisation, and Exploration.

This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a high-performing team, gain significant exposure to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and interact with diverse Business Units within a global business environment.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Business Analysis, you will engage with Senior Leaders to identify, advise, and evaluate capital and commercial proposals, ensuring maximized value for the organization. Your responsibilities will include generating, evaluating, and building business cases for new development opportunities and strategic initiatives. Additionally, you will prepare and review Business Analysis submissions to the Business and Technology Support Investment Committee (BTIC), providing insights on commercial issues, risks, and opportunities.

Supporting planning and capital performance management processes, including capital prioritization, will also be key aspects of your role. You will provide trusted advisory support to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), influencing and advising on relevant commercial matters. Pursuing innovative evaluation techniques, such as intangible valuation of technology, and maintaining high integrity by applying commercial rigor and discipline to all business decisions and stakeholder relationships, will be crucial for success in this position.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to safety for yourself and your team.

• Experience in commercial and operational roles.

• Strong analytical skills, including outstanding financial evaluation and modelling expertise.

• Proactive insight generation with a willingness to challenge the status quo.

• Ability to work in a global business across organizational and geographical interfaces.

• Excellent communication skills to present complex information and analysis to senior stakeholders.

• Interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence, and deliver superior results.

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 tofamily-friendly health and medical wellbeingsupport

• 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

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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.

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.