Senior Adviser Test Assurance

•  Ensure critical financial and tax reporting outputs are accurate, controlled and release-ready.

• Apply your project expertise to a major SAP-enabled ERP and reporting transformation.

• Brisbane or Perth based opportunity working across Finance, Reporting, Data and Technology teams.

• 12+ Month Engagement

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

At Rio Tinto, we are committed to finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. We are looking for a Senior Adviser – Test Assurance (Financial Reporting) to join a major enterprise reporting and systems transformation program. This is an opportunity to help ensure financial reporting outputs are accurate, reliable and aligned with business requirements through robust testing, validation and assurance activities.

About the Role

Reporting to the Manager – Project Delivery, you will coordinate and support financial reporting validation and data assurance activities across the Finance workstream of the Modern ERP program. Working closely with Finance, Tax, Data, Reporting, IS&T and project stakeholders, you will help ensure reporting and data outcomes are ready for each test phase and that validation activities are executed in accordance with programme quality standards and governance requirements.

You will play a key role in test planning and coordination, readiness assessments, evidence management, stakeholder sign-off, defect governance and reporting. The role acts as a central point of coordination between program and business teams to support successful delivery of required outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Coordinate financial reporting validation and test assurance activities across project test cycles and release phases.

• Support validation planning, ensuring test entry criteria, dependencies, environments, data and resources are in place to enable successful execution.

• Monitor validation progress and provide status, risk and quality reporting to support programme governance and decision-making.

• Ensure validation evidence is captured, reviewed and maintained in accordance with programme standards and audit requirements.

• Facilitate stakeholder review and sign-off processes, ensuring validation outcomes are appropriately documented and traceable.

• Coordinate defect triage, prioritisation and resolution activities across business, data and technology teams.

• Maintain traceability between reporting requirements, test scenarios, validation results, defects and supporting evidence.

• Manage validation artefacts, test results, defects and reporting documentation within approved tools and frameworks.

About You

• Demonstrated experience in test assurance, testing coordination, project coordination or project support within complex transformation environments.

• Strong Finance background with experience in financial reporting, management reporting, statutory reporting, tax reporting or accounting functions.

• Proven experience conducting data validation, data quality reviews and reconciliation activities.

• Experience supporting enterprise systems uplift, ERP transformation or large-scale SAP projects.

• Strong understanding of reporting controls, reporting validation and the importance of accurate financial data.

• Ability to engage effectively with Finance, Data, Technology and Project stakeholders across multiple workstreams.

• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

• A demonstrated commitment to safety, inclusion and continuous improvement.

What We Offer

• Attractive compensation that is aligned to the specialist nature and impact of the role.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment.

• Career development to further your ambitions.

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Be part of Rio Tinto’s global Modern ERP transformation, contributing directly to one of the organisation’s most significant multi‑year programs.

• High‑impact contract role where your expertise helps shape the future of Planning & Reporting across a global enterprise.

Where You’ll Be Working

You’ll join the Modern ERP Program — a multi‑disciplinary team bringing together technology, process, data and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We’re modernising a 20‑year‑old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and ignite innovation.

 This work supports our people across global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on work that really matters. By simplifying and digitising how the organisation runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision‑making and AI‑enabled transformation.

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About Rio TintoRio 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 InclusionAt 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.