Senior Advisor Contracts & Commercial
Rio Tinto
Senior Advisor Contracts & Commercial
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Permanent role | Perth based offering great work/life balance
The opportunity
The Facilities planning and reporting team are responsible for providing end‑to‑end financial planning, analysis and reporting across Facilities operations in the Pilbara
Reporting to the Manager Planning & Reporting, the Senior Advisor Contracts & Commercial is responsible for providing specialist support for a shared resources area including strategies, governance, systems, reporting, process improvement and effectiveness.
Key responsibilities will include:
Manage IFM 2.0 Pricing Model: Oversee pricing governance, including annual budgeting, reporting, monitoring of costs, invoicing, Baseline governance, savings tracking, and reconciliation.
Budget Setting & Validation: Lead the development and validation of budgets, ensuring alignment with financial targets and strategic objectives.
Approval Oversight & Ordering Services: Coordinate approvals for base and additional services and manage ordering of other services as required.
Supplier Collaboration: Work closely with Supplier to manage pricing changes and variances, fostering trust and solid commercial relationships.
Financial Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks through detailed financial analysis, ensuring integrity of the IFM 2.0 commercial framework.
Innovation Management: Support benefit tracking within the innovation process to ensure measurable outcomes.
Change Control Management: Support the contract change process whenever there is a financial impact, ensuring compliance and transparency.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build partnerships with internal teams (Procurement, Finance, Communities) and external stakeholders to support pricing governance and operational excellence.
Performance Reporting: Develop clear, concise presentations to communicate pricing trends, commercial performance, and strategic initiatives.
What you’ll bring:
To be successfully considered for this role, you will demonstrate:
Chartered Accountant, Certified Public Accountant or related discipline.
Proven experience in financial planning, pricing governance, and commercial management.
Solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and cost control principles.
Experience in transformation projects and business case evaluation for value creation.
Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.
Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving capability.
Commitment to Rio Tinto values, including a commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
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
Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
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, personal leave, cultural leave)
To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more
Where you’ll be working
In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.
We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.
This will be a Perth based role at our Central Park office in Perth CBD.
Applications close on 23rd February 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
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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 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.
