Senior Advisor Contracts & Commercial

Senior Advisor Contracts & Commercial

• Build your career with a global organisation that values your development

• Diversity is our strength. Bring your unique skills experiences and perspectives to help our teams to thrive

• Permanent role Perth based offering great work/life balance

The opportunity

The Facilities planning and reporting team are responsible for providing endtoend financial planning analysis and reporting across Facilities operations in the Pilbara

Reporting to the Manager Planning & Reporting theSenior Advisor Contracts & Commercialis 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 youll 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 youve 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 lifes 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 youll 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 1700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

We are one of the worlds 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 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 cant do it on our own so were 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.