Senior Adviser WFA

Sr. Advisor WFA leads end-to-end employee data management & Benefits administration ensuring compliance with policies and controls and fostering a culture of operational excellence. This role requires extensive experience in employee benefits and data management resolving escalated queries collaborating with stakeholders implementing process enhancements and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and adherence to company values.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end management of employee data in HRIS (Human Resources Information System) or other designated systems ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies
• Ensure timely and satisfactory resolution of escalations or concerns related to various areas such as HR payroll policies and processes
• Act as a primary point of contact for senior stakeholders driving effective stakeholder management across the global ESPS/PeX network.
• Handle and resolve escalations and issues providing guidance and expertise to address complex matters
• Partner closely with Payroll PAS team to enhance Benefits & Employee Data management services delivery and manage adhoc business requests.
• Handle and resolve escalations and issues providing guidance and expertise to address complex matters
• Support transitions and transformations including onboarding of new resources knowledge transfer and process stabilization.
• Actively contributes to transformation and continuous improvement initiatives working closely with the BI team to drive automation standardization and process enhancements.
• Resolve critical process issues manage escalations effectively and provide technical and operational guidance to the team.
• Ensure process documentation (policies procedures work instructions) is accurately maintained reviewed and compliant with governance guidelines.
• Manage team performance through regular feedback coaching and development planning fostering a highperformance and engagementdriven culture.

Qualifications & Experience

• Masters or bachelors degree in accounting Business Administration Human Resources or related field required
• 8 to 13 years of overall experience with minimum 6 years of relevant HRIS Benefits administration payroll experience.
• Minimum 2 years of people leadership experience in a teamlead role managing up to 10 team members.
• Strong knowledge of employee data management principles practices and procedures
• Experience in managing a team or demonstrated leadership skills
• Proficient in using SAP data maintenance or Workday HRIS or other HR data management systems.
• In-depth understanding of control and compliance requirements including data protection regulations
• Proficiency in SAP and HR ticketing tools such as ServiceNow Workday

Technical & Functional Expertise

• Strong hands-on Employee Data management and Benefits administration including the understanding of payroll process

• Solid working knowledge of:
• SAP
• Workday
• Advanced Excel (complex models analysis automation)
• Exposure to payroll process

Leadership & Behavioural Competencies

• Proactive selfdriven and able to work independently in a fastpaced complex setup.
• Excellent analytical skills with strong critical thinking and decisionmaking ability.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset with experience driving standardisation efficiency and automation.

Values & Ways of Working

• Strong commitment to Rio Tinto values with a clear focus on:
  • Safety
  • Teamwork
  • Respect
  • Integrity
  • Excellence
• Role model for ethical behaviour accountability and collaboration.

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 Indigenous Peoples women the LGBTQIA 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.