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Principal Advisor Risk Intelligence and Analytics

Rio Tinto


Job Location:

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 21 October 2026 (6 days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

  • Shape enterprise risk decisions by turning complex internal and external data into clear forward-looking insight for senior leaders and the Board.
  • Build your influence across analytics artificial intelligence and machine learning while developing reusable risk indicators dashboards and decision tools.
  • Work across Enterprise Risk and major business functions
  • Role is based in either London or Perth

Were Finding Better Ways to provide materials the world needs now and in the future. Our values care courage and curiosity guide how we work and how we treat each other.


About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor Risk Intelligence and Analytics to help our Enterprise Risk team turn complex data into insight that informs this role youll use analytics artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify emerging risks and changes in risk exposure translate complex structured and unstructured date into insights. You will support risk monitoring risk appetite discussions scenario planning and reporting to senior leadership and the Board. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex analytical problems and wants to strengthen how risk intelligence is used across the business.


What youll be doing

Reporting to the Director Risk Governance Analysis and Reporting and working with Enterprise Risk and Insurance Product Group Risk teams Information Systems & Technology Finance Business Analysis and technical SMEs you will be:

  • Apply artificial intelligence machine learning and advanced analytics to improve risk analysis and create practical business solutions.
  • Analyse internal and external data to identify trends anomalies emerging risks relationships and concentrations across the risk portfolio.
  • Apply quantitative and analytical techniques (e.g. statistical analysis scenario modelling)to assess risk exposure and support risk appetite monitoring.
  • Deliver economic geopolitical market and industry intelligence and generate forward-looking insights to support targeted risk reviews .
  • Develop and analyse leading and lagging risk indicators executive dashboards and clear visualisations for leadership and Board reporting.
  • Automate data gathering analysis and reporting to improve accuracy timeliness and efficiency.
  • Integrate structured and unstructured data apply quality controls and document methods and assumptions to create reusable datasets and tools.

About you

Were looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every helpful for success item to apply - if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
  • Strong quantitative and data analytics capability with demonstrated experience identifying patterns trends and anomalies in complex datasets.
  • Demonstrated experience applying artificial intelligence machine learning or advanced analytics to practical business problems.
  • Business acumen and experience in communicating complex analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences including data dashboards and visualisation.
  • Hands-on capability with Python SQL R Excel or equivalent analytical tools including integrating data from multiple structured and unstructured sources.
  • A qualification in a quantitative or analytical discipline

Helpful for Success

  • Experience working with risk management frameworks.
  • Experience working with SAP data or other enterprise data sources.
  • Experience with scenario modelling stress testing risk indicators or risk appetite monitoring.
  • Exposure to economic geopolitical market or industry intelligence in a large or complex organisation.

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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
  • Leave for all of lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental sick leave)

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 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.





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