Adviser Esps Bi Projects

Adviser, Business Improvement Projects – Employee Support & Payroll Services (ESPS)

• Be part of a group that is safety & results driven, while valuing inclusion.
• Grow your career in 2023.
• Join an excellent work environment where people are valued and respected.
• 12 month secondment or fixed term contract based in Brisbane, Perth or India Hubs

About the role

Our ESPS Business Improvement Projects team is seeking an experienced Adviser, to join the team on a 12-month secondment or fixed term contract which can be based in our Brisbane, Perth, or India Hub. This role will report into the Manager Business Improvement Projects – APAC region and will work as part of a team supporting the delivery of business improvements projects for the employee data maintenance and payroll functions.

This role is a great opportunity for a dynamic payroll professional who is a true collaborator with a continuous business improvement mindset. Our ESPS Business Improvement Project roles are fast paced, challenging, rewarding, and are dedicated to ‘making a difference’ by improving processes and systems that will have continuing benefits for end users experience, efficiency, and effectiveness.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

In this role, you will:

• Provide process and systems expertise for streamlining, simplifying, and improving end-to-end payroll processes.
• Support the delivery of ESPS business improvement compliance initiatives and projects.
• Design process and systems solutions for payroll which are compliant with company policies, internal control standards and regulatory requirements.
• Participates in regular communication updates with stakeholders to report on progress & changes.
• Be responsible for executing on individual deliverables and providing status updates.
• Perform and coordinate ESPS process and system solutions testing to validate changes and objectives.
• Create new support material based on the revised processes, reporting and systems enhancements. This will also include training material and delivery.
• Contribute to post implementation reviews on projects to ensure that they are completed successfully and to ensure all learnings from the projects are recorded and shared.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience in payroll and employee data maintenance activities with a comprehensive understanding of relevant Australian payroll legislation and superannuation.
• Experience in SAP payroll systems (or similar) for 1000+ employees.
• Stakeholder engagement skills, to facilitate improvement workshops and discussions across multiple stakeholders.
• Flexibility & ability to cover wide range of focus areas and operate at multiple levels of detail.
• Empathy and drive with ability to influence and resolve problems.
• Experience in data analysis, process improvement, process design & change enablement.
• Resilience and the ability to thrive in a continuous improvement culture and have a strong commitment to team-based processes and outcomes.
  Excellent interpersonal influencing, coaching, communication, negotiation skills.

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
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• 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, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you’ll be working

This role will be part of the Group Services team; this is a global team which has team members across all our major hubs. This role will require close partnership with IS&T and other regional teams such as People Experience (PeX) who provide HR advisory, global mobility, talent acquisition and recruitment, employee relations, remuneration and performance services to leaders, employees & HR business partners.

Every Voice Matters

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.

Applications close on Tuesday 28th of March 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)