Business Improvement & Automation Principal Advisor

• Excellent opportunity to join a Business Improvement and Automation team in our global tax team with a world class company.
• Shape and drive our process improvement and development of data driven-technology solutions.
• This role will be a hybrid role with anchor days in the office but flexible work from home options.
• Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

About the role 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

We are seeking a Principal Advisor specializing in Business Improvement and Automation to join our global Indirect Tax team. In this brand-new role, you will lead initiatives to enhance productivity through process optimization and the development of data-driven technology solutions for our global indirect tax operations. Your responsibilities will be to design, implement and oversee processes and data management using cutting-edge technology tools to extract, transform, and organize the financial information required by our regional indirect tax teams. You will also collaborate closely with our IT, Business Improvement, and Tax teams to ensure the proper integration and maintenance of jurisdictional rules within our SAP and data systems.

 In addition to these duties, you will utilize your data analytics skills with our financial systems platforms to improve our efficiency and accuracy. You will also have the unique opportunity to interact with regional teams across various locations including Brisbane, Montreal, Delhi, and Salt Lake City.

 This role is a unique opportunity to drive change management to influence and achieve progress. The successful candidate must possess the ability to empathize, persuade, and lead others to produce true business transformation. Some additional responsibilities include:

• Drive business improvement by designing, implementing, and managing technology-driven solutions for indirect tax processes.
• Standardize and enhance the automation of our indirect tax reports at a global scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy and maintain technology-driven solutions.
• Ensure we are complying and maintaining our tax technology solutions to meet our regional indirect tax requirements.
• Maintain expertise in data analytics tools and technology platforms.
• Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external technology vendors so we can continue to remain innovative in this space.
• Provide mentoring and training on our technology tools.
• Act as a subject matter expert on finance data technologies.
• Generate business intelligence reports and visualizations to foster informed data-driven decisions.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in process improvement, data analytics, information technology, accounting, or finance with an emphasis in technology solutions.
• A demonstrated track record in business intelligence and process improvement through the implementation of data technology solutions and platforms.
• Expertise in Microsoft suite of products including power platform tools and other data analytics platforms and tools such as Azure, SQL, Python, Power Query, Power BI, R or equivalent. Experience with tax technology platforms and software such as SAP and Vertex.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing your project management and change management skills.
• A risk-management-oriented attitude with a main on focus on accuracy of material matters.
• An ability to adapt to changing regulations and technologies. Skills to empathize, persuade, and lead organizational transformation.
• Your willingness to work across different time zones when collaborating with our global teams.

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees.
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals.

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 can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities

Where you will be working

At Rio Tinto, we’re proud of the economic contribution we make to the communities where we operate, and a key part of that economic contribution is through the tax that we pay. We believe transparency encourages accountability – ours as well as others. We voluntarily publish information about the tax paid in all countries where we operate, in fact more than a decade ago, Rio Tinto was the first company in the mining industry to disclose payments to governments in detail, and we have been reporting on our taxes and royalties paid, and our economic contribution, in increasing detail ever since.

The Global Tax function is central to this approach and is responsible for the conduct of Rio Tinto's tax affairs and the management of tax risks. The team works closely with the business to provide specialist advice and guidance on tax compliance and offer other advisory services to the Rio Tinto group globally.

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. 

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural background

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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