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About the Role

This role offers a rare opportunity to lead tax support for complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional projects and transactions across a global portfolio. You will gain exposure to senior stakeholders, operate with autonomy, and contribute to commercially important outcomes for Rio Tinto. We are seeking a highly commercial tax professional with demonstrated experience in leading tax support for multi-jurisdictional projects and transactions, including M&A. The role requires deep tax technical expertise, strong judgment, commercial acumen, and a pragmatic mindset, enabling effective operation at both detail and strategic levels. While there are no direct reports, the role involves building and leading project teams.

Responsibilities

Lead the tax workstream for complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions, restructures and strategic projects, including M&A.
Provide clear, commercially grounded tax advice across the full project lifecycle and support timely decision-making by senior stakeholders.
Assess and articulate the tax implications of transaction structures, financing arrangements, post-deal integration steps and cross-border operating models in a practical and decision-useful manner.
Mobilise and lead project teams drawn from local tax teams, other Group Tax specialists and external advisers, ensuring the right expertise is brought in at the right time.
Identify, assess and communicate key tax risks arising from projects, transactions and business initiatives, ensuring early understanding and appropriate management.
Ensure advice and recommended approaches align with Rio Tinto's tax principles, governance requirements and broader policy framework.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Tax, Finance, Legal, Business Development and the broader business, becoming a go-to adviser on major initiatives and transactions.
Manage external advisers effectively by defining scope, directing inputs and challenging advice where needed to ensure high-quality, timely and commercially relevant support.
Work with external advisers and internal specialists to gather input efficiently, challenge assumptions and build robust positions on complex matters.

Requirements

10+ years' experience in a professional services firm and/or multinational in-house tax environment.
Substantial exposure to complex transactions, strategic projects and M&A activity.
Deep technical tax expertise, strong commercial acumen and a business-partnering mindset.
Ability to translate complex cross-border issues into clear, practical advice that supports better business decisions.
Demonstrated experience leading tax support for multi-jurisdictional projects and transactions, including shaping options, identifying and prioritizing material tax considerations, and supporting decision-making through the full project lifecycle.
Strong business partnering and stakeholder leadership skills.
Ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders and co-ordinate internal specialists, regional teams and external advisers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
A pragmatic, delivery-focused and risk-based approach.
Ability to work at pace, manage competing priorities and apply sound judgment on when to escalate, where to focus effort and how to work to governance requirements while delivering commercial outcomes in a large, matrixed or global organisation.
Experience in the resources, mining, energy or other capital-intensive multinational sector is desirable.
A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.

Skills

Tax technical expertise
Commercial acumen
Business partnering
Stakeholder leadership
Project management
Risk assessment
Cross-border tax advice
M&A tax support

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards

Benefits

Career development & education assistance
Top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
Pension plan
Wellbeing benefits
Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
Employee Assistance Program
Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family
Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About the Company

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company operating in 35 countries.
We produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition.
Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs, striving for innovation and continuous improvement with low emissions and high environmental, social, and governance standards.
We focus on creating partnerships to solve problems and meet opportunities.
Our values are care, courage, and curiosity.

Equal Opportunity

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.