Jobs at Rio Tinto

Finance-focused internship opportunities in Montreal for university students entering Rio Tinto’s 2027 Winter Internship Program. Interns will develop and apply finance, data analysis, cloud, SAP, and Power Automate skills in 6- to 12-month assignments. Candidates should demonstrate leadership, eagerness to learn, flexibility, autonomy, communication, and teamwork. Successful interns may later be considered for permanent graduate roles.

Leads technical qualification, product adoption, customer problem resolution, quality improvement, and new product programs for Rio Tinto’s aluminum rolling slab portfolio. Provides expertise in slab casting and rolling, supports customer relationships, audits, negotiations, and business development, and communicates technical value propositions. Collaborates globally with customers, sales, operations, quality, and research teams. Frequent travel of approximately 30–50% is required.

Leads controllership oversight for a global business portfolio, ensuring financial statement integrity, accounting governance, internal controls, regulatory compliance, audit management, and timely close processes. Directs complex accounting guidance, finance transformation, automation, analytics, responsible AI adoption, and process improvement. Builds relationships with senior finance stakeholders, leads geographically dispersed teams, develops accounting professionals, and drives remediation, accountability, and change across the organization.

Develop and execute global fixed-equipment procurement, category, supplier, and commercial strategies for major capital projects. Translate market intelligence, supplier relationships, and commercial analysis into sourcing decisions that improve competitiveness, supply assurance, risk management, and long-term value. Lead complex negotiations, strategic supplier agreements, governance, and value delivery while collaborating with global project, technical, commercial, and operational stakeholders. Coach teams and identify opportunities for standardization, demand aggregation, and innovative delivery models.

Manage workplace operations across Rio Tinto’s North American corporate offices. Responsibilities include workplace safety and compliance, supplier contracts and performance, operational and financial management, real estate portfolio planning, property requirements, stakeholder relationships, and continuous improvement of employee workplace experiences. The role requires significant corporate real estate or workplace management experience in a complex global organization, along with bilingual French and English fluency.

Lead commercial controllership for Kennecott and copper third-party trading activities. Responsibilities include financial and statutory reporting, technical accounting, governance, financial controls, IFRS and SOx compliance, audit support, transaction analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and process standardization, automation, and improvement. The role requires clear financial insight, sound professional judgment, accurate reporting, and bilingual French-English communication.

Leads the Montreal Commercial Controllership team supporting Northern Hemisphere operations. Responsibilities include team development, stakeholder partnership, financial performance reporting, technical accounting, IFRS and SOx compliance, audit coordination, statutory reporting, governance, and process improvement across Aluminium and Copper product groups.

Coordinate operational readiness for a global SAP S/4HANA deployment, including SME deliverables, testing, training, cutover, hypercare, schedules, logistics, risks, issues, and dependencies. The role supports the Move & Sell function across regions and sites, partnering with readiness leads, change leaders, trainers, testers, and local representatives in a matrixed environment.

Develop and manage natural gas category and supply-chain strategies across North American operations. Negotiate and administer commercial, transportation, and distribution contracts for a portfolio exceeding $100 million. Analyze market data, forecasts, pricing, hedging, regulatory developments, and supplier performance to support sourcing decisions, cost reduction, supply security, and energy-transition initiatives. Prepare reports and forecasts, execute sourcing projects in Ariba, and lead supplier performance reviews while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and risk-management standards.

Design, improve, govern, and support reliable data products and pipelines in Palantir Foundry. Responsibilities include data modeling, ETL orchestration, enterprise-system integration, testing, data quality, analytics, documentation, and collaboration with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders in an agile environment.

Join the PACE team to support and deliver strategic and operational projects, analyze complex data, develop recommendations, and help implement solutions while collaborating with senior leaders across global operations.

Lead and deliver high-value consulting projects for PACE/Rio Tinto: scope projects, manage client relationships, create and execute project plans, lead consultant and client teams, recruit and mentor consultants, and travel as required. Bilingual (FR/EN) and on-site in Montreal.