Legal Analyst

• Play a key role in enabling strategic legal and corporate projects through financial, operational and administrative support.

• Grow your experience across legal operations, reporting, process improvement, AI adoption and stakeholder engagement in a global team.

• Join a leading global company with this London-based opportunity in an inclusive and safety-focused environment.

We’re 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 Legal Analyst to help the Corporate and Strategic Projects Legal team deliver meaningful outcomes across a global business. In this role, you will support legal operations, reporting, budgeting and strategic initiatives while working with a diverse team of legal professionals across multiple locations. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys improving processes, leveraging technology and partnering with stakeholders to achieve business objectives.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the General Counsel and working within the Corporate and Strategic Projects Legal team, you will:

• Provide administrative and operational support to senior lawyers, including meeting coordination, diary management and confidential correspondence handling.

• Coordinate onboarding activities for new team members, including system access, training support and maintenance of team resources and distribution lists.

• Prepare and format reports, presentations and communications using Microsoft Office tools, including PowerPoint and Excel.

• Analyse legal spend, support budgeting and forecasting activities, and contribute to legal fee and risk reporting.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including legal technology adoption, AI-enabled solutions and knowledge management practices.

• Maintain legal document repositories and collaborate with paralegals to support effective records and document management.

• Coordinate travel, events and logistics for legal team activities and offsite meetings.

• Manage purchase orders, expenses, matter-level budgets and liaison with external law firms regarding costs and invoicing.

About you

We’re 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.

• Experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, legal operations professional or finance support specialist within an in-house or private practice environment.

• Demonstrated capability in project coordination, document management and supporting multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, including reporting, analysis and presentation preparation.

• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, expense management or financial reporting processes.

• Knowledge of process improvement, automation or legal technology tools and practices.

Helpful for Success

• Experience working within a global or matrix organisation.

• Exposure to legal risk reporting, legal spend management or vendor management processes.

• Experience supporting AI, knowledge management or digital transformation initiatives.

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 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 matter 

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you’ll be working

Our global headquarters is situated in St. James’s Square, in the City of Westminster, London, on the edge of the West End, and is the site of the group’s original head office.  Located over several floors, the office is truly a global hub for the business and is the base for many members of the Executive Committee.  As such, the grade II listed office reflects the vibrancy of the location, although it also overlooks the tranquillity of the only garden square in the district and is a short walk from Green Park and Piccadilly underground stations. 

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 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.