Finance Director – Canada/Africa - Drilling Services

Job Description

Boart Longyear is a global leader in drilling services, providing innovative and reliable solutions to the mining and drilling industry. With a rich history spanning over 130 years, Boart Longyear is committed to delivering excellence in safety, drilling services, and technology.

We are currently seeking a CAN/AFRICA Regional Finance Director to join our Boart Longyear team in Toronto, CAN. The Regional Finance Director will oversee and integrate the commercial, accounting, and FP&A strategy for the region, ensuring alignment with the organization’s broader financial goals. This role is critical in managing the region’s profit and loss (P&L) statement and driving strategic financial initiatives. Reporting directly to the Finance department, with a dotted line to the Regional Director, this position will provide comprehensive financial leadership across operations, growth initiatives, and commercial decision-making.

Strategic Financial Leadership

• Oversee and manage the region’s profit/loss (P&L) statement, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.
• Prepare capital expenditures (CAPEX) business cases, evaluating Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for individual projects and divisions.
• Provide insights into financial performance at the division and project level to support decision-making.
• Review commercial proposals for terms, financial impact, and completeness, ensuring alignment with regional strategy and capacity.
• Assist in cash management for the region, supporting optimal liquidity and financial efficiency.

FP&A and Forecasting

• Lead the preparation of the regional forecast and budget, conducting bi-weekly reviews and monthly roll-ups.
• Develop cash flow statements and analyses for each business unit and division.
• Create a monthly KPI and financial report pack, including balance sheets, cash flow analysis, and P&L by division and region.
• Drive Operational Excellence through analysis of financial performance; highlighting opportunities to optimize ROIC; tracking performance of improvement initiatives; reporting back to the operations leaders.

Commercial and Operational Support

• Partner with the Regional Director to track and manage the operating agenda, including commercial, operational, and growth cadence reviews.
• Maintain a commercial pipeline to monitor and support upcoming opportunities.
• Provide financial expertise for new country entry proposals (CAN/AFRICA region).

Team and Resource Management

• Manage the regional financial team, providing leadership, mentoring, and performance oversight.
• Oversee contract administrators to ensure accurate and complete billing.
• Manage third-party service providers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and cost-effectiveness.

Audit and Compliance

• Oversee the North America Controller to ensure accurate day-to-day handling of statutory reports and audits.
• Assist the Global Controller in the global audit process, ensuring regional compliance.
• Manage the audit of regional statutory reports, ensuring accuracy and adherence to regulations.

Operational Reporting and Analysis

• Provide detailed comparisons of actual financial results against bids and forecasts.
• Develop job-level cost sheets to evaluate project profitability and adherence to initial assumptions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field; CPA, CMA, or MBA is highly desirable.
• 10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with a strong emphasis on FP&A, commercial finance, and P&L management.
• Experience managing CAPEX evaluations, including ROIC assessments.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor financial teams in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Background in managing regional financial operations, preferably in the drilling services sector.
• Must be authorized to work in Canada.
• Must have valid Driver’s License.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

Talented people are attracted to companies with long-term success and a supportive workplace culture that encourages work-life balance. Boart Longyear offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and career advancement opportunities. If hired, you can expect:

• a strong compensation plan
• medical, vision, and dental program
• retirement program
• employee recognition rewards program (BRAVO)
• employee assistance program

Company Overview

Established in 1890, Boart Longyear is the world’s leading provider of drilling services, orebody knowledge technology, and innovative, safe, and productivity-driven drilling equipment. With its main focus in mining and exploration activities spanning a wide range of commodities, including copper, gold, nickel, zinc, uranium, and other metals and minerals, the Company holds a substantial presence in the energy, oil sands exploration, and environmental sectors.

The Global Drilling Services division operates for a diverse mining customer base with drilling methods including diamond coring exploration, reverse circulation, large diameter rotary, mine dewatering, water supply drilling, pump services, production, and sonic drilling services.

The Global Products division offers sophisticated research and development and holds hundreds of patented designs to manufacture, market, and service reliable drill rigs, innovative drill string products, rugged performance tooling, durable drilling consumables, and quality parts for customers worldwide.

Veracio, a wholly owned Boart Longyear subsidiary, offers mining clients a range of solutions that improve, automate, and digitally transform their orebody sciences by championing a modern approach through a diverse product portfolio that fuse science and technology together with digital accessibility. Veracio leverages artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to accelerate real-time decision making and significantly lower the cost of mineral exploration.

Our People

At Boart Longyear, people are our most important asset, and we understand that the best ideas are developed because of collaborative efforts between individuals with diverse backgrounds, opinions, and perspectives; That is why we are committed to diversity and inclusion in our work teams, fostering environments free of discrimination and harassment, where everyone feels free to present their opinions and be heard.

Our Vision

Boart Longyear’s vision is to be the global industry leader in safety, drilling innovation and productivity.

Our Values

Our success as a business depends on how we operate. The 'how' is the distinctive way in which we conduct our business, guided by our values of Integrity, Health & Safety, Teamwork & Diversity, Customer Focus and Sustainability.

Boart Longyear is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Visit our website, boartlongyear.com and follow Boart Longyear on social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we thank all who apply but will only be contacting those selected for an interview.

Function

Finance

Auto req ID

15460BR

Region (Business Group)

NAM

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Mississauga