Overview
YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE
Reporting to the Director, Corporate Reporting, you will be part of the Finance Department. You will be responsible for various monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting requirements at head office and on a consolidated basis. These requirements must be met in order to be compliant with regulatory, industry and company standards and to provide accurate financial information to senior management, shareholders and other key stakeholders.
You will also be responsible to prepare a variety of documents, including monthly internal financial statements and certain variance analysis and ad-hoc analysis, as required, quarterly board package (to Senior Management and Board of Directors), 6-K Reports (filed externally and available online to shareholders, debtholders and public), annual Board package (to Senior Management and Board of Directors), Annual Report, and certain areas of Annual Information Form (AIF) (filed externally and available online to shareholders, debtholders and public).
Responsibilities
- Quarterly Financial Reporting Close (6-K and 40-F filings): Act as main point of contact for internal and external auditors. Delegate or respond to auditor requests.
- Ownership over accurate completion of certain sections of working papers including directing work to staff and performing final review. Escalation of issues required to Director or Corporate Controller for higher risk or non-routine items.
- Preparation / review of balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, financial statement notes in compliance with IFRS.
- Internal Financial Reporting: Lead the monthly close process for head office.
- Preparation of timely and accurate monthly financial reports.
- Partner with divisional finance teams to achieve reporting requirements.
- Management of Senior Financial Analyst (SFA): Assign all tasks and deadlines in relation to monthly / quarterly / annual financial statement close.
- Review / approve all journal entries and working papers prepared by the SFA (effective management review of these items is required in order to be in compliance with SOX).
- Make decisions on the appropriate accounting treatment of any non-routine items encountered by SFA;
- Identify and implement process improvements;
- Ad hoc projects: Assist with the implementation of new accounting standards;
- System implementations and improvements;
- Coordination with finance technology team;
- IFRS research, process improvements and training.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field;
- 5-7 years experience in finance, accounting or financial reporting;
- CPA designation;
- Mining industry experience is considered an asset;
- Knowledge of JDE / Hyperion is considered an asset;
- Demonstrated strong knowledge of IFRS and SOX;
- Ability to take ownership of an issue and see it to completion;
- Strategic and progressive approach to analyzing ambiguous issues;
- Excellent working knowledge of all Microsoft Office Suite applications especially Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint.