- Become a valuable addition to the Centerra Corporate team
- Boost your career by joining an established organization
- Receive a highly attractive annual salary between $130,000 - $140,000, plus bonus and benefits
About Centerra Gold
Headquartered in Toronto, Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) is one of the leading North American gold and copper producers engaged in the operation, exploration, development, and acquisition of quality mining assets in Asia, North America, and other markets worldwide.
Centerra’s vision is to build a team-based culture of excellence that responsibly delivers sustainable value and growth. We are committed to the safety, integrity, ethics, and fairness of our operations, promoting the highest standards of ethical business conduct of our employees, officers, and directors.
For more information, please see our website.
About The Opportunity
We are looking for a
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis to join our Centerra Corporate team. This is a hybrid position out of our
Toronto, ON office.
Reporting to the VP, FP&A and Treasurer, the Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis will be heavily involved in short and long-term financial planning for the Company and will have a crucial role in managing the end-to-end forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning processes. The incumbent will manage the consolidated annual budget and quarterly forecast processes, help develop public guidance as needed, maintain the corporate financial model and other asset models, administer the FP&A software systems and provide financial analysis to the executive team. The incumbent will also assist with preparation of the MD&A and various special projects.
Your Responsibilities Will Include, But Are Not Limited To
Forecasting and Budgeting
- Work with the Company’s site business units (“BU”), providing assistance and guidance on the preparation of their quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-term (life-of-mine) plans.
- Maintain existing communication channels with site FP&A teams, serve as the primary point of contact for any questions on forecasting or budgeting.
- Drive the process to ensure high-quality quarterly forecasts and annual budgets are prepared and submitted from the Company’s business units.
- Prepare the consolidated annual budget and quarterly forecasts to provide key metrics and insights to Senior Management.
- Assist with associated materials for Board presentations.
- Coordinate weekly FP&A stand-up meetings and keep track of ongoing initiatives, including standard tasks and projects.
- Assume ownership and accountability for Centerra’s budgeting software/tools. Support site BU and corporate business needs within financial planning software and coordinate with external vendor as required.
- Drive documentation of processes and procedures, and develop recommendations for FP&A process improvement and adoption of best practices.
- Travel to operations/projects from time-to-time to review business plans, analysis, forecasts, and budgets and provide feedback.
- Train site level staff (as required) on new protocols and/or systems pertaining to planning.
Business Analysis
- Analyze financial and operational results to evaluate BUs/Company performance and to provide analysis and recommendations to management. Support senior management and other corporate departments with required financial analysis and financial data.
- Enhance the current state of business analysis in terms of quality of data, automation of reporting, visualization and interpretation of data and translation of data into useful information to be used for decision making by the executive team.
Asset Modelling
- Own and maintain the Company’s corporate financial model which outlines the long-term production plans, costs, valuation, and liquidity outlook for all assets within Centerra.
- Produce models that project long-term results for BUs such as life of mine plans.
- Contribute to development of new models and enhance the existing models for the projects in the Company’s existing portfolio that might be undergoing a technical study (PEA, PFS, FS) and are being evaluated for potential development or divestment.
About You
The following will be critical to successfully performing this role:
- Undergraduate university degree in an appropriate area of expertise, with preference for mining engineering, business, or equivalent technical degree.
- Additional specialized education of up to 4 years including master’s level degree or equivalent is preferred, with emphasis on Finance (for example, CFA or MBA) or Accounting (for example CPA).
- 5-7 years of related work experience or equivalent in the mining industry, including but not limited to:
- Experience working with senior corporate personnel, including teams within both highly technical, operational, and financial functions.
- Experience working with site level operations and finance teams (preferably for an international company across different countries and preferably mining related).
- Detailed financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting and modeling experience is highly preferred.
- Strong problem-solving skill with ability to understand the big picture.
- Superior project management skills, with ability to multi-task, organize project plans and coordinate with highly skilled corporate, regional and mine site staff.
- Strong ability to develop constructive relationships in order to work with other departments, including those in foreign operations, to ensure smooth and timely collection of information required for various FP&A purposes.
- Strong analytical capabilities and good attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills in presentation development, oral communication and other documentation.
- Good coaching skills with ability to mentor and provide feedback to other more junior team members.
- Excellent Excel capabilities and experience the excel financial models.
- Expert in PowerPoint and other visualization tools like PowerBi or Think-Cell would be considered a strong asset.
- Experience with SAP and Oracle/Hyperion or other leading planning solutions is an asset.
About The Benefits
As a valued member of our corporate team, you can look forward to a highly attractive annual salary, based on experience, skills, and qualifications. You'll also gain access to some incredible benefits, including:
- Extended group health, dental, vision, and travel insurance
- Life Insurance, STD, LTD, AD&D
- Company-sponsored RRSP with Company match
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Healthcare Spending Account / Lifestyle Wellness Spending Account
- Annual Incentive Bonus
- Long-term Incentive Plan
- Employee Share Purchase Plan with Company match
- Parental leave top-up program
- Professional development within the organization
- Join a company committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion
This is your chance to be part of an established, industry-leading global organization with incredible room for career growth and personal development.
If you have the skills necessary to bring success to the role, then we invite you to apply today!
Disclosure: This position is being advertised to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.
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