Advisor, Finance Operations

**Advisor, Finance Operations
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**Who We Are**:
Welcome to Vale in Canada. As a leader in the mining industry, our responsibility is to positively impact our people, communities, and the environment. We value our workforce and offer continuous training and career development opportunities for our people.

With our global headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and approximately 125,000 employees in over 30 countries, Vale is constantly growing and changing. We invite you to be part of our evolution.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a **Finance Operations Advisor **to join our **Finance **team in **Sudbury, Ontario **or **Thompson, Manitoba **. This is a **permanent **position.

You will support and influence decision making at the Mining & Milling, Processing or plant level to improve business value (i.e. Financial, production, value, impacts downstream), to find opportunities for the plant to improve business value generation, and to uphold financial controls in alignment with accounting principles.

You will actively participate in challenging and analyzing fundamental and strategic decision making. Additionally, in this position you will...
- **Finance Leadership**:

- Understand and coordinate the defining of operational/plant/North Atlantic, Mining & Milling and Processing Plants business value drivers (coordinating) and track business performance
- Initiate teams to perform deviation and root cause analysis and implement action plans that are measurable and contribute to the overall business
- Monitor, assess, communicate and assist production areas in using business information systems to access information (SAP) - (coordinating)
- Coordinate work with plant teams to develop action plans that improve business value decisions that improve production, cost and capital performance (coordinating)
- Identify and propose business value opportunities as well as optimization of operation business plans (coordinating)
- Design and deliver business value competence within the business (coordinating)
- Provide high quality analytical support to ensure the range of financial outcomes, value drivers and risks are fully evaluated and aligned to strategic intent of plant, operations and corporate levels (service giving)
- Initiate the assembly of cross functional teams as assigned (e.g. lower pond slimes) - (service giving)
- Work to develop appropriate control systems that act as early warning mechanisms to identify variances to targets to both course correct in the case of risk and to point out opportunities wherever possible. (service giving)
- Identify risks and variances in performance in sufficient time to enable effective course corrections. (coordinating)
- Collaborate with Central group in creating and revising financial policy. (advisory)
- Demonstrate independent initiative to improve process knowledge. (Service giving)
- Mentor peers to increase their analytical and business process competence. (advisory)
- Assist in developing activity based budgets & forecasts in conjunction with plant contacts and through Mining & Milling, Processing and Central nodes, using production and cost drivers
- Attend plant update meetings with plant management as requested by Business Analysts and /or Finance Manager and heads of Mining & Milling and Processing Plants meetings
- **Monitoring and Analyzing**
- Using data to measure and interpret key financial and non-financial performance measurements including business value drivers, trends, tracking and reporting progress of strategic objectives and recommended corrective actions to key partners (coordinating)
- Continue to streamline and optimize business processes to improve the timeliness of reporting results. (coordinating)
- Support and assess use of business information systems to access information (ex. SAP) (monitoring)
- Identify and understand the cause-effect relationship between the critical metrics and define the root cause of the deviation
- **Planning**
- Communicating, challenging and coordinating the development of the annual strategic plan, budget and forecasts (production, operating, period and capital costs) at the Mining & Milling, Processing Plants or plant level
- (coordinating)
- Provide support to head of Mining & Milling, Processing and various plant management throughout NA for analysis of scenario plans and preparation of agile operating plans
- **Business Case Subject Matter Expert (SME)**
- Have a thorough understanding of business impacts (financial/value) and plant structure and awareness of interfaces external to the various operations (production, inventories, cost, capex, purchase feed) - (monitoring)
- Application of appropriate tools for case evaluations (ex. mines Ore Evaluation Model, EBITDA, Margin) - (prescribing)
- Be a member in the capital risk ranking process at the overall level to ensure all site capital proposals meet cost benefit and business value justifications, provide