Business Analyst

**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.

Our Sudbury Operations have been in existence for more than 100 years. With five mines, a mill, a smelter, a refinery and nearly 4,000 employees it is also one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world. Sudbury is also home to several administrative sites serving both the Ontario Operations as well as all our North Atlantic Operations.

Port Colborne is home to our Nickel Refinery where raw materials from our Sudbury operations are processed into electrocobalt and precious metals and serves as a distribution centre for finished nickel products.

**Our Team**:
The Financial Planning and Analysis team supports Plant Operations and Supports Groups by providing timely financial analysis and reporting that will enable the site management team to make informed decisions and control their costs.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a **Business Analyst, Local 2020-05** to join our **Sudbury Operations**.

Be a business partner to the operating site or sites by being a key member of the site management team, gain and maintain a thorough understanding of the cost structure, cost drivers and operation of the site or sites, provide relevant financial information and analysis that will enable the site management team to exercise cost control over their costs. Ensure financial reporting requirements are met as set out by the North Atlantic Management team including, but not limited to, monthly results, weekly, monthly, yearly forecasts, annual budget and five year plans.

**Accountabilities**

Be a business partner to the site or sites you are allocated to by:

- Gaining and maintaining a thorough understanding of the cost structure and cost drivers of your site or sites
- Gaining and maintaining a thorough understanding of the operations at your site or sites
- Understand and analyze the components and drivers of operating costs
- Understand and analyses the contract expenditure impacting costs
- Understand and analyze the impact of production challenges and plans on costs
- Understand and analyze capital expenditure and the impact that production challenges and plans have on it
- Provide support to the site management team in terms of cost analysis, financial results and financial sign-off on operational changes impacting costs and/or revenue
- Costs analysis includes reporting on absolute cost for the period (month, quarter, year, YTD etc.), cost in terms of cost category and unit costs
- Financial results analysis includes reporting on actual vs. budget, actual vs. plan and plan vs. budget numbers over various timeframes
- Track costs against the site's or sites' agreed-upon KPIs and working with site management, analyze the reasons for any deviations and develop and implement action plans to address the deviations; track action plans to ensure implementation and effectiveness
- Ensure that costs recorded are valid and relevant to your allocated site or sites
- Assist site or sites with the preparation of forecasts (weekly/monthly/yearly), annual budget and five-year plan for all costs (operating and capital costs) within the guidelines and deadlines provided by N.A. Management and Reporting & Budgeting team. Forecasts are to be prepared in conjunction with site management and needs to take into account production forecasts and plans and the impact thereof on the various cost drivers
- Be active in the management of the site or sites you are allocated to in terms of providing feedback and input on matters that affects costs, provide different insights and perspectives where possible and relevant and challenge the team on the requirements for spending or new projects
- Analyze costs for potential opportunities to reduce or eliminate costs; discuss these with the N.A. Finance team and site management; log agreed-on initiatives in the relevant tracking tool; regular review and follow up on initiatives to ensure implementation thereof and realization of benefits
- Be a member in the capital risk ranking process at the plant level to ensure all site capital proposals meet cost-benefit and business value justifications, provide analysis and advice to plant management for all capex submissions
- Review and provide input to plant specific business cases (ex. engineering requests, upgrades, mobile equipment rent vs buy scenarios, total cost of ownership business cases) with direction and oversight from NA Business & Support group
- Provide guidance and make decisions on capital vs operating spend at the plant, capital lease criteria with