Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair — Exploration
Canada·Mining & Metals·Mineral exploration· Toronto·Posted 23 September 2026
Applications close 28 October 2026
Mineral exploration organisation in Canada
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The problem this seat exists to solve
This audit-chair mandate focuses on an exploration business, where the quality of financial reporting depends heavily on expenditure classification, funding assumptions and disciplined disclosure. The chair must ensure the absence of production revenue does not lead to a lower standard of financial control.
Chair responsibility
Set a committee agenda covering financial statements, audit findings, liquidity, significant estimates and internal controls. Challenge the evidence supporting exploration expenditure treatment and any indicators requiring reassessment. Examine how management links technical progress, funding needs and financial disclosures without allowing optimistic project language to obscure uncertainty.
The committee should be able to follow a funding forecast from approved work programmes to cash commitments and reporting conclusions. Ask what activity can be deferred, what obligations remain if work stops and which funding assumptions are uncertain. Review whether material equity or financing transactions have received appropriate accounting analysis. The chair should challenge a reporting timetable that leaves significant judgements until the final meeting and require early discussion of issues that could affect the auditor’s work or the board’s understanding of liquidity.
The auditor relationship
Support direct communication between the committee and external auditor, including private discussion without management where appropriate. Review the audit plan, significant judgements, independence and unresolved findings. Require management responses with owners and deadlines; the chair oversees remediation but does not prepare the accounts or perform the audit.
Qualified candidates
Candidates need strong financial reporting expertise, audit oversight experience and familiarity with Canadian public-issuer governance. Relevant experience includes exploration accounting, cash forecasting and disclosures involving uncertain future funding. Formal independence and committee eligibility must be evaluated for the actual issuer and applicable framework.
Evidence the committee should demand
Funding runway should reconcile to committed and planned activity. Significant accounting conclusions should be documented and consistent with the supporting evidence. Candidates should explain how they have challenged a going-concern assessment or expenditure judgement while maintaining an effective relationship with management and the auditor.
Terms
- Where the board sits
- Toronto, Canada
- Applications close
- 28 October 2026
- Appointment
- Board appointment
- Time commitment in this market
- Typically 6–9 board meetings a year plus committee cycles; resource issuers add site visits and a heavier technical-report load.
Before you apply — Canada
No nationality test applies to you. Whether residency matters depends entirely on where the company is incorporated — federal CBCA companies have a 25% resident-Canadian rule, Ontario and BC companies do not.
- Residency test
- 25% of directors of a CBCA corporation must be resident Canadians. Ontario abolished its equivalent requirement in 2021 and British Columbia has none.
- Nationality test
- None.
- Work authorisation
- A non-resident director attending board meetings does not require a work permit; board attendance falls within permitted business-visitor activity. Executive and interim operating roles require authorisation.
- Tenure limit once appointed
- No cap. NI 58-101 requires disclosure of whether the board has adopted term limits or other renewal mechanisms, and to explain why not if it has not.
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