Independent Director — Audit Committee Financial Expertise

Canada·Mining & Metals·Resource-sector reporting· Vancouver·Posted 6 July 2026

Applications close 29 December 2026

Resource-sector reporting organisation in Canada

The problem this seat exists to solve

The director will provide financial expertise as a resource business embeds the disciplines of public reporting. The role focuses on the quality of accounting judgements, committee challenge and the transition from transaction preparation to repeatable reporting operations.

Where expertise should be applied

Review significant accounting policies, estimates and disclosures. Challenge whether close procedures, reconciliations and approvals can operate reliably under the reporting timetable. Examine how management identifies material developments and brings them to the audit committee before decisions become urgent.

Ask management to demonstrate a complete reporting cycle, from source records through consolidation, review and disclosure approval. Identify manual dependencies and key-person risks that transaction advisers may previously have absorbed. The director should challenge whether a control can operate consistently with the team and systems available. Where remediation is staged, require clarity about interim measures and residual exposure. This makes the committee’s oversight practical while preventing temporary workarounds from becoming an undocumented permanent reporting model.

Audit and governance contribution

Participate in reviewing audit scope, auditor independence, findings and management responses. Help the committee distinguish a one-time clean-up from a sustainable control improvement. Support clear communication to the board about areas where assurance remains limited.

Candidates with the right evidence

Suitable candidates will have substantial financial reporting experience and familiarity with Canadian issuer governance and audit oversight. They should be able to demonstrate the practical establishment or strengthening of a public-company finance process. Resource-sector knowledge is useful, but the ability to evaluate reporting capability is central.

Boundaries and effectiveness

The director contributes challenge and oversight rather than preparing accounts or serving as an interim finance executive. Formal independence and committee eligibility should be assessed for the actual seat. Candidates should discuss how they would prioritise several control weaknesses when the finance team cannot address all of them before the next reporting cycle.

Terms

Where the board sits: Vancouver, Canada
Applications close: 29 December 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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