Company Overview
Silver Storm Mining Ltd. is a growth-focused mining company with a mining operation and advanced-stage silver projects in Durango, Mexico. We are committed to operational excellence, sustainable development, financial integrity, and delivering long-term value to shareholders.
Role description
Silver Storm Mining Ltd. is seeking a disciplined and proactive Corporate Controller to lead our financial operations, cost control and financial analysis, internal controls, and IFRS reporting. Reporting directly to the VP Finance, the Corporate Controller will oversee cross-border accounting operations between Canada and Mexico, establish strict operational expenditure oversight, safeguard assets, and optimize site-level and corporate cost efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Operational Cost Control & Financial Management
- Site & Project Cost Control: Implement and enforce rigorous operational cost control systems across corporate headquarters and Mexican mining project sites.
- Variance Analysis & Unit Economics: Track, analyze, and report site-level operational expenditure (OpEx) and capital expenditure (CapEx) against budgets, monitoring cost-per-tonne, sustaining capital, and AISC (All-In Sustaining Costs).
- Financial Reporting: Direct month-end, quarter-end, and year-end consolidated close processes and prepare accurate financial statements and MD&A under IFRS.
- Audit & Tax Liaison: Lead external and internal audits, tax filings, and working relations with external auditors and local Mexican tax advisors.
2. Internal Controls & Governance
- Internal Control Framework: Design, implement, and maintain a robust internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) framework across corporate and field operations to safeguard assets and prevent fraud.
- Segregation of Duties & Delegation of Authority: Enforce strict controls over procurement, inventory/warehouse management, payroll, capital approval thresholds, and banking approvals.
- Compliance & Statutory Oversight: Ensure full compliance with Canadian TSX-V / TSX / OSC reporting standards and Mexican legal, labor, and tax regulations. Understanding of SEC requirement and its implementation.
- Inventory & Asset Safeguarding: Oversee controls around physical inventory counts, equipment tracking, and asset retirement obligations (ARO).
3. Budgeting, Forecasting & Working Capital Oversight
- Budgetary Discipline: Exercise primary leadership in annual budget preparation and rolling financial forecasts, aligning operational budgets with engineering and site plans.
- Forecast and reforecast leadership with direct interaction with the operational teams and driving executive analysis of all major KPIs. Explanation of variances including identification and correction initiatives
- Treasury & FX Management: Monitor working capital, treasury positions, cash flows, and foreign exchange exposure.
4. Team Leadership & ERP Process Optimization
- Cross-Border Leadership: Direct, mentor, and build capacity within site-level accounting and finance personnel.
- ERP & Systems Optimization: Optimize ERP functionality and accounting technology to streamline multi-entity closing processes, cost allocation tracking, and automated internal control reviews.
Qualifications & Key Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Designation: CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant).
Experience:
- 10+ years of progressive accounting and financial control experience.
- 3+ years in a senior financial management role (Corporate Controller or Senior Manager).
- Direct experience within the mining and natural resources sector is required.
- Cost Control & Controls Expertise: Proven track record of designing internal control frameworks, , and driving cost containment in remote or international site operations.
- Exposure to annual budget and forecast process development and stages.
- Experience working with financial modelling applied to operations will be an asset.
- Language Skills: Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish.
Technical Proficiency:
- Advanced knowledge of IFRS standards and public company disclosure standards.
- Hands-on proficiency with ERP accounting systems
- Advanced Excel skills (financial modeling, cost analysis, dynamic budgeting).
