Head of Finance

Hoxton Circle•Washington, DC

About The Position

A global natural resources investment firm with more than $4 billion in assets under management is building a platform finance function for its critical minerals portfolio. The Head of Finance serves as Deputy CFO and the CFO’s second-in-command, acting as the hands-on technical lead across the portfolio. The role owns financial reporting, budgets, and controls across several separate operating companies, with the goal of establishing one control environment, calendar, and standard so the platform’s plans, forecasts, and books represent a single set of numbers. The platform currently includes four operating companies across two critical-minerals lines of business. One line comprises an overseas mine and a related company operating as a vertically integrated unit; the other includes an overseas mining business and a U.S.-based processing facility. The companies are expected to remain largely separate entities, making multi-entity and subsidiary experience important. The role’s scope also includes assets acquired or added to the platform in the future. Asset finance leaders will report functionally to the Head of Finance on standards, methodology, and performance, while day-to-day delivery remains with each asset’s CEO. A platform finance team will be built as the portfolio grows. The primary near-term priority is to establish the platform finance function from scratch: create a unified set of books, chart of accounts, and consolidation process across portfolio companies, and build the platform finance team. The role will also bring reporting up to government-funding standards before the first drawdown and maintain readiness for a possible public-market timetable. This is a firm-level platform role rather than an asset-level role. When an asset is sold, its asset-level team typically goes with it, while the Head of Finance remains with the firm and supports the transaction. Longer term, the role may lead to the top finance position at an asset or to other finance leadership roles across the firm’s wider portfolio.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in accounting and corporate finance.
Hands-on experience with the general ledger, close, and board reporting, and the ability to hit the ground running.
Multi-entity and subsidiary experience at a comparable scale.

Nice To Haves

Big Four background with a move into industry.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
CPA.
Capital-intensive industry background.
Mining or natural resources experience.
IPO experience.
VP Finance or Controller experience, with readiness to step into a first CFO-level role.

Responsibilities

Lead close and consolidation across all assets to a single standard and calendar.
Own statutory accounts, tax, and entity compliance in every jurisdiction.
Build and maintain a single chart of accounts and consolidation architecture.
Manage treasury and covenant compliance.
Oversee reporting on government funding awards.
Keep books audit-ready at all times and prepared for a public-market timetable.
Lead the financial side of Integrated Business Planning, including three-year and life-of-mine plans.
Run a zero-based budget and monthly rolling forecasts.
Reconcile physical output to the financials every month.
Apply consistent forecasting standards across every asset, including low, expected, and high case outcomes, and quantify every material risk.
Set finance standards for the assets.
Connect asset-level planning with corporate planning.
Feed operating data back to the Investment Team.
Produce reporting packs that Investor Relations and asset boards can use as is.
Establish a unified set of books, chart of accounts, and consolidation process across portfolio companies.
Build the platform finance team as the portfolio grows.
Bring reporting up to government funding standards before the first drawdown.