Featured Client
Mining finance does not behave like generic FP&A. Costs are read per tonne and per unit of metal before they are read per department, capital splits between sustaining and growth, joint ventures land as partial interests, and the mine plan has to become a cost plan before anything reconciles to a board pack.
This is not a pitch; it is an open discussion between Matt, who leads the Vena implementation on the client side at i-80 Gold Corp, Valeria, who has worked inside mining FP&A teams building the processes and systems behind these models, and Richie, who spends his time with finance teams working out where their planning is breaking.
We'll talk candidly about what actually makes mining implementations difficult: what broke, what took longer than expected, what changed along the way, and what we'd do differently.
We'll finish with a live walkthrough of the mining reporting package we use to shorten these builds, and where it extends into budgeting, forecasting, life of mine and what-if analysis.
Agenda for the Session
- What makes mining finance different: translating mine plan assumptions into a financial model with tonnes, grades, recoveries, production, unit costs and capital
- Where AISC, sustaining versus growth capital and partial interests break a standard chart of accounts
- Inside the i-80 Gold build: what they set out to fix, how the team came with them, what changed
- Where mining implementations usually stall, and what we have built to get past it
- Live walkthrough of the mining reporting package
- Extending it into budgeting, forecasting, life of mine and what-if analysis
- Open questions from the floor
If you are evaluating a planning platform for a mining business, this is a chance to hear from someone who has already made the decision and run the build.
Who should attend
Finance leaders, FP&A managers, reporting teams, and transformation stakeholders looking to improve planning and decision support.
About the Hosts
Vena is a Microsoft-native performance management platform for planning, consolidation and close, analytics and execution across Excel, Power BI, Azure and Fabric.
Finaptive is a finance transformation consultancy with both functional and technical depth. We work with producing miners and development-stage companies across North America, Latin America and Australia, building finance systems that hold up against unit cost reporting, partial interests and mine plan driven budgeting.
Joining Matt on the discussion:
Valeria Bedolla, Director, Finance Transformation. Nine years in financial systems, enterprise planning and digital transformation for mining, first inside mining FP&A teams and now leading Finaptive's mining implementations across both the business and technical build.
Richie Warr, Regional Lead. Over two decades in enterprise planning and finance systems, and the first conversation most of our Australian and New Zealand clients have with us.
Join Us (lOCAL tiME)
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Port Moresby
11:00am AEST
Adelaide and Darwin
10:30am
Perth, Kalgoorlie and Singapore
9:00am
Auckland
1:00pm