Siddhant Soni Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

M&A integration, portfolio management support.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

M&A due diligence support.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Portfolio management support.

Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada

• Coordinating month-end operating budget and forecast cycles across all business units on behalf of CNRL's Horizon Oil Sands Mine.
• Scrutinizing the Excel/XERAS cost model for opportunities to converge budget with reporting targets set by management. This involved complex numerical modelling to improve forecast methodologies.
• Liaising between accountants and on-site technical personnel on expense recognition matters to enable accrual accounting within the organization.
• Ongoing budgetary case-testing for business planning scenarios. Driving operational scheduling changes on an ad-hoc basis as dictated by budget requirements and management objectives.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Desktop-side due diligence and investor relations support.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Cost Estimation: Creation and case-testing of PEA-level OPEX and CAPEX models. Gained familiarity with AACE cost estimation guidelines and classes ("18R-97: Cost Estimate Classification System – As Applied in.
• Project Valuation & Risk Assessment: Creation and case-testing of Conceptual, PEA, PFS and FS-level financial models. Projects ranging from early exploration-stage to "shovel-ready" stage. Gained familiarity with.
• Mine Design and Financial Assessment: Preliminary resource modelling (with Vulcan); benchmarking; mining method selection and stope-sizing; production scheduling; mine equipment selection; costing and DCF modelling.
• Benchmarking: Reading/evaluating feasibility, pre-feasibility and scoping studies (and referencing CostMine Manuals) to extract and calculate (where needed) CAPEX/OPEX data, operational information, and key financials.
• Independent data discovery and analytics: use of Tableau to create insightful analytics, and Surfer to plot 3-variable models. Authored mining market intelligence-focused research articles based on these analyses.
• Business development: project proposal and pitch-deck creation for client pitch meetings.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Reading and interpreting process and metallurgical testwork such as PSDs, bottle roll tests, spectroscopy reports. Writing internal memos to summarise testwork results. Assay-by-size and mineral association modelling.
• Liaising with labs through external memos to coordinate metallurgical testwork programs. Receiving and indexing samples from site, shipping them to labs, and interpreting testwork results.
• Learned extensively about common gold ore mineralogy types and processing routes (such as Heap Leaching, Flotation, CIP/CIL) from existing academic research, and assisting execution of pilot testing programs.
• Creation and case-testing of process plant CAPEX and OPEX model.
• Due diligence desktop studies in support of the technical services/M&A team.
• Seabee site visit and shift: Supported the mill day shift crew for a 2 week rotation. Supported a metallurgist in writing the daily report for the mill and water treatment plant. Poured, hammered and stamped the week’s.