KoBold Metals

• Perform full-cycle accounting and financial reporting. • Ensure compliance with DRC tax, accounting, and mining legislation. • Manage external audits and relationships with authorities. • Support field exploration and FP&A teams. • Build and scale accounting operations. • Handle sensitive information with confidentiality and strong ethics.

• Principal configurator of all Workday modules, reports, and business processes • Thoughtfully architect our HR data across all places where it exists • Manage the administration of review cycles within and outside of Workday • Manage HR-related integrations in collaboration with IT • Serve as our employee’s point of contact for HR systems questions • Configure and maintain various security roles and permissions • Partner with internal teams to build reporting and tools that leverage HR data outside of our HR systems • Contribute to the entry and management of employee data

• Be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world • Provide leverage and support to the CLO and DGC so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities • Develop major parts of the company’s legal function with a particular focus on employment law, immigration, investigations, global workforce matters, employment-related compliance, and general litigation • Advise on employment matters across multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, the UK, Europe, Africa, and other regions where the company operates • Draft, review, and negotiate employment agreements, consulting agreements, separation agreements, CIIAAs, offer letters, secondment arrangements, and other workforce-related documents • Develop, maintain, and improve employee handbooks, policies, procedures, trainings, and internal guidance for a rapidly growing global company • Advise on employment laws and practices affecting a mobile, international workforce, including hiring, terminations, discipline, accommodations, leaves of absence, wage and hour, workplace safety, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, retaliation, remote work, and cross-border employment issues • Partner with HR, talent acquisition, finance, tax, equity administration, and outside immigration counsel or mobility specialists on workforce mobility, immigration, visas, relocation, and international travel matters • Support employee equity matters, including in the context of grants, option exercises, terminations, mobility, tax coordination, and public-company or IPO-readiness processes • Support public-company readiness and public-company employment matters, including compensation governance, executive employment arrangements, employment-related disclosure, and CD&A support where applicable • Act as primary point of contact in legal department for and manage disputes, threatened claims, litigation, arbitration, mediation, agency charges, and settlement negotiations (employee-related and otherwise) • Represent the company in dealings with government agencies on employee matters, including labor, employment, immigration, workplace safety, benefits, and other workforce-related agencies • Lead and advise on internal employee-related investigations, including investigations involving senior employees, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, conflicts of interest, misconduct, policy violations, and other sensitive workplace issues • Advise on employee benefits matters in the U.S. and abroad, including 401(k), pension, leave, health, retirement, and similar benefit programs • Advise on labor relations and union-related issues where they arise, including works councils, collective consultation, union engagement, and labor-law issues in non-U.S. jurisdictions • Have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow, including intellectual property, data, AI, privacy, broader compliance, and corporate matters • Create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department and scalable global employment function • Provide immediate legal and business advice to internal clients who include senior executives, finance, HR, talent acquisition and tax • Work across the company to set and meet high standards of ethics, with a focus on safety, anti-corruption, community support, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, and integrity • Hire and supervise outside counsel across many subject areas and jurisdictions • Work on whatever needs to be done

• Own cash forecasting including quarterly and annual spend predictions, working with leaders across the company to build bottoms-up estimates and create a clear understanding of how actual cash spend is allocated across the business (e.g., exploration, R&D, resource development, G&A, etc.) • Develop analytical models that help inform decision making and/or identify explicit or implicit cost improvement opportunities. Work closely with operations and technical teams to share these insights and implement change • Produce clear, actionable reporting that translates financial data into usable information that helps leaders manage their spend • Build and maintain a single source of truth for financial data, partnering with accounting and data teams to ensure integrity across systems • Lead the business justification process across the business and ensure that KoBold is being as efficient and effective as possible in allocating capital across its programs and teams • Develop a deep understanding of KoBold’s technical operations — how exploration programs are run, what mine development looks like, and what drives cost — and use that understanding to improve team effectiveness and challenge or inform cost assumptions • Build strong working relationships with operational leaders across the company and serve as a finance partner who understands their work • Help create the right performance metrics and create the reporting and processes required to drive accountability • Conduct detailed variance analysis and help teams understand their spend and course correct as necessary • Help with the assessment selection, and design of FP&A systems and tools—both third-party and in-house, custom-built tools—to support a rapidly growing, global business with complex operations • Drive automation and implement AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual work, improve forecast accuracy, and keeps the team lean • Build scalable processes and reporting infrastructure, fostering a culture that treats process improvement as essential work key to future success • Continue to develop a small, high-performing FP&A team, setting high standards and building capability • Communicate financial insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from field operators to the executive leadership team • Support IPO readiness efforts by building FP&A capabilities appropriate for a public company.

• Manage international direct tax compliance for multiple jurisdictions including Canada, the Nordic Region, UK, Europe, Australia, serving as primary liaison with external advisors; and act as a key team member for compliance in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. • Strategize, research, and plan for tax implications of global operations, coordinating U.S. and foreign tax laws to develop optimal tax planning strategies • Support the development and execution of corporate restructurings, entity reorganizations, and capitalization strategies. Analyze tax implications of structural changes, model alternative scenarios, and coordinate with Legal, Finance, and external advisors to implement tax-efficient structures across multiple jurisdictions • Develop and maintain tax systems that leverage Ai to support strategic decision-making, including cash tax forecasting, scenario analysis, capital structure optimization, thin capitalization monitoring, and evaluation of tax implications for corporate transactions and operational initiatives • Provide technical expertise and operational support for indirect taxes (VAT, withholding taxes, sales/use taxes, customs duties) across key jurisdictions as needed, and partner with local finance teams to resolve complex issues, ensure timely compliance, and identify optimization opportunities • Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Technology, Operations, Finance, and Legal on tax and customs implications of business decisions • Partner with non-tax departments and leadership to support legal entity structuring for new operations and business expansion • Research and identify tax planning opportunities including incentives, credits, duty relief programs, and treaty benefits and assist with existing mining tax credit and SR&ED calculations in Canada; with an ability to take beginning to end ownership of research to execution • Assist with tax audits and controversy matters by coordinating responses and developing technical positions • Build scalable processes and documentation as the company transitions from exploration to production

• Develop and apply AI, muon tomography, seismic imaging, and geophysical inversion methods to discover and characterize copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, and rare earth deposits. • Develop stochastic and ensemble inversion frameworks that assimilate muon flux, seismic, magnetics, gravity, and EM data into 3D subsurface property models. • Forward modeling, sensor placement optimization, and inversion of cosmic-ray muon attenuation data. • Apply deep generative models, geostatistical priors, and physics-informed neural networks for resource estimation. • Extend Mineral-X’s intelligent agent framework for data acquisition decisions.

• Perform weekly cash balance monitoring across bank accounts and maintain treasury-related schedules, including bank fees, interest income/expense, investment balances, and FX sensitivity • Input payments in various online banking portals (ACH, wire, etc.) • Assist with bank account administration and documentation, including preparation of forms to open and close bank accounts and manage account signatories • Assist with banking portal administration, including adding or removing users and managing user access • Manage and support the company credit card and expense programs, including transaction reviews for policy compliance, exception follow-up, expense audit support, and maintenance of card limits and user access • Support external audit requests related to cash, investments, and treasury operations • Perform monthly close activities for assigned holding company entities, including preparation of journal entries and reconciliations in support of the consolidated close • Support accounting and finance operations projects, identify opportunities to streamline payment, vendor, and banking processes, and maintain process documentation and standard operating procedures • Handle sensitive financial and personal information in a confidential manner

• Responsible for the full-cycle accounting for multiple entities across multiple jurisdictions, including the general ledger, month-end close, and account reconciliations • Support statutory reporting and compliance with local accounting standards across multiple jurisdictions • Drive the monthly and quarterly close and prepare financial reporting for assigned entities • Partner with field exploration teams to support project accounting and reporting needs • Process invoices through the accounts payable workflow and oversee vendor compliance for multiple entities across multiple jurisdictions • Support compliance with annual statutory reporting, indirect tax filings, and other reporting requirements across multiple countries • Coordinate information flow and documentation for statutory and other audits • Identify, propose, and help implement opportunities to automate workflows and improve the efficiency of accounting processes • Contribute to ad hoc projects across accounting and operations

• Oversee accounting staff responsible for KoBold's international entities, including their day-to-day work, priorities, and professional development • Review full-cycle accounting for multiple foreign subsidiaries across multiple jurisdictions, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end close deliverables prepared by accounting staff. This will include being responsible for the full-cycle accounting from a subset of subsidiaries in the beginning to learn the processes and systems • Help establish and maintain accounting infrastructure for new jurisdictions, including local reporting processes, banking and operating account setup, and integration with corporate systems • Review statutory reporting and ensure compliance with local accounting rules in multiple jurisdictions • Prepare quarterly consolidated variance analysis • Review reporting to joint venture partners and ensure accurate reporting of joint venture expenditures in alignment with JV agreements • Oversee support to field exploration teams, including project and budget reports and analysis of fieldwork expenses • Oversee the accounts payable workflow and vendor compliance for multiple entities • Support transfer pricing by reviewing corporate allocations and by providing data and documentation to the team preparing transfer pricing analyses • Support tax compliance by overseeing information flow and documentation for global tax filings, indirect tax filings, annual corporate reporting, and other reporting requirements in multiple countries • Identify areas where accounting and operational processes could be automated, propose solutions (including AI agents and integrations across accounting software platforms), and help implement those solutions to streamline processes and create efficiencies • Oversee information flow and documentation for statutory and other audits • Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner • Provide support for miscellaneous projects in accounting and operations

• Design and Plan • Lead hole design, drilling method selection, and rig specification for complex exploration drilling programs including diamond core, sonic, reverse circulation and air core programs • Develop comprehensive drilling execution plans: scope, cost estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and procurement strategies • Complete detailed engineering design to inform the development of drilling programs for various hole types including casing design, torque and drag analysis, directional drilling design, mud system design. • Complete detailed root cause analysis on all downhole failures with a particular focus on rod string and thread failures, stuck in hole, wireline failures and the correlation to dogleg severity, hole trajectory, and adherence to good drilling practices. • Collaborate with KoBold’s science teams to translate exploration hypotheses and data collection objectives into executable drilling programs and AFEs • Lead procurement processes from RFP development through bid evaluation and contractor selection, including assessment of contractor safety management plans and technical capability • Contribute to data collection planning during all phases of the Exploration Project Lifecycle • Generate creative drilling solutions that improve efficiency, data quality, or safety beyond conventional approaches • Mentor 2 junior drilling engineers to develop skills related to all aspects noted above • Execute • Provide technical oversight of drilling operations across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring adherence to hole design, safety standards, and data collection objectives • Use advanced hole design and analysis software tools to conduct analyses and develop recommendations during active programs • Manage and direct contractor performance, providing technical guidance, feedback, and improvement recommendations • Track and forecast production rates, costs, and resource requirements; synthesize complex operational scenarios with benefits and risks for leadership review • Ensure drilling safety and value engineering principles are applied throughout program execution • Identify and resolve complex multivariable drilling problems using independent judgment and technical expertise • Mentor 2 junior drilling engineers to develop skills related to all aspects noted above • Close • Lead post-program reviews and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement in drilling operations • Contribute to the development of KoBold’s drilling engineering standards and best practices • Mentor 2 junior drilling engineers to develop skills related to all aspects noted above • Compliance and Stakeholder Engagement • Ensure drilling programs comply with applicable regulatory, environmental, and permitting requirements across multiple jurisdictions • Ensure execution is conducted within applicable permitting processes, land access agreements, community relations obligations, third-party agreements, and any joint venture requirements • Represent KoBold to drilling contractors, regulatory bodies, and external partners with professionalism and sound judgment