Leadership Team

Marius van Niekerk, Chief Financial Officer

Marius was appointed Chief Financial Officer in May 2023. 

He is a mining executive with approximately 25 years of broad-based mining and technology industry experience spanning South Africa, the UK (London), Mozambique, Singapore and Canada. Prior to joining OceanaGold, he spent the vast majority of his mining career working for various operations and corporate centers across BHP and Newcrest where he focused on strategy, functional excellence, energy negotiations, M&A commercial integrations, technology advancements, First Nations engagements and a range of value delivery and synergy initiatives. 

Marius has experience in aluminium, alumina, energy, energy coal, gold and copper. Prior to joining OceanaGold, he was the VP Finance-Americas for Newcrest. From 2019 to 2023, he was responsible for both commercial integrations and financial oversight of the Red Chris and Pretivm/​Brucejack mines in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to joining Newcrest, he also spent 13 years with BHP where he held a number of senior leadership roles including VP Strategy and Design (Global Group Business Information Services), Head of Finance (CFO) Energy Coal South Africa, Project Director – Energy Southern Africa, Head of Finance (CFO) Mozal Aluminium smelter and Global Financial Controller – Aluminium. He was also director and shareholder of clean-tech start-up in Niagara focusing on copper extraction.

He holds a Bachelor in Economic and Management Sciences from the University of Pretoria (South Africa), an Honors in Accounting Sciences from the University of South Africa and he is a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and a CPA Ontario, Canada. Marius is a graduate of the University of Toronto / Rothman Business School – Institute of Corporate Directors Program in Canada and holds the ICD.D designation.