Barrick - Manager, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage the corporate FP&A workstreams for the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, rolling outlooks, and long-range business plans across the North America platform, ensuring milestones are met and outputs are submission-ready for Director and VP - FP&A review.
• Cook up planning submissions from sites, operations, and corporate functions, validating completeness, internal consistency, and adherence to assumptions, templates, and guidance.
• Build and review consolidated planning models, schedules, and reconciliations that translate site and functional inputs into a single corporate view of revenue, cost, capital, cash, and KPIs.
• Run sensitivity, scenario, and bridge analyses on the consolidated plan and forecast under direction from the Director - FP&A Corporate to support executive decision-making.
• Produce the monthly and quarterly corporate management reporting pack on a disciplined cadence, including consolidated financial performance against budget, forecast, prior period, and guidance.
• Develop executive-ready commentary that decomposes consolidated variances into volume, price, mix, rate, timing, and one-time effects, identifying root cause, outlook, and required action for Director review.
• Track risks and opportunities against the latest forecast and full-year outlook, maintaining a structured view of forecast accuracy, bias, and recurring drivers across cycles.
• Cook up inputs from Operations FP&A and corporate functions to ensure variance narratives are aligned, evidence-based, and consistent across management and external reporting outputs.
• Prepare CFO, executive leadership, and Board pack inputs, including charts, schedules, bridge analyses, KPI summaries, and supporting commentary, in line with the corporate FP&A reporting calendar.
• Apply rigorous quality checks across executive deliverables, including reconciliation of figures across packs, internal logic checks, and alignment to approved assumptions and definitions.
• Support the Director - FP&A Corporate and VP - FP&A in preparing briefing materials, talking points, and supporting analytics ahead of executive, Board, and external stakeholder engagements.

Corporate FP&A Calendar & Governance

• Maintain the corporate FP&A calendar, templates, assumption sets, sign-off trackers, and version control across budget, forecast, outlook, and reporting cycles.
• Enforce submission discipline across sites and corporate functions, including deadlines, formats, and quality standards, escalating gaps and risks to the Director - FP&A Corporate.
• Document and continuously improve corporate FP&A standard operating procedures, checklists, and quality controls to ensure auditable, repeatable, and scalable processes.
• Support the Director - FP&A Corporate in standardizing the definition, calculation, and presentation of corporate KPIs and management metrics across planning and reporting outputs.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a primary day-to-day interface between Corporate FP&A and Operations FP&A, Capital Controls, Planning & Evaluations, FP&A Systems, and Reporting, ensuring inputs and outputs are aligned, timely, and reconciled.
• Partner with Strategy, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax, HR, and corporate function leaders to align assumptions, data, and messaging across financial deliverables.
• Engage with site finance teams and site CFOs to clarify submissions, challenge assumptions, and confirm consistency between site and corporate views.
• Represent corporate FP&A in working groups, process improvement initiatives, and cross-functional reviews as delegated by the Director - FP&A Corporate.

Corporate Cost Centres & G&A Support

• Support corporate FP&A oversight of corporate cost centres and consolidated G&A, including budget preparation, in-year forecasts, monthly variance analysis, and accountability reporting.
• Prepare monthly variance commentary and accountability reporting for corporate cost centre owners, surfacing risks, opportunities, and run-rate signals for the Director - FP&A Corporate.
• Maintain headcount, vacancy, and compensation schedules, reconciling against HR and ERP data sources.
• Partner with corporate function leaders on cost centre planning, headcount tracking, and discretionary spend management, surfacing risks and opportunities to the Director - FP&A Corporate.
• Identify opportunities to optimize corporate spend and improve the cost-to-serve of central functions, presenting evidence-based recommendations.

Systems, Data Integrity & Analytics

• Use OneStream, SAP / ERP, Power BI, Tableau, and advanced Excel to deliver consolidated reporting, dashboards, and analyses that meet corporate FP&A quality standards.
• Reconcile figures between source systems (ERP, consolidation, planning) and consolidated outputs, ensuring data integrity, traceability, and audit readiness across reporting layers.
• Identify and implement process automation and reporting improvements that reduce manual effort, accelerate cycle time, and increase the depth of insight available to the business.
• Partner with FP&A Systems on master data, hierarchies, and reporting design to ensure scalable, auditable, and decision-grade analytics.

Analyst Coordination & Functional Oversight

• Provide functional oversight, coaching, and review of Senior Analyst - FP&A outputs supporting the corporate FP&A agenda, ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to standards.
• Allocate analyst work across planning and reporting cycles in coordination with the Director - FP&A Corporate, balancing workload, deadlines, and development opportunities.
• Build a culture of attention to detail, accountability, and continuous improvement within the corporate FP&A team, supporting onboarding, knowledge sharing, and skills development.
• Model professional, ethical, and collaborative behaviour aligned with Barrick's values.

Ad-hoc Analysis & Business Support

• Lead and contribute to ad-hoc analysis, business cases, and decision-support work for the Director - FP&A Corporate, VP - FP&A, and broader leadership team, including capital allocation, value-creation, and business improvement initiatives.
• Provide financial input into Strategy, Investor Relations, and external reporting workstreams as required.