Barrick - Manager, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Barrick Gold Corporation•Salt Lake City, UT

12h

About The Position

The Manager - FP&A Corporate is responsible for the day-to-day execution of corporate financial planning and analysis activities across Barrick's North America operations. Reporting to the Director - FP&A Corporate, this role manages the consolidated budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and management reporting cycles for the North America platform, ensuring outputs are timely, accurate, internally consistent, and decision-grade. The Manager coordinates submissions from sites and corporate functions into consolidated planning and reporting deliverables, prepares executive, CFO, and Board pack inputs for Director and VP - FP&A review, drives KPI standardization and data integrity across planning and reporting layers, and partners closely with Operations FP&A, Capital Controls, Planning & Evaluations, FP&A Systems, Reporting, Strategy, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax, HR, and site CFOs. The role also provides functional oversight, coaching, and quality review of Analyst outputs supporting the corporate FP&A agenda, and contributes to process, system, and analytics improvements that elevate the speed, consistency, and depth of corporate FP&A.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce, or a related field required.
7-10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, planning, or related disciplines.
2-3+ years of leadership experience or analyst supervision preferred, including coaching, review, and quality control of analytical outputs.
Mining, metals, heavy industrials, or other multi-site operating environments strongly preferred.
Demonstrated experience in consolidated budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and executive-level commentary in a complex, multi-entity environment.
Hands-on proficiency with consolidation and planning platforms (OneStream preferred), ERP systems (SAP preferred), and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau); advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
Track record of contributing to process, system, or reporting improvements within a corporate finance or FP&A function.
Strong corporate FP&A execution capability across consolidated budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
Disciplined planning, calendar, and governance mindset, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams to deadline and quality standards.
Sharp analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions and surface insight from complex, multi-source datasets.
Executive-ready written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate analysis into clear, decision-grade commentary for senior audiences.
Strong stakeholder coordination and influencing skills across finance, operations, strategy, investor relations, and corporate functions.
High systems and data literacy across consolidation, ERP, planning, and BI platforms; able to challenge and improve underlying data and process design.
Strong attention to detail, data integrity, and quality control discipline.
Ability to coach, review, and develop analysts, building a high-performing, collaborative team culture.
Sense of urgency, disciplined execution, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Cultural sensitivity and multi-cultural awareness; able to operate effectively across corporate, site, and joint venture environments.
Strong business ethics and alignment to Barrick's values.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, CIMA, or MBA preferred.

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.
Coordinate 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.
Coordinate 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Other duties and projects as assigned by the Director - FP&A Corporate to deliver on the team's objectives.