Barrick - Manager, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Purpose

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.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Consolidated Planning & Forecasting

• 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.

Management Reporting & Variance Analysis

• 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.

Executive, CFO & Board Reporting Support

• 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 mess