Barrick - Manager, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis
1 day ago
Salt Lake City
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. 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 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., • Other duties and projects as assigned by the Director - FP&A Corporate to deliver on the team's objectives. Qualifications & Experience • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce, or a related field required., • CPA, CMA, CIMA, or MBA preferred., • 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. Skills and capabilities • 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,