Job DescriptionPurposeThe 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 & ResponsibilitiesConsolidated 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, 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.