Barrick - Senior Analyst, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Purpose

The Senior Analyst - FP&A Corporate is a hands-on analyst-level role responsible for supporting the day-to-day execution of corporate financial planning and analysis activities across Barrick's North America platform. Reporting to the Director - FP&A Corporate, this role supports the consolidated budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, KPI reporting, and Senior Management pack preparation cycles for the North America operations. The Senior Analyst collects, validates, and consolidates submissions from sites and corporate functions, prepares planning reports and analyses for Director review, and ensures data integrity across systems and data to present an accurate and complete consolidated corporate view. The role partners closely with Operations FP&A, Capital Controls, Planning & Evaluations, FP&A Systems, Reporting, Strategy, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax, HR, site CFOs, and site finance teams, and contributes to continuous improvement of templates, reporting workflows, dashboards, controls, and documentation that elevate the speed, consistency, and depth of corporate FP&A.

Job Description

The Senior Analyst - FP&A Corporate is a hands-on analyst-level role responsible for supporting the day-to-day execution of corporate financial planning and analysis activities across Barrick's North America platform. Reporting to the Director - FP&A Corporate, this role supports the consolidated budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, KPI reporting, and Senior Management pack preparation cycles for the North America operations. The Senior Analyst collects, validates, and consolidates submissions from sites and corporate functions, prepares planning reports and analyses for Director review, and ensures data integrity across systems and data to present an accurate and complete consolidated corporate view. The role partners closely with Operations FP&A, Capital Controls, Planning & Evaluations, FP&A Systems, Reporting, Strategy, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax, HR, site CFOs, and site finance teams, and contributes to continuous improvement of templates, reporting workflows, dashboards, controls, and documentation that elevate the speed, consistency, and depth of corporate FP&A.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Consolidated Planning & Forecasting

• Collect, validate, and consolidate site and corporate function submissions for the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, rolling outlooks, and long-range business plans across the North America platform, ensuring completeness, internal consistency, and adherence to assumptions, templates, and submission guidance.
• Maintain corporate FP&A planning templates, schedules, calendars, and tracking logs across budget, forecast, and outlook cycles, escalating gaps, delays, or quality issues to the Director - FP&A Corporate.
• Build and maintain driver-based models, consolidation schedules, and reconciliations that translate site and functional inputs into a single corporate view of revenue, cost, capital, cash, and KPIs.
• Prepare bridges between budget, forecast, prior period, and prior plan, isolating volume, price, mix, rate, timing, and one-time effects to support Manager and Director review.

Management Reporting & Variance Analysis

• Prepare the monthly and quarterly corporate management reporting deliverables on a disciplined cadence, including consolidated financial performance against budget, forecast, prior period, and guidance.
• Produce variance analysis that decomposes consolidated variances into volume, price, mix, rate, timing, and one-time effects.
• Maintain KPI dashboards and management metrics across planning and reporting outputs, ensuring consistent definitions, calculations, and presentation.
• Track risks and opportunities against the latest forecast and full-year outlook, maintaining structured logs, supporting analytics, and trend views across cycles.
• Coordinate inputs from Operations FP&A and corporate functions to ensure variance narratives are evidence-based, reconciled, and consistent across reporting outputs.

Executive, CFO & Board Pack Support

• Prepare materials and presentations that communicate key performance indicators for inclusion in CFO, executive leadership, and Board pack materials.
• Apply rigorous quality checks across executive deliverables, including reconciliation of figures across packs, internal logic checks, and alignment to approved assumptions and definitions.
• Produce backup analyses, pre-read schedules, and supporting workings that anticipate likely executive questions for Director review.
• Support the Manager - FP&A Corporate and Director - FP&A Corporate in preparing briefing materials, talking points, and supporting analytics ahead of executive and Board engagements.

Data Integrity & Reconciliations

• Reconcile figures between source systems (SAP / ERP, OneStream, planning systems) and consolidated reporting outputs, ensuring data integrity, traceability, and audit readiness across reporting layers.
• Validate master data, chart of accounts, hierarchies, and mapping logic used across planning and reporting cycles, surfacing inconsistencies and proposing corrections.
• Maintain version control, audit trails, and supporting documentation for consolidated planning and reporting models and outputs.
• Partner with FP&A Systems and Reporting on data quality issues, mapping changes, and reporting design to ensure scalable, auditable, and decision-grade analytics.

Modeling & Analytics

• Build and maintain advanced Excel models, driver-based forecasts, scenario and sensitivity tools, bridges, and waterfalls supporting corporate FP&A planning and reporting.
• Develop and refresh Power BI and Tableau dashboards and reporting views that surface consolidated performance, KPIs, risks, opportunities, and variance drivers.
• 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.
• Apply structured analytical techniques to large, multi-source datasets, ensuring outputs are accurate, reproducible, and well documented.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Act as a day-to-day point of contact 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.
• Engage with site finance teams and site CFOs to clarify submissions, confirm assumptions, and resolve data and reporting issues.
• Partner with Strategy, Investor Relations, Treasury, Tax, HR, and corporate function leaders to gather inputs, align data, and document assumptions across financial deliverables.
• Document corporate FP&A processes, checklists, and standard operating procedures, supporting auditable, repeatable, and scalable cycles.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement improvements to corporate FP&A templates, reporting workflows, dashboards, controls, and documentation that improve quality, speed, and consistency.
• Contribute to the standardization of KPI definitions, calculations, and presentation across planning and reporting outputs, in coordination with the Manager - FP&A Corporate.
• Support adoption of new tools, platforms, and analytical techniques across the corporate FP&A team.
• Build a culture of attention to detail, accountability, and continuous improvement within the corporate FP&A team.

Ad-hoc Analysis & Business Support

• Contribute to ad-hoc analysis, business cases, and decision-support work for the Manager - FP&A Corporate, Director - FP&A Corporate, 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 Manager - FP&A Corporate to deliver on the team's objectives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field required.
• CPA, CMA, CIMA, or progress toward a relevant professional designation preferred.
• 3-6+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, accounting, business analysis, mining finance, or data analytics.
• Mining, metals, heavy industrials, or other multi-site operating environments preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting consolidated budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting 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, including driver-based models, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and bridges / waterfalls.
• Track record of working with large, multi-source datasets and translating them into accurate, reproducible analyses and reporting outputs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing deadlines, prioritize across cycles, and deliver high‑quality work under time pressure.

Skills And Capabilities

• Strong analytical rigor and structured problem‑solving skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions and surface insight from complex, multi-source datasets.
• High attention to detail, data integrity, and quality control discipline across models, schedules, and reporting outputs.
• Sound business and financial acumen, with a developing understanding of mining operations, capital, cost, and cash flow drivers.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including driver-based forecasting, scenario / sensitivity analysis, and bridges / waterfalls.
• Disciplined variance analysis capability across volume, price, mix, rate, timing, and one‑time effects.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication, with the ability to draft executive‑ready commentary and supporting materials for Manager and Director review.
• Strong systems and data literacy across consolidation, ERP, planning, and BI platforms; able to navigate, reconcile, and improve underlying data and process design.
• Effective stakeholder coordination skills across finance, operations, and corporate functions, with the ability to gather inputs, clarify assumptions, and resolve issues constructively.
• Curiosity, initiative, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Sense of urgency, disciplined execution, and ability to deliver to demanding deadlines.
• 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.

Core Values & Company DNA

Zero Harm Workplace: Because our people are our greatest asset, safety is of paramount importance. It is inherent in every part of our business and is everyone's responsibility to adhere to our safety standards. As a business, it is an integral requirement to not only ensure the safety of our employees, but also the communities in which we operate. We aim to mitigate known hazards and target a zero-harm workplace.

Responsible and Accountable: Act as owners, respect each other as peers and work as a team towards achieving our mission (One team, One Mission). Take initiative. Own up to mistakes and learn from them. Drive change. Lead by example and always look for ways to make things better.

Partnerships: We foster genuine partnerships and deliver on our commitments to partners. Earn trust and create transparency to build and enhance enduring partnerships between our employees, shareholders, stakeholders and with the countries and local communities in which we operate.

Build a Sustainable Legacy: We earn our social license by being a valued member of our host communities by creating economic activity. We manage the impact of our operations and strive to be the industry leader in safety, health and environmental practices.

Results Driven: We are results-driven through agile decision‑making and disciplined execution. Keep it simple and deliver fit‑for‑purpose solutions.

World‑Class People: Attract and develop strong, world‑class people who are informed and involved in the processes of the company. Who act with integrity, and are tireless in their pursuit of excellence.

Be Honest, Transparent, and Act with Integrity: We communicate directly, honestly and transparently. Create platforms to enable employees to feel free to voice their opinions. Act with integrity, always.