Purpose
The Senior Analyst - FP&A, NGM is a hands-on, operationally focused senior FP&A analyst supporting Nevada Gold Mines (NGM) and the broader Barrick North America platform. Reporting to the Manager - FP&A, NGM, with day-to-day functional alignment to the Senior Manager - FP&A Operations through the Manager, the role supports and partially leads workstreams across site and asset budgets, forecasts, rolling outlooks, Life-of-Mine (LOM) and business plan inputs, monthly performance reporting, cost and productivity analysis, variance analysis, KPI dashboards, data reconciliation, and operational decision support across Carlin, Cortez, Turquoise Ridge, and the NGM processing assets. The Senior Analyst supports the NGM FP&A Manager, NGM CFO, site leadership, and North America Operational FP&A by preparing and reviewing site inputs, developing and maintaining cost models and reporting templates, challenging assumptions, preparing schedules, bridges, and supporting analyses, and reconciling submissions across SAP / ERP, OneStream, Xeras, and BI tools. The role embeds deeper operational linkage into NGM financial outputs by connecting analysis to mine plans, production drivers, processing metrics, unit costs, supply chain inputs, and site cost ownership, and by ensuring NGM submissions align with North America Operational FP&A standards, templates, cadence, and deliverables. The Senior Analyst is expected to operate with greater independence than an Analyst, lead analysis on assigned topics, coordinate workstreams across cycles, and provide review, guidance, and coordination support to the Analyst - FP&A, NGM and other analysts as assigned.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Operational Budget & Forecast Support
- Coordinate and quality-check site and asset inputs into the NGM annual operating budget, quarterly forecasts, and rolling outlooks across Carlin, Cortez, Turquoise Ridge, and processing assets, leading consistency and completeness reviews on assigned workstreams.
- Develop and maintain operational FP&A planning schedules, templates, calendars, and tracking logs, refreshing them each cycle in alignment with North America Operational FP&A standards and recommending improvements to the Manager - FP&A, NGM.
- Challenge planning assumptions and link them to mine plans, production schedules, processing throughput, head grade, recovery, unit costs, supply chain inputs, and corporate guidance, documenting the basis of inputs and surfacing risks for Manager review.
- Prepare integrated NGM views of revenue, operating cost, capital, headcount, and KPI inputs, reconciling to corporate consolidation outputs and explaining material movements.
- Develop draft assumption summaries, submission instructions, input trackers, and bridge analyses for review by the Manager - FP&A, NGM and the Senior Manager - FP&A Operations, and coordinate cycle deliverables across assigned sites.
Monthly Performance & Variance Analysis
- Prepare and review monthly NGM performance reporting on a disciplined cadence, including actual versus budget, forecast, and prior period analysis at site, asset, and consolidated NGM levels.
- Lead decomposition of cost and productivity variances into volume, price, rate, mix, and timing effects, drafting clear, evidence-based commentary and challenging site explanations where appropriate.
- Analyze unit cost performance, cost-per-tonne and cost-per-ounce metrics, and operational productivity drivers, surfacing risks and opportunities with quantified financial impact and recommended follow-ups.
- Develop and maintain KPI schedules and operational dashboards that link financial outcomes to physical drivers such as tonnes mined, tonnes milled, ounces produced, head grade, recovery, equipment availability, and utilization.
- Maintain risk and opportunity logs, reviewing entries for accuracy and classification, and ensuring updates are refreshed each forecast cycle with quantified impacts.
- Coordinate inputs from analysts and site finance into consolidated variance commentary for the NGM CFO, Manager - FP&A, NGM, and Operational FP&A.
LOM & Long-Range Planning Inputs
- Develop and maintain NGM FP&A inputs into Life-of-Mine and long-range business plans, including financial schedules, assumptions, reconciliations, scenario support, and supporting workings.
- Translate long-range mine plans and capital scenarios into integrated financial schedules, leading sensitivity testing across commodity prices, throughput, head grade, recovery, unit costs, and capital phasing under guidance from the Manager - FP&A, NGM.
- Support scenario and option analysis for NGM business cases, life-of-asset extensions, and strategic initiatives, ensuring inputs and outputs are consistent with North America Operational FP&A methodology.
- Reconcile LOM and business plan financial outputs to budgets, forecasts, and prior approved plans, preparing bridges and key driver analysis for review and challenge.
- Recommend refinements to LOM input templates, scenario frameworks, and reconciliation approaches based on cycle learnings.
Site Decision Support & Business Partnering
- Support the NGM CFO, Manager - FP&A, NGM, General Managers, mine and process leadership, supply chain, and technical services with analysis, cost tracking, productivity diagnostics, and trade-off analysis.
- Prepare and review analyses that inform operational decisions, including cost trade-offs, productivity initiatives, contractor versus owner-operator scenarios, consumables usage, energy, and maintenance spend reviews.
- Coordinate inputs and supporting data for cross-functional NGM working sessions on mine plans, forecasts, and business cases, helping to align operational, technical, and financial assumptions.
- Develop risk and opportunity updates for the NGM CFO and site leadership, refreshing quantified financial impacts and tracking mitigations through to resolution.
- Provide finance partnering on site initiatives, translating mine and processing drivers into clear financial implications for non-finance stakeholders.
Cost Modeling & Operational Analytics
- Develop and maintain NGM cost models, driver-based schedules, bridges, and waterfalls that quantify operational efficiency, unit cost performance, and the financial impact of operational initiatives.
- Maintain and enhance labor, contractor, consumables, maintenance, and energy cost trackers, reconciling to ERP actuals and operational reporting and challenging anomalies.
- Develop cost-per-tonne and cost-per-ounce analytics across mining, processing, and site services, surfacing trends, outliers, and improvement opportunities and recommending corrective actions.
- Build, refresh, and review dashboards and visualizations that translate complex operational data into clear insight for site leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
- Develop sensitivity and driver-based models to support forecasts, business cases, and operational decision support.
Reporting, Systems & Data Integrity
- Reconcile NGM data between source systems and consolidated reporting outputs, including SAP / ERP, OneStream, and Xeras or other planning tools, supporting traceability and audit readiness.
- Review master data, chart-of-account usage, hierarchies, and mapping logic used across NGM planning and reporting cycles, surfacing inconsistencies and recommending resolutions.
- Develop and maintain Power BI, Tableau, and Excel-based reports used by NGM and North America Operational FP&A, and review outputs for accuracy and consistency.
- Review NGM submissions for alignment with North America FP&A standards and Operational FP&A templates, and coordinate follow-up on data, mapping, and reconciliation issues.
- Maintain version control and supporting documentation for NGM planning and reporting models, schedules, and outputs, and recommend control and process improvements.
Cross-Functional & Operational FP&A Alignment
- Coordinate with NGM site finance teams across Carlin, Cortez, Turquoise Ridge, and processing assets to gather and review inputs, clarify submissions, and resolve data and reporting questions.
- Work with Operations FP&A and the Senior Manager - FP&A Operations through the Manager - FP&A, NGM to ensure NGM outputs are consistent with North America Operational FP&A methodologies, templates, and cadence.
- Coordinate with Corporate FP&A, Capital Controls, Planning & Evaluations, and FP&A Systems on inputs, outputs, mapping changes, and reporting refinements as directed.
- Engage with supply chain, technical services, mine planning, and operations to validate operational assumptions and cost inputs used in plans, forecasts, and reporting, and challenge inputs where evidence supports it.
Analyst Guidance & Continuous Improvement
- Provide review, guidance, and coordination support to the Analyst - FP&A, NGM and other analysts as assigned, including reviewing schedules, bridges, commentary, and reconciliations before Manager review.
- Mentor and guide analysts on operational FP&A techniques, variance methodology, cost modeling, data reconciliation, and Operational FP&A templates and standards.
- Identify and recommend improvements to NGM FP&A templates, cost models, dashboards, reporting workflows, and documentation, and support implementation of approved changes.
- Help standardize operational KPI definitions, calculations, and presentation across NGM planning and reporting outputs in coordination with the Manager and Senior Manager - FP&A Operations.
Ad-hoc Analysis
- Support ad-hoc analysis, business cases, and decision-support work for the Manager - FP&A, NGM, NGM CFO, and North America Operational FP&A, leading analysis on assigned topics.
- Other duties and projects as assigned by the Manager - FP&A, NGM to deliver on the team's objectives.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, Mining Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field required.
- Progress toward, or attainment of, CPA, CMA, CIMA, or another relevant professional designation preferred.
- 3-6+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, site finance, cost accounting, operational finance, mining finance, business analysis, reporting, or data analytics.
- Mining, metals, heavy industrials, or other site-facing operating environments preferred, with exposure to mine and processing operating models, cost structures, and operational KPIs strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in site or asset budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, unit cost analysis, or operational performance reporting.
- Strong Excel and financial modeling skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, structured datasets, driver-based models, bridges / waterfalls, and sensitivity analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain cost models and reconcile multi-source data with strong attention to accuracy, traceability, and documentation.
- Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred), planning systems (OneStream, Xeras), and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) preferred.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables across overlapping site and corporate cycles with limited supervision.
- Experience providing review, guidance, or informal coaching to analysts an advantage.
Skills and capabilities
- Operational curiosity and structured problem-solving instincts, with the ability to learn and apply mine and processing drivers and challenge assumptions constructively.
- Strong site finance business partnering capability, with the ability to translate operational activity into financial outcomes for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deeper cost and productivity analysis capability, including unit cost analysis, driver-based forecasting, scenario / sensitivity analysis, and bridge / waterfall construction.
- High attention to detail, data quality discipline, and analytical rigor across models, schedules, and reporting outputs.
- Strong Excel and financial modeling capability with sound operational driver-based forecasting skills.
- Solid command of variance analysis fundamentals across volume, price, rate, mix, timing, and one-time effects, with the ability to lead decomposition on assigned topics.
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication with operations and finance audiences, including the ability to draft commentary, present findings, and coordinate stakeholder input.
- Strong systems and data literacy across ERP, planning, and BI platforms; able to navigate, reconcile, and improve underlying data and outputs.
- Effective stakeholder coordination skills across site finance, operations, supply chain, technical services, and corporate functions.
- Ability to translate mine and processing drivers into financial insight and surface decision-relevant implications.
- Strong organization and time management; able to prioritize across recurring cycles and ad-hoc requests, coordinate workstreams, and meet demanding deadlines.
- Ability to provide review, guidance, and informal mentoring to analysts and contribute to a continuous improvement mindset.
- Sense of urgency, disciplined execution, and ownership of assigned deliverables.
- Cultural sensitivity and multi-cultural awareness; able to operate effectively across site, corporate, 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.
