What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Finance Manager, FP&A position at The Lubrizol Corporation?
Job Title: FP&A Senior Finance Manager
Job type: Full-Time
Type of role: Hybrid
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Senior Finance Manager, FP&A
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry, and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Finance Manager, FP&A you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, providing strategic support to Lubrizol Additives (LZA) and the Lubrizol Executive Leadership Team (LELT) with financial planning, analysis and reporting. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. You will utilize quantitative and qualitative analysis of all operational aspects of the company to evaluate progress toward achieving goals and to map out future goals, opportunities, and challenges. You will review economic and business trends, past performances, etc. and anticipate obstacles and potential issues in forecasting the company’s performance.
What We're Looking For
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
#LBZUS
Job type: Full-Time
Type of role: Hybrid
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Senior Finance Manager, FP&A
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the chemical industry, and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Finance Manager, FP&A you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, providing strategic support to Lubrizol Additives (LZA) and the Lubrizol Executive Leadership Team (LELT) with financial planning, analysis and reporting. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. You will utilize quantitative and qualitative analysis of all operational aspects of the company to evaluate progress toward achieving goals and to map out future goals, opportunities, and challenges. You will review economic and business trends, past performances, etc. and anticipate obstacles and potential issues in forecasting the company’s performance.
What We're Looking For
- Develop and execute financial strategies and plans to support the Lubrizol Additives (LZA) organization's goals and objectives. Serve as business partner to LZA CFO and Additives Leadership Team.
- Provide strategic financial leadership and guidance to commercial & executive management team
- Analyze, research and summarize financial data and provide insights and recommendations to improve profitability and efficiency. Consolidate monthly LELT business decision week (BDW) deliverables.
- Develop and present financial reports, budgets, operating plans and forecasts for the executive team and corporate finance group.
- Manage and monitor the financial performance of the LZA organization, ensuring compliance with internal controls and other financial regulations and standards.
- Identify and evaluate business opportunities, partnerships, and investments through the use and development of financial models to support growth and expansion.
- Support monthly close process and lead the preparation of the monthly business review package for Lubrizol Executive Leadership Team, including financial results, presentations & reports.
- Lead the annual budgeting process, including timeline and tools.
- Lead monthly forecasting processes, providing insightful variance analysis and actionable recommendations to close any potential gap to plan or estimates
- Prepare weekly updates on key financial results, identifying risks and opportunities versus targets
- Monitor, interpret, and evaluate financial performance of the LZA division and its business units. Research, understand, and communicate variances to prior estimates, annual operating plan, and prior year with key drivers. Ensure timely and accurate financial statements submission.
- Lead special projects, such as Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, Complexity reduction, Margin Enrichment, Product Line Optimization, Working Capital, and Cash Conversion Cycle optimization.
- Benchmark performance vs. peer companies and competitors, providing insightful analysis.
- Ensure internal controls are in place and maintained in alignment with US GAAP standards.
- Lead preparation of profit and loss forecasts, including gathering and consolidating pricing, costing, and foreign exchange inputs, working closely with commercial finance, corporate planning, and aligning demand volumes with demand planning, supply chain, and operations.
- Collaborate with corporate finance function and internal stakeholders to optimize financial processes and systems, maintaining consistency and accuracy in reporting and forecasting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a similar business-related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, accounting, and modelling skills.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and decision-making abilities
- Strong knowledge of financial management principles, practices, and regulations
- Advanced proficiency in financial software and systems like Business Intelligence tools (for example BOBJ, Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query) and knowledge of Excel
- Motivated team player with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Well-organized and flexible to handle conflicting requirements and tight deadlines in a rapidly changing environment.
- Experience in preparing executive-level communications and presentations.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present complex financial information in a clear and concise manner.
- Strong leadership plus effective cross-functional team management experience
- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
- 401k Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
- Competitive medical, dental and vision offerings
- Health Savings Account
- Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
#LBZUS
