Senior Analyst Operations Finance

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 recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life. 

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is dedicated to enabling a sustainable future. Our innovative science drives sustainable and measurable results, helping the world Move Cleaner, Create Smarter, and Live Better. Our solutions improve billions of lives daily. We value diversity and strive for a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process to create a positive candidate experience. We offer flexibility to ensure our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life

Lubrizol is currently looking for a Senior Analyst Operations Finance to join our Finance team. In this role, you will provide financial insights to support global operations objectives in the areas of product costs, OPEX analysis, fixed assets, and inventory accounting. This role will interact heavily with teams located in both Europe and North America. Additionally, you will provide accurate and compliant financial reports and ensure a strong internal control environment. This position will be based out of our Global Capabilities Center in India.

What you will do: 

• Interact regularly with direct reports to provide insightful coaching and feedback to assist with the resolution of questions, concerns, and challenges
• Provide regular coaching and feedback to direct reports to resolve questions, concerns, and challenges
• Provide guidance to direct reports on development plans, performance, goal setting, and finance KPI’s
• Implement volume expense transfer functions to enhance business flexibility during dynamic cycles
• Monitor actual financial performance against forecast, budget and prior year and prepare variance analysis to provide insights and drive improvements.
• Drive operational excellence and spending efficiency by identifying productivity improvements and cost reductions within our manufacturing sites
• Get involved with the standardization of CAPEX and inventory routines connected to accounting and finance-related responsibilities globally.
• Perform ad hoc analysis within Operations and with other support functions including Health & Safety, Process Technology and Product Development departments
• Financial gatekeeper of long-range strategic initiatives especially operational excellence targeting capacity optimization, demand planning improvements, and material productivity
• Perform, document, and support cash flow analysis on strategic projects including capital investments to measure the Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value, and payback period
• Participate in closing processes as necessary, performing journal entries, review of plant spending, communication of results, and driving operational excellence to streamline closing processes
• Support the annual planning process as the finance partner for the business units finance teams in Operations by consolidating, reporting budgets, assisting in annual standards process and continuous support of AR routines tied to capital projects
• Ensure that adequate control procedures are in place to ensure a strong finance control environment exists across our plants in alignment with corporate policies
• Partner with the Operations Finance leadership team to provide key insights into the day-to-day operations of the organization, department succession planning, and operational excellence initiatives

What you need: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited university
• At least 5 years of experience in Accounting or Finance
• Technical skills and experience in GAAP accounting, financial modeling and financial analysis concepts
• Ability to concisely contextualize financial information, and provide analysis in a variety of ways (one on one meetings, written reports, formal presentations, etc)
• Motivated team player, with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage time effectively
• Capable of building relationships across variety of departments
• Proficient in SAP and Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel

What will put you ahead:

• CPA and/or MBA preferred
• Previous plant, cost accounting, supply chain, procurement or operations finance experience
• Proficiency in SharePoint, BOBJ, Power BI, or advanced Excel functions
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams 

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 ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.