Senior Manager, Financial Reporting

Job Title: Senior Manager, Finance

Job Location: Wickliffe, OH

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 Manager, Financial Reporting

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical manufacturing 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: 

The Senior Manager of Financial Reporting is responsible for overseeing and managing the financial reporting process within the organization. This role plays a crucial role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, compliance with accounting standards and regulations, and providing financial information to support decision-making. The Senior Manager of Financial Reporting will work closely with the finance team, senior management, and external auditors.

What We're Looking For: 

• Manage the timely preparation of quarterly financial reporting, including financial statements, MD&A and footnotes for parent company; ensure financial reporting is in accordance with US GAAP and SEC requirements
• Assist with monthly internal management reporting and the communication of significant reporting and accounting matters to parent company
• Research and recommend appropriate accounting treatment for complex accounting and reporting issues
• Assess, model, and implement new accounting standards
• Oversee the preparation of the annual goodwill impairment test
• Assist management with acquisitions and divestitures; manage the purchase accounting for new acquisitions
• Assist the Corporate Controller in harmonizing and establishing accounting policies
• Manage the external audit relationship for quarterly parent company requirements and subsidiary level mandated audit procedures
• Manage the finance relationship with pension actuary; coordinate periodic reporting requirements
• Support the compilation of the 11-K filing for the US Profit Sharing and Savings Plan
• Serve as liaison to corporate department heads that require financial assistance and analysis of certain financial matters
• Provide management with reasonable assurance that financial reporting is free from material error or omissions and assets are protected
• Assist in periodic and/or regular re-assessments of the control environment which includes an assessment of control performance, as well as an assessment of changes to risks and/or controls
• Supervise a team of management reporting accountants and a financial analyst, providing guidance, performance feedback and development opportunities
• Ability to travel up to 10% both domestically and international

Skills That Make a Difference: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required. A Master's degree is a plus!
• Minimum 7 years of public accounting and/or accounting and financial reporting in the manufacturing industry.
• CPA required.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP required.
• SAP and BPC experience preferred.
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter and team player willing to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Demonstrates strong ethics and integrity

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
• 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
• Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings
• Health Savings Account
• Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave
• Flexible work environment

Learn more at benefits.lubrizol.com!

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. #LI-HD1