Plant Finance Manager

Job Title: Plant Finance Manager

Job Location: Franklin, WI

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 Plant Finance Manager

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the medical device 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 Plant Finance Manager, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation. You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Lubrizol's Operations Finance team has an immediate need for a Plant Finance Manager, based in Franklin, WI.

What We're Looking For:

• Participate/Support in closing processes, performing journal entries, review of plant spending, communication of results, and driving operational excellence to streamline closing processes
• Compare actual financial performance to the forecast, budget, and last year. Analyze the differences to provide insights and drive improvements.
• Support and drive the annual planning process as a member of plant leadership team and global Operations finance group.
• Monitor and support third-party manufacturing activities and material movements, collaborating with local and global supply chain teams.
• Participate in the reconciliation of plant property taxes in conjunction with corporate tax
• Ensure internal controls and measures on spending, production, working capital, and fixed assets are in place.
• Support inventory tracking routines and controls, especially the annual physical inventory, reporting of non-working slow-moving items, and standard cost updates.
• Function as capital projects administrator, ensuring proper documentation and justification.
• Collaborate with plant controller, plant manager, and plant/project engineers.
• Support sales and marketing with product cost estimates.
• Participate in 3rd party audits as required by the Global Supply Chain team

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance from an accredited university
• Proficiency in QAD a must
• Minimum of 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

Considered a Plus:

• Previous plant, cost accounting, supply chain, procurement, or operations finance experience
• Proficiency in SharePoint, BOBJ, Power BI, Microsoft Products, or advanced Excel functions
• Exposure to AI processing in the financial reporting space a plus
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams
• Experience w/ERP conversions a plus CPA and/or MBA or equivalent.
• Familiarity with absorption accounting
• Exposure to SAP a plus

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• 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

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.

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