Cabot Corporation

Finance Manager / Business Partner

Cabot Corporation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Billerica • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States

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SeniorLead

Tech Stack

ERP

About the role

  • Act as strategic financial advisor to the Americas commercial organization and proactively advise on critical financial matters of moderate complexity.
  • Analyze management information, review and communicate monthly results with the regional commercial leadership team.
  • Prepare and deliver monthly financial performance presentations to senior leadership, communicating key insights, market trends, variances, and actionable recommendations.
  • Partner with commercial organization on customer margin: pricing recommendations, trend/comparative analysis, and provide perspective on full financial portfolio.
  • Partner with Marketing, Operations, and Global Business Services teams to streamline processes and support cross-department initiatives.
  • Coordinate, prepare and facilitate timely completion of monthly forecasting and annual budget processes; support consolidation of annual budgets/long range plans.
  • Build and maintain robust financial and operational data models using Anaplan, Power BI, and Power Query to support forecasting, scenario planning, and strategic decision-making.
  • Monitor and analyze operating expenses to ensure alignment with budget targets.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to optimize net working capital, improve cash flow, and drive cost-efficiency across the organization.
  • Augment individual business-specific finance resources on ad hoc projects as needed.
  • Reports to the Sr. Finance Business Partner – CST Global Commercial with a dotted-line to the VP/Regional Business Director PC Americas. Based in Billerica, MA; eligible for Flexible Working Arrangement / Hybrid model.

Requirements

  • University degree in Finance or Accounting
  • MBA a plus
  • 7+ years FP&A and/or business finance experience (i.e. budgeting, forecasting, developing reports to analyze reports and trends, etc)
  • Experience with management information and ERP systems (i.e. JDE, OBI or SAP, Power BI/Power Query, etc)
  • Understands accounting, ERP and management reporting system interdependencies
  • Strong Excel skills including ability to mine/manipulate data, clean, troubleshoot, and analyze information using database, formulas, power query/pivots, etc
  • Experience reviewing and interpreting large amounts of data and provide insight regarding observable trends
  • Strong knowledge of financial principles and their application in a business setting, including financial discounted cash flow, cost / benefit, payback and other modeling with multiple scenarios
  • Chemical manufacturing or similar industrial organization highly preferred
  • Sound business acumen including the ability to quickly develop a broad understanding of Cabot’s business models, products and markets
  • Ability to make decisions and take initiative in the absence of perfect information and to respond to issues quickly and effectively
  • Ability to build trust and gain support of personnel across the organization
  • Aptitude for learning new reporting, management information systems and other technology quickly
  • High level communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to adapt presentation style to suit audience and ensure effective information delivery to various stakeholder levels
Benefits
  • Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
  • Hybrid Work Environment – The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week.
  • Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer a competitive package of benefits. Benefits begin on first day of employment.
  • Cabot Benefits Feedback – we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
  • Support – you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
financial analysisbudgetingforecastingdata modelingfinancial reportingtrend analysiscost-benefit analysisdiscounted cash flow modelingExceldata manipulation
Soft skills
strategic advisingcommunicationdecision makinginitiativetrust buildingbusiness acumenadaptabilitycollaborationproblem solvingpresentation skills
Certifications
MBAUniversity degree in FinanceUniversity degree in Accounting
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