Finance Manager / Business Partner
Cabot Corporation
ERP
Finance Manager / Business Partner
Cabot Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Billerica • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
Tech Stack
ERP
About the role
- Acts as a strategic financial advisor to the Americas commercial organization.
- Provides specialized analysis and uses advanced techniques in reporting estimated and actual monthly, quarterly and other periodic results.
- Helps shape and formulate the regional “story” that is communicated to the corporation and segment leadership.
- Facilitates and coordinates the annual budget process for the region.
- Uses advanced techniques to leverage informational systems to design reports, evaluate results and develop analytical tools to ensure the timely dissemination of information to improve business decision making and performance.
- Serve to augment individual business specific finance resources on ad hoc projects as needed.
- Reports directly to the Sr. Finance Business Partner – CST Global Commercial with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the VP/Regional Business Director PC Americas.
- Proactively advise on critical financial matters of moderate complexity and partner with the Americas Regional Business Director to provide financial analysis and expertise for decision support
- Analyze management information, review and communicate monthly results with the regional commercial leadership team.
- Prepare and deliver monthly financial performance presentations to senior leadership, effectively communicating key insights, market trends, variances, and actionable recommendations.
- Partner with commercial organization on customer margin: pricing recommendations, trend/comparative analysis, thought partnership; provides perspective on full financial portfolio.
- Partner with Marketing, Operations, and Global Business Services teams to streamline processes, and support key initiatives across departments.
- Coordinate, prepare and facilitate timely completion of monthly forecasting and annual budget processes and support management in the 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.
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial analysisbudgetingforecastingdata modelingreportingtrend analysiscost-benefit analysisdiscounted cash flowExceldata manipulation
Soft skills
strategic advisingcommunicationdecision makinginitiativetrust buildingbusiness acumenadaptabilitycollaborationpresentation skillsproblem solving
Certifications
University degree in FinanceUniversity degree in AccountingMBA
