Cost Accounting Manager, Operations

Job Location : Wickliffe, OH
Job type: Full-time , Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote)

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 .

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 Cost Accounting Manager, Operations

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

As a Cost Accounting Manager, Operations, you will provide leadership and guidance to all global subsidiaries, as well as strategic and tactical support in all areas of cost and property accounting. You will also oversee timely completion of the monthly North America close, provide analysis of material and manufacturing variances to management, and maintain compliance with internal controls. This position also provides leadership and direction to the operations accounting group to broaden and develop their knowledge and skills in the areas of cost accounting, property accounting, and cost analysis. In this role, you will:

• Coach and mentor staff and provide development opportunities for their career advancement.
• Develop and monitor manufacturing costing and property accounting policies, procedures and documentation globally; coordinate with global colleagues to ensure consistent approaches.
• Provide insightful financial analysis related to monthly standard cost changes and monthly variances to the finance management team.
• Coordinate annually with the plant controllers on the development of standard labor and overhead rates and provide analysis to the finance management team.
• Lead the Operations accounting department in SOX 404 compliance and ensure accuracy and adherence to company policy.
• Support and play a key role in acquisition accounting, plant consolidations, and transition support as applicable.
• Collaborate with other finance partners to increase the use of shared services within the accounting Center of Excellence.
• Strategically drive better forecasting, automation and standardization while leveraging global capability centers.
• Perform ad hoc projects and analysis.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university. Accounting or Finance degree preferred.
• Minimum seven (7) years’ accounting experience, including experience with cost accounting and / or plant controllership responsibilities.
• Strong team player with excellent cross functional abilities.
• Self-starter and multi-tasker who takes initiative.
• Ability to successfully navigate in ambiguous and unstructured situations as well as in a matrixed organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Willing to travel up to 15%, including occasional extended trips at plant sites globally.
• SAP and BOBJ experience a plus.
• Experience working with teams globally is preferred.

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
• 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
• Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings
• Heath 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.

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