Operations Accounting Supervisor

The Lubrizol Corporation; Wickliffe (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading specialty chemical company as an Operations Accounting Supervisor in Wickliffe, OH. The role involves leading financial strategies and cost accounting across global subsidiaries, ensuring compliance, and coaching a dedicated team. This full-time hybrid position offers a competitive salary and benefits while providing opportunities for career development.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of accounting experience, including cost accounting and plant controllership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-starter with excellent cross-functional abilities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee timely completion of the monthly North America close.
• Provide insightful financial analysis related to standard cost changes and variances.
• Lead the Operations accounting department in SOX 404 compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Financial analysis

Cost accounting

SAP

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar

Tools

SAP

BOBJ

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

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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.

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 Supervisor, Operations Accounting

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'll Do

The Operations Accounting Supervisor provides leadership and guidance to all global subsidiaries, provides strategic and tactical support in all areas of cost and property accounting, oversees timely completion of the monthly North America close, provides analysis of material and manufacturing variances to management, and maintains compliance with internal controls. This position also provides leadership and direction to the domestic operations accounting group to broaden and develop their knowledge and skills in the areas of cost accounting, property accounting, and cost analysis.

• 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 to cost and property accounting.
• Provide insightful financial analysis related to monthly standard cost changes and monthly variances to the Lubrizol Finance Management team.
• Coordinate annually with the plant controllers on the development of standard labor and overhead rates and provides analysis to the Lubrizol 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 Lubrizol Finance partners to increase the use of shared services within the accounting CoE.
• Perform ad hoc projects and analysis.
  
  

Skills That Make a Difference

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar.
• Minimum seven (7) years accounting experience, including experience with cost accounting and / or plant controllership responsibilities.
• SAP and BOBJ experience are required.
• 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 world-wide.
  
  

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.

#LBZUS

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Chemical Manufacturing and Research Services

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