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 Lubrizol. 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 recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life. Lubrizol is currently looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Finance team. In this role, you will provide financial insights to support operations objectives in the areas of product costs, OPEX and CAPEX. Additionally, you will provide accurate and compliant financial reports and ensure a strong internal control environment. This position will be based out of our Global Competency Center (GCC ) in Pune (India), following a hybrid working model. Duties / Responsibilities: : Provide anchor support for the operations leadership team with timely, accurate and actionable analytics. : Become gate keepers of restructuring initiatives ensuring functional compliance with accounting principles tracking applicable expenditures : Own and drive clarity in Lubrizol corporate reporting by observing operations finance calendar and ensure appropriate support of corporate reporting deadlines and submissions. : Drive excellency in CAPEX analytics by promoting accountability for cash flow optimization and benefits. : Financial gatekeeper of long:range strategic initiatives especially operational excellence targeting capacity optimization, demand planning improvements, and material productivity : Collaborate w/relevant functional teams including information systems to revamp operations finance Power BI dashboards in support of periodic reporting routines : Collaborate cross functionally to drive Lubrizol's productivity initiative and actively participate in the productivity council. Responsibilities include data collection, validation and maintenance of primary productivity project tracking tools. Additionally, the team will be heavily involved in ledger cleanup of cost centers to create line of sight to what's true variable expenses per operating entity : Instrumental in managing, defining, consolidating, and driving clarity of operating mechanisms, governing metrics, and underlying IT updates critical to productivity initiative success : Participate in closing processes as necessary, performing journal entries, review of plant spending, communication of results, and driving operational excellence to streamline closing processes : Play critical role between operations metrics and free cash flow tracking. : Consolidate and track productivity improvements across manufacturing facilities and prioritize key projects offering the highest payback for Lubrizol; support the Operations teams in prioritizing projects and offer insights into key projects and their ability to achieve results. : Act as site controller for our Brecksville and Wickliffe facilities by supporting site leadership with reporting and analysis on monthly, quarterly and year spending; provide support as needed for site related capital investments. : Critically assess project submissions for savings relevance and correct placement into expected benefit buckets ... growth, capacity, process efficiency etc : Ability to participate in ad hoc growth analytics driving efficient make vs. buy decisions Skills, Qualifications: : Bachelors/Master's degree in accounting or finance from top tier universities in India : Minimu