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Finance Manager / Business Partner, CST Americas – Billerica, MA Hybrid

Locations US-MA-Billerica
Requisition ID
2025-13153
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

Cabot Corporation is seeking a Finance Manager / Business Partner to join the CST Americas segment at the Billerica, MA, Business and Technology Center.

 

The Finance Manager / Business Partner 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. Possesses well developed knowledge and skills to interpret financial information in all areas to assist and advise management. 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. The role will also serve to augment individual business specific finance resources on ad hoc projects as needed.

 

It 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.

 

The role is based in Billerica, MA, but is eligible to follow the current Flexible Working Arrangement / Hybrid model.

How You Will Make an Impact

  • 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. Comfortable presenting financial data to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
  • 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.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • 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

 

How We’ll Support Your Success:

  • 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. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

 

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About Cabot


Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

Innovation that drives sustainability

Many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges are fundamentally chemistry problems. We can convert the mobility sector from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, but this requires batteries with greater range and lower cost. This is fundamentally a chemistry challenge. We can have a zero-energy building, but this requires high performance insulation, efficient solar panels, and energy storage solutions. Each of these are fundamentally chemistry challenges.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.


EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001


Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees’ and applicants’ disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay


This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background Checks


Cabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.

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