Cabot Corporation

Your Role at Cabot

The Finance Manager for the Battery Materials business unit engages in all financial activities across the global business. This role is responsible for global consolidation of financial statements, global coordination of profit and loss (P&L), working capital, and capital forecasts. The Finance Manager will drive financial reporting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring accuracy and actionable insights. The role will be deeply embedded in the organization to drive understanding of financial inputs and outputs, supporting improved transparency and decisions.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Coordinate global profit and loss (P&L), working capital, and capital forecasts.
• Manage the budget and forecast process for selling, technological, and administrative expenses (STA).
• Own commercial forecast processes for EU, NA, and SA regions.
• Drive accuracy and completeness of financial statement preparation and presentation; collaborate with accounting and other Cabot stakeholders to improve reporting quality.
• Oversee reporting of financials within the business, including technology, commercial, and finance functions.
• Communicate financial results, forecasts, and analyses to senior management and cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate the budget and long-range planning (LRP) process for the business unit.
• Develop an understanding of product and supply chain cost structures to inform strategic decisions.
• Ensure compliance with global accounting standards and local statutory requirements.
• Identify and lead opportunities for process improvement by partnering closely with accounting and business stakeholders to enhance core financial processes and reporting.
• Support decision-making regarding capital appropriations, expansion, pricing, and product line changes.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

• Advanced knowledge of accounting principles and financial concepts, with the ability to apply them in a global business environment.
• Strong understanding of financial consolidation, forecasting, and cost management.
• Advanced proficiency with financial systems, including JDE (JD Edwards), OBI (Oracle Business Intelligence), and Power BI.
• Strong Excel skills including ability to manipulate, synthesize, and analyze large and complex data sets and present actionable insights and recommendations.
• Demonstrated interest in exploring data and structuring it appropriately for analysis; curiosity and willingness to learn about advanced data concepts.
• Demonstrated initiative and decision-making skills in dynamic environments.
• Ability to build trust and collaborate across functions and geographies.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience working within cross-functional, global teams.

Education/Experience

• University degree in Accounting/Finance. MBA preferred.
• Minimum eight years of experience in accounting/financial management, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with global financial consolidation, commercial forecasting, and cost analysis.
• Prior experience working with JDE, OBI, and Power BI is highly desirable.

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.

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