# Senior Manager, Finance North America **Company**: Valvoline Global Operations **Location**: Lexington **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Automotive **Apply**: https://jobs.valvolineglobal.com/job/Lexington-Senior-Manager%2C-Finance-North-America-KY-40509/1388112100/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_da9a2482-d0a ## Description At Valvoline Global Operations, we're proud to be The Original Motor Oil, but we've never rested on being first. Founded in 1866, we introduced the world's first branded motor oil, staking our claim as a pioneer in the automotive and industrial solutions industry. Today, as an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we are driven by innovation and committed to creating sustainable solutions for a better future. Our corporate values, Care, Integrity, Passion, Unity, and Excellence,are at the heart of everything we do. These values define how we operate, how we treat one another, and how we engage with our partners, customers, and the communities we serve. At Valvoline Global, we are united in our commitment to: - Treating everyone with care. - Acting with unwavering integrity. - Striving for excellence in all endeavors. - Delivering on our commitments with passion. - Collaborating as one unified team. When you join Valvoline Global, you'll become part of a culture that celebrates creativity, innovation, and excellence. Together, we're shaping the future of automotive and industrial solutions. The Senior Manager, Finance North America serves as a key strategic finance leader supporting Valvoline Global's commercial, operational, and transformational priorities across the region. This role provides advanced financial stewardship, insight, and partnership to Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, and Business Development. The position leads commercial deal modeling, drives disciplined operational forecasting, accelerates transformation outcomes, and ensures strong alignment between strategy, execution, and financial performance. This role is essential to enabling North America's long-term value creation and delivery of 2026–2030 objectives. Key responsibilities include: - Leading North America commercial finance activities in partnership with Sales and Operations, owning the full deal modeling process (including pricing logic, cost assumptions, P&L, cash flow, NPV, IRR, and payback) to ensure alignment with long-term strategy. - Establishing and leading an annual Bid × Did process to evaluate major deals against 12-month actual performance, identifying key insights on volume, sales per gallon, profit per gallon, and variances versus original business cases; driving corrective actions and improving future deal design. - Driving the North Americas Transformation Operating Model by accelerating execution of priority initiatives, ensuring rigor in assumptions, and maintaining transparent benefit tracking. Coordinating closely with Sales, Procurement, and Supply Chain. - Partnering with the VPs of Sales and Supply Chain to deliver North America volume, revenue, and EBIT commitments. Leading the Americas Operating Rhythm to enable early visibility to risks, drive accountability, and guide structured, cross-functional problem solving. - Co-leading the North America forecasting process for volume, sales, and EBIT with Operations and Supply Chain. Deploying automation and AI-enabled tools to improve accuracy and reduce forecasting cycle time. - Owning the Operating Plan and Long-Term Plan for the region, ensuring alignment between strategy, execution, and financial targets. - Building and elevating North America Finance talent by identifying high-potential team members, providing coaching and mentorship, and strengthening analytical, operational, and business partnership capabilities. - Serving as a strategic Finance voice for North America, integrating commercial and operational insights to accelerate decision-making and enhance performance outcomes. - Expanding Finance's influence as a proactive business partner, positioning the function as a driver of growth, operational excellence, and margin improvement across North America. Requirements include: - Demonstrated success in commercial, operational, or strategic finance roles supporting large, complex business functions. - Expertise in financial modeling, valuation (NPV, IRR, payback), pricing structures, and business case development. - Strong understanding of commercial processes, supply chain operations, and manufacturing or distribution economics. - Experience supporting or leading transformation initiatives, including benefit tracking, operational rigor, and cross-functional alignment. - Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, including an ability to turn data into actionable insights. - Strong business partnership capability, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive cross-functional accountability. - Proficiency with forecasting tools, financial systems, automation, and AI-enabled analysis. - Demonstrated leadership capability with experience coaching, developing, and elevating finance talent. - Excellent communication skills, including preparation of executive-ready analyses and presentations. ## Skills ### Required - financial modeling - valuation - pricing structures - business case development - commercial processes - supply chain operations - manufacturing or distribution economics - transformation initiatives - benefit tracking - operational rigor - cross-functional alignment - analytical skills - problem-solving skills - critical-thinking skills - data analysis - forecasting tools - financial systems - automation - AI-enabled analysis - leadership skills - communication skills --- Source: [Apply at jobs.valvolineglobal.com](https://jobs.valvolineglobal.com/job/Lexington-Senior-Manager%2C-Finance-North-America-KY-40509/1388112100/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)