Sr Digital Business Relationship Manager, Record-to-Report; R2R – Hybrid

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.

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Cabot Corporation is seeking a Sr Digital Business Relationship Manager (BRM) Record to Report (R2R) to join the Global Digital organization at either the Billerica, MA or Alpharetta, GA locations.

The Sr BRM will drive Digital strategy across R2R, covering finance and accounting management activities such as general accounting, costing, consolidation and financial reporting. This role combines R2R and Finance processes knowledge with digital solutions expertise to drive innovation and enhance business value.

This person understands both business and digital to drive innovation and shape demand for technology that increases business value. The BRM represents Digital and works closely with specific business units, regions, and business functions. Their objective is to converge business and Digital as true strategic partners and ensure business value results.

The Sr BRM partners with the R2R Global Process Owner, regional accounting and Delivery Center Operations teams, integrating R2R and Digital as strategic partners. The Sr BRM is responsible for capturing the business needs, assisting in the prioritization of projects, ensuring that projects align with the technology that provides maximum return on investment, and assisting with the development of Digital strategy.

They collaborate with regional digital partners, enterprise architects, project managers, business analysts, and data teams to align projects with business needs and technology. This role focuses on evolving culture, building strategic partnerships, with the GBS community and driving business value through information and technology.

• Serve as the point of escalation for digital day-to-day operations and are also accountable to drive our vision of exceptional experiences by partnering with the different digital groups and managed service providers in a culture of shared ownership.
• Accountable for the delivery of enhancements and proactive understanding and tracking activity (e.g., tickets, requests, customer feedback metrics) related to their functional area(s) understanding trends to shape future demand
• Collaborate with the R2R Global Process Owner, delivery center leaders, and Digital Finance team on project awareness, pre-project ideation, evaluation of proposals, build business cases, and plan new initiatives.
• Consult with solutions and enterprise architects to develop capability roadmaps and determine how they fit into enterprise-wide capability roadmaps and priorities.
• Ensure business case value realization and optimization, from business plans through consultancy, business case development, financial awareness, managing expectations, and identifying opportunities to add value.
• Operationalize the IT strategy, deliver on-time and in-budget, enable/advocate for the necessary process transformations, and finally ensure adoption and value realization.
• Ensure project and initiative progress, including consistent and effective communication. This includes managing escalation and avoiding risk.
• Monitor Performance and KPI’s to ensure services are aligned with customer needs, are delivered and value is delivered by technology to the business.
• Develop deep…