Job Description

Location(s)

Wichita, Kansas

Company

Koch

Career Field

Accounting & Finance

Job Number

196031

Your Job

Koch Inc., is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to join our CFO organization in Wichita, KS. A successful candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, and has a passion for driving continuous improvement and transformation. They should have a strong understanding of accounting concepts, good critical and economic thinking, strong communication skills, and solid leadership skills. This role will partner with cross-functional teams to support and enable sound decision-making by executive leadership.

This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing accounting and cash team, building capability, accountability, financial acumen, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Drive finance transformation and modernization by leveraging analytics, automation, AI, and Copilot to improve processes, eliminate waste, strengthen controls, and create value.
• Serve as a trusted business partner to senior leaders, providing insights, challenging thinking, and influencing decisions that support long-term business success.
• Leverage data and technology to identify trends, uncover opportunities, and deliver financial insights that improve decision-making across the organization.
• Gain broad exposure across Koch by partnering with finance, IT, business units, and leadership teams on strategic initiatives, transformation efforts, and value-creation opportunities.
• Ensure strong financial stewardship through ownership of the trial balance, close process, balance sheet reviews, reconciliations, audit support, and accurate financial reporting.
• Advance Koch's Principle-Based Management® Culture, apply and promote PBM by integrating Koch's guiding principles into decision-making, team development, business partnerships, and financial processes.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in an Accounting or Finance focused leadership role(s) that requires a working knowledge of financial accounting principles, the general ledger, month end close, account reconciliation and analysis, and the purpose/application of internal financial controls
• Leadership experience developing the capabilities of others, leading transformation, being a driver of company initiatives, project leadership, or similar
• Process and Transformation focus that embraces and leads change. Experience standardizing and optimizing processes and work products
• Experience in Excel (spreadsheet creation/editing, pivot tables, graphs, data manipulation/analysis and formula creation)
• Strong communication skills with experience presenting and tailoring messages to a variety of audiences

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field
• Public audit experience, FSM, SAP or OneStream experience
• Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI or Tableau)
• Relevant accounting certification (e.g., CPA).
• Experience supporting strategic planning and decision-making.
• Experience in international accounting including FX
• Strong analytical, economic thinking, and critical reasoning skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Ability to work effectively managing multiple priorities.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).