Accounting Manager

Your Job

Koch Inc., is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to join our CFO organization in Wichita, KS or Plano, TX. 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.

Our Team

At Koch, our mission is to help people improve their lives by making and innovating valuable products and services. We have a variety of companies that work in many industries and create thousands of essential products that you use every day. This opportunity will support one of our companies that is finding new ways to move the world forward.

What You Will Do

* Own, Transform and Lead:
Own accounting activities by ensuring your team's excellent stewardship of the trial balance through analytics and quality close. Identify opportunities, bring your point of view, and implement waste elimination and transformation initiatives across processes to provide value for the organization.

* Business Team Partnership:
Act as a trusted thought partner by proactively seeking and sharing knowledge, building relationships, working cross-functionally and communicating results at a leadership level across the global finance organization, IT, and other capabilities. Develop and foster partnerships with other finance functions, leveraged capabilities, business units, and external auditors to prioritize and support profitable decision making and value creation, with a focus on integrity and long-term stability.

* Financial Analysis:
Understand the data and use tools such as Excel and Power BI to identify trends and provide insights to support decision-making. Tell the data story by adapting the presentation based on the audience, including executive leadership.

* Lead financial reviews and continuous improvement efforts to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency. Participate in stand-alone and consolidated audits.

* Lifelong Learner:
Create a knowledge network for yourself and your team by seeking and sharing knowledge, building partnerships across the organization. Learn and quickly adapt to change, including new systems and processes.

* Support team members through coaching and training to build financial acumen and economic thinking across your team and the organization.

* Advance Principle-Based Management (PBM) culture by embedding company guiding principles in financial processes and decision-making.

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 One Stream experience

* Experience with data visualization tools (Power

BI or Tableau)

* Relevant accounting certification (e.g., CPA).

* Experience supporting strategic planning and decision-making.

* 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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