Vice President, Finance

Koch Industries • Wichita, KS

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About The Position

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a VP, Finance located in Wichita, KS. This role will lead the business finance team in our Equipment, Technology, and Services (ET&S) business. If you are an intentional supervisor and an ambitious business leader with interest and capability in business finance, along with a passion to engage with all areas of the business, including sales, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, planning, strategy, point of view, market analysis, etc., this could be an excellent role for you. This role can further prepare you for additional responsibility within finance or advance your journey to lead a business or capability. This role is a valued member of the ET&S leadership team and will work directly with the President of ET&S in a thought-partner / CFO-type capacity to advance the business vision. You will be expected to bring the necessary economic and financial knowledge to the leadership team to improve decision making and maximize value creation for our customers, suppliers, shareholders and all other constituents. The successful candidate will be a Principled Entrepreneur™ who creatively contributes to the vision development and long-range planning processes for the business and assists in the development of clear strategies and priorities to capture opportunities that increase long-term profitability. This will be accomplished by the personal application of our management framework, Principle Based Management (PBM) and by influencing its application throughout the business. This role is also a member of the KES Finance and Accounting leadership team responsible for advancing the capability's talent position and strategic priorities.

Requirements

• Meaningful experience in business analysis, finance, accounting, commercial development, business strategy, sales, procurement, planning, engineering, manufacturing or other business capability roles with responsibilities that included improving the financial performance of the business
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives as well as partnering with senior leaders in a business team environment to communicate business strategy, articulate economic value of alternative options, and/or seek investment authority from senior leadership
• Experience, passion and capability in analyzing and communicating periodic financial performance (monthly, quarterly, annual results), near-term financial forecasts (next year), long-range strategic planning (3-5-year outlooks), and key financial improvement bets throughout these timeframes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (storytelling) including using effective charts and graphs that can connect to all levels of the organization
• Comfort with highly ambiguous business analysis with demonstrated experience simplifying and advancing decision making despite the ambiguity

Nice To Haves

• Applicable experience in business capabilities outside of Finance & Accounting that will help you better partner with and lead cross-functional business teams
• Three statement financial modeling experience
• Experience in discreet manufacturing, custom engineering, and/or long-lead time engineered-to-order industrial equipment

Responsibilities

• Build strategic partnerships throughout the organization to align priorities, improve decision making, act, and hold others accountable to outcomes
• Build a high-performing business finance team that supports ET&S' global organization and that partners with the broader finance and accounting organization to provide financial domain expertise
• Apply your knowledge from other industries and business models to analyze current business performance, to develop vision and strategies and to originate ideas
• Understand and be able to effectively articulate business objectives, insights and market drivers
• Drive application of PBM frameworks, dimensions, principles, economic tools (marginal analysis, DMF, opportunity cost, risk optimization etc.) and key financial metrics (EVA, NPV, ROCC, NIAT etc.) to improve the decision making and results throughout the business
• Develop usable economic models that improve the day-to-day decision making of the team
• Promote the integrated business team concept by connecting business leaders to the key drivers of current performance and the levers to improve future outcomes
• Provide economic and financial leadership and challenge that increases the speed and quality of business decisions, informs strategies, and drives prioritization and execution

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, disability
• Retirement
• Paid vacation/time off
• Educational assistance
• Infertility assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree