Finance Manager

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Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Finance Manager, reporting to the Director of Finance.

This role creates value by improving business outcomes as part of DEPCOM's project business leadership team and by building close relationships with business leaders that allow for healthy challenge processes and economic thinking.

The successful candidate will be a change agent, championing transformation by defining what good looks like, creating clear strategies and prioritized roadmaps to close gaps, and creatively upgrade the vision setting process for the business.

The successful candidate will further motivate stakeholders to constantly improve results by more fully applying Principle Based Management (PBM).

The role will be based in Scottsdale, AZ and is eligible for relocation assistance.

What You Will Do



* Be the finance leader for DEPCOM's Projects Business and providing a competitive advantage by holding stakeholders accountable and partnering with multiple teams and leaders to improve business outcomes


* Work with the team to advance a shared vision that creates superior value for DEPCOM


* Drive clear understanding of marginal bets and range of outcomes to drive profitable decision making through effective storytelling and intentional risk management.


* Frame up investment opportunities and develop Knowledge Processes that drive business strategy, enable better and faster decisions, lead to profitable action, and promote accountability.


* Actively engage and develop strong relationships with the business leadership team, the controller organization, and other Koch wide stakeholders to better understand, anticipate, and meet business needs.


* Develop strategies to optimize Capital Consumed across all levels of the business.


* Develop processes, systems, and tools that: Deliver a step-change improvement in transparency, availability, and communication of financial results.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Experience building strong partnerships across multiple facets of an organization such as Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain and Commercial to better identify gaps and frame up/drive priorities to close those gaps effectively.


* Progressive growth in financial leadership, analysis, strategic planning, business development, business decision making, thought leadership, or related roles with increasing scope and scale


* Economic thinking skills.

Ability to drive application of economic tools/mental models (marginal analysis, DMF/business cases, opportunity cost, risk optimization, capital consumed framework etc.)


* Financial modeling experience which includes key driver analysis, economic framing, Business and/or Operations strategies, and innovative approaches to visualization (e.g., EVA, NPV, ROCC, NIAT)

What Will Put You Ahead



* Demonstrated experience leading business and strategic finance within an organization to drive better performance


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