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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Assistant Controller

Financial AccountingUpdated on Nov 10
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
  • Significant progressive experience in controllership, accounting, or financial reporting within a complex organization.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and demonstrated ability to apply accounting judgment to complex and non-routine transactions.
  • Experience leading large, complex accounting or finance organizations across multiple geographies, business units, and/or capabilities.
  • Demonstrated experience overseeing core controllership activities, including financial close, consolidation, internal controls, audit, and balance-sheet governance.
  • Experience influencing senior finance and business leaders across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong communication, analytical problem-solving, prioritization, and change-leadership skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a large, multi-regional organization, including 6–8 direct reports. Establish clear decision rights, strengthen succession planning, and build capability across accounting, controls, systems, reporting, and business partnership.
  • Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and consolidation processes, establishing clear expectations for timing, accuracy, communication, issue escalation, and accountability across regions.
  • Oversee financial reporting and significant record-to-report activities, including general ledger, intercompany, cash and banking, payroll accounting, fixed assets, and account reconciliations.
  • Drive transformation through the adoption of cutting-edge technology, process improvement, and creative destruction.
  • Maintain balance-sheet integrity through strong account reconciliation governance, variance analysis, timely resolution of aged or unusual balances, and clear accounting ownership.
  • Provide leadership on significant, judgmental, and technically complex accounting matters, including acquisitions, purchase accounting, impairments, restructuring, functional currency, foreign exchange, hedge accounting, leases, pensions, reserves, and other complex transactions.
  • Ensure consistent application of U.S. GAAP, Molex and Koch accounting policies, and internal control requirements.
  • Lead controllership workstreams for acquisitions and major organizational changes, including opening balances, reporting structures, system requirements, controls, and integration into the finance operating model.
  • Provide senior-level controllership support for internal and external audits, statutory reporting, and subconsolidation requirements.
  • Lead controllership participation in finance systems transformations, driving standardization, automation, and simplification across CFIN, OneStream, BlackLine, Snowflake, and related tools.
  • Partner with regional controllers, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Finance Solutions, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Business Finance, Global Process Owners, and external advisors to resolve issues, strengthen controls, and improve reporting quality.

Desired Qualifications

  • CPA or equivalent professional accounting designation.
  • Experience in global manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex multinational operations.
  • Experience leading acquisition integration, purchase accounting, restructuring, or major operating-model transformation.
  • Experience with enterprise financial systems and transformation initiatives, including SAP, CFIN, OneStream, BlackLine, Snowflake, or comparable platforms.
  • Big Four public accounting or significant external-audit engagement experience.
  • Proven success developing leaders, building succession plans, and scaling shared-services or regional controllership capabilities.
  • Experience applying automation, analytics, and AI to improve accounting processes, controls, and decision support.

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, KS
Founded
1940

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