Trade Settlement Analyst

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Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is seeking a Trade Settlement Analyst to join our Trade Settlements team in Wichita, Kansas. This role is fast-paced, dynamic, and offers the opportunity to contribute across commercial, operational, and financial processes that support global commodity trading activities.

The Trade Settlement Analyst serves as a key partner to commercial, operations, and finance teams by ensuring accurate and timely settlement of physical and financial transactions while continuously seeking opportunities to improve processes, leverage technology, and create value for the business.

To be successful in this role, you must be adaptable and capable of managing multiple priorities in an environment where business needs can change quickly. You should possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, demonstrate sound judgment, communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, and be comfortable challenging existing processes to drive continuous improvement. Your demonstrated attention to detail and strong communication and organization skills will be keys to your success as you work to meet deadlines and partner with multiple stakeholders.

This role supports global operations and may require working rotating U.S. bank holidays to support businesses operating across multiple time zones.

What You Will Do

• Execute end-to-end trade settlement activities, including invoice generation, validation, payment processing, journal entries, and exception resolution in accordance with company policies and controls.
• Monitor settlement workflows to identify, investigate, and resolve reconciliation breaks, process exceptions, and system-related issues.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations and month-end and year-end close activities, including accruals, account analysis, close controls, and audit support.
• Analyze large and complex data sets to identify trends, quantify risks, and support value creation opportunities.
• Partner with commercial, operational, technology, and finance teams to resolve settlement issues, improve processes, and reduce risk.
• Leverage digital tools, analytics, and automation to streamline the settlement function and improve its effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement by challenging the status quo, developing recommendations, and implementing sustainable solutions.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field OR 2 years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, settlements, operations, or analytics
• Proficiency across the Microsoft 365 suite (for example, lookup and reference formulas and multi-step formula construction in Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, or Teams)
• Experience reconciling, validating, or investigating discrepancies in financial or transactional data (in a professional or academic setting)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in trade settlements, commodities trading, risk management, or energy/agriculture markets, including understanding of trade lifecycles, settlement controls, and reconciliation processes.
• Experience writing SQL to query and aggregate large data sets (joins, aggregation, filtering logic).
• Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Fabric, Alteryx, Snowflake, or comparable data analytics and visualization platforms, including building dashboards, reports, or data models that support business decisions.
• Experience using Microsoft Copilot, Python, Power Automate, or other AI and automation tools to generate insights, automate manual workflows, or reduce cycle time on recurring processes.
• Experience supporting month-end or year-end close processes in a complex business environment.
• Experience with ERP, trading, or settlement systems.
• Track record of process improvement - identifying a manual or error-prone process, influencing change, and implementing a sustainable solution.

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.

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

As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.

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, aqui, or tu).