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Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking an experienced Senior Director, Finance Business Partner – John Zink. This position is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and reports to the ET&S VP of Finance. If you are an ambitious business leader with the interest and capability to partner across the business — including sales, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, planning, strategy, and market analysis — this could be an excellent opportunity for you. This role can prepare you for broader finance leadership responsibility or advance your path to leading a business or capability.
As a core member of the global leadership team, you will work directly with the business leader as a thought partner and strategic advisor to advance the business vision. You will bring the economic and financial perspective needed to improve decision making and maximize value creation for customers, suppliers, shareholders, and other stakeholders. A successful candidate will be a Principled Entrepreneur™ who brings creativity and a contribution mindset to vision development and long-range planning, and who helps establish clear strategies and priorities to capture opportunities that increase long-term profitability. You will do this by personally applying our management framework, Principle Based Management (PBM), and influencing its application throughout the business. You will also help advance how Finance & Accounting partners with the business by applying Comparative Advantage and AI-enabled ways of working to create greater value for Koch.
What You Will Do
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 Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
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, aquí, or tu).
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking an experienced Senior Director, Finance Business Partner – John Zink. This position is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and reports to the ET&S VP of Finance. If you are an ambitious business leader with the interest and capability to partner across the business — including sales, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, planning, strategy, and market analysis — this could be an excellent opportunity for you. This role can prepare you for broader finance leadership responsibility or advance your path to leading a business or capability.
As a core member of the global leadership team, you will work directly with the business leader as a thought partner and strategic advisor to advance the business vision. You will bring the economic and financial perspective needed to improve decision making and maximize value creation for customers, suppliers, shareholders, and other stakeholders. A successful candidate will be a Principled Entrepreneur™ who brings creativity and a contribution mindset to vision development and long-range planning, and who helps establish clear strategies and priorities to capture opportunities that increase long-term profitability. You will do this by personally applying our management framework, Principle Based Management (PBM), and influencing its application throughout the business. You will also help advance how Finance & Accounting partners with the business by applying Comparative Advantage and AI-enabled ways of working to create greater value for Koch.
What You Will Do
- Build strategic partnerships across the organization to align priorities, improve decision making, drive action, and hold others accountable for outcomes
- Partner with the broader finance and accounting organization to provide financial domain expertise
- Apply insights from other industries and business models to assess current performance, shape vision and strategy, and originate new 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 decision making and results throughout the business
- Develop practical economic models and redesign decision-support processes from the outcome backward, with AI in the loop, to improve day-to-day decision making and compress cycle time
- Promote an integrated business team approach by connecting leaders to the key drivers of current performance and the levers that improve future outcomes
- Provide economic and financial leadership that increases the speed and quality of decisions, informs strategy, and drives prioritization and execution
- Apply AI fluently in daily work through drafting, synthesis, modeling, variance analysis, and executive communication all while using deep business knowledge to create new ways of working with sales, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain partners
- Model and accelerate AI adoption on the leadership team by using AI visibly, sharing wins across the business, protecting experimentation time, surfacing friction points (policy, access, data, process), and partnering with Finance & Accounting, IT, and business leaders to strengthen data foundations, governance, and MDM readiness for priority use cases
- Experience in business analysis, finance, accounting, commercial development, business strategy, sales, procurement, planning, engineering, manufacturing, or other business capability roles that include responsibility for improving business financial performance
- 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, and annual results), near-term financial forecasts (next year), long-range strategic plans (3–5-year outlooks), and key financial improvement bets across these timeframes
- Experience, passion, and capability in analyzing and communicating periodic financial performance (monthly, quarterly, and annual results), near-term financial forecasts (next year), long-range strategic plans (3–5-year outlooks), and key financial improvement bets across these timeframes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tell a clear story with effective charts and graphs for audiences at all levels of the organization
- Ability to simplify complex, ambiguous analysis and improve decision making
- Proven ability to apply AI in high-impact ways, turning use cases into business value and using enterprise AI tools effectively and responsibly in finance, including prompt structuring, output verification, and hallucination detection
- Industry experience in discrete manufacturing, custom engineering, and/or long-lead-time engineered-to-order industrial equipment
- Experience leading AI-enabled process redesign or building AI-assisted decision tools for forecasting, variance analysis, quoting, or reporting in a business-partnering context
- Experience building three-statement financial models
- Applicable experience in business capabilities outside of Finance & Accounting
- Experience driving change management and data governance readiness to scale AI adoption across a finance organization
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 Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
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, aquí, or tu).