What are the responsibilities and job description for the Value Chain Analyst position at Koch?
Your Job
Koch Minerals & Trading (KM&T) is seeking a Value Chain Analyst to join the commercial finance team. In this role, you will support Koch Carbon’s petcoke, sulfur and metallics trading businesses providing financial support, analysis and cross capability partnership needed to maximize results and drive outcomes. This position is based in Wichita, KS and is a great opportunity to take your career to the next step in a commodity trading business.
The ideal candidate will collaborate effectively across the organization and communicate clearly with a diverse range of stakeholders and capabilities. They will demonstrate a strong capacity to learn quickly and rapidly adapt to evolving business needs. Additionally, the candidate should exhibit a strong sense of ownership while embracing a team-first and mindset.
What You Will Do
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 Minerals & Trading (KM&T) specializes in the innovative procurement, exchange, and delivery of essential commodity products and services that empower our daily way of life. We pursue the development of investments into successful ventures and new, transformative platforms.
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 Minerals & Trading (KM&T) is seeking a Value Chain Analyst to join the commercial finance team. In this role, you will support Koch Carbon’s petcoke, sulfur and metallics trading businesses providing financial support, analysis and cross capability partnership needed to maximize results and drive outcomes. This position is based in Wichita, KS and is a great opportunity to take your career to the next step in a commodity trading business.
The ideal candidate will collaborate effectively across the organization and communicate clearly with a diverse range of stakeholders and capabilities. They will demonstrate a strong capacity to learn quickly and rapidly adapt to evolving business needs. Additionally, the candidate should exhibit a strong sense of ownership while embracing a team-first and mindset.
What You Will Do
- Serve as a strategic business partner across commercial, logistics, operations, and accounting teams by delivering insights that improve decision-making, strengthen value chain performance, and support business outcomes.
- Support commercial execution and financial accuracy by ensuring transaction integrity, effective system stewardship, timely analysis, and reliable financial reporting.
- Evaluate value chain economics, cost drivers, risk exposures, and commercial opportunities to improve profitability and inform strategic business decisions.
- Advance business transformation through technology, automation, AI, and data-driven solutions that improve reporting, streamline processes, and increase organizational efficiency.
- Drive continuous improvement by simplifying workflows, improving data quality, strengthening controls, and building scalable solutions that support business growth.
- Professional experience in Finance, Accounting, Market Analysis, Supply Chain or Trade Support roles
- Experience with Microsoft Office products, including Excel (for example: spreadsheet creation/editing, pivot tables, data manipulation/analysis and formula creation)
- Experience working with ETRM and ERP systems
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
- Experience in process improvement, transformation, or implementing automation/AI solutions, including Copilot
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 Minerals & Trading (KM&T) specializes in the innovative procurement, exchange, and delivery of essential commodity products and services that empower our daily way of life. We pursue the development of investments into successful ventures and new, transformative platforms.
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).