Finance Business Partner (Senior Level)

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Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Finance Business Partner (Senior Level) located in Scottsdale, AZ.

This role will lead the business finance team in our DEPCOM business.

If you are an intentional supervisor and an ambitious business leader with interest and capability in business finance, along with a passion to engage with all areas of the business, including sales, engineering, execution, project controls, supply chain, planning, strategy, point of view, market analysis, etc., this could be an excellent role for you.

This role can further prepare you for additional responsibility within finance or advance your journey to lead a business or capability.

This role is a valued member of the DEPCOM leadership team and will work directly with the President and leadership team of DEPCOM in a thought-partner / CFO-type capacity to advance the business vision.

You will be expected to bring the necessary economic and financial knowledge to the leadership team to improve decision making and maximize value creation for our customers, suppliers, shareholders and all other constituents.

The successful candidate will be a Principled Entrepreneur™ who creatively contributes to the vision development and long-range planning processes for the business and assists in the development of clear strategies and priorities to capture opportunities that increase profitability.

This will be accomplished by the personal application of our management framework, Principle Based Management (PBM) and by influencing its application throughout the business.

This role is also a member of the KES Finance and Accounting leadership team responsible for advancing the capability's talent position and strategic priorities.

What You Will Do



* Build strategic partnerships with business leaders and throughout the organization to align priorities, improve decision making, act, and hold others accountable to outcomes


* Drive business profitability through de-averaging to identify and close gaps throughout the organization


* Build a high-performing business finance team that supports DEPCOM's organization and that partners with the broader finance and accounting organization to provide financial domain expertise


* Apply your knowledge from other industries and business models to analyze current business performance, to develop vision and strategies and to originate 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 the decision making and results throughout the business.

Examples include pricing, project acceptance, capital investments, manufacturing, supply chain, SG&A and operating cost benchmarking and management, etc.

Develop usable economic models that improve the d...