Koch Industries

Controller

Koch Industries$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in a Controller or similar leadership role
  • Experience in managing and developing talent
  • Proven cross-functional initiative leadership
  • Thorough knowledge of US GAAP
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead a high-performing accounting team
  • Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting activities
  • Ensure accurate accounting for complex EPC construction contracts
  • Oversee project accounting and evaluate key project risks
  • Partner with leadership on forecasting and strategic planning
  • Drive continuous improvement across systems and business processes
  • Champion AI-enabled solutions to improve accounting processes

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Potential infertility assistance and paid parental leave
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Controller located in Scottsdale, AZ. This role will lead the accounting team supporting our DEPCOM Power business. If you are an intentional leader with strong capability in accounting, and a desire to influence business strategy and performance, this could be an excellent role for you.

As a key DEPCOM Power leader, this role partners with senior leaders to advance the business vision, improve decision-making, and create long-term value. The successful candidate will provide leadership and vision to the accounting organization while applying and championing Principle Based Management™ (PBM). This role also serves on the KES Accounting leadership team, helping strengthen organizational capability and advance strategic priorities across the broader accounting function. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

What You Will Do

  • Develop and lead a high-performing accounting team and partner with finance, invoice-to-pay, treasury, and risk functions
  • Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting activities
  • Ensure accurate accounting for complex EPC construction contracts, percentage-of-completion revenue recognition, contingencies, change orders, claims, and project estimates
  • Oversee project accounting, including cost and profitability measurements that help drive action. Evaluate key project risks, reserve positions, and financial exposures
  • Partner with leadership on forecasting and strategic planning
  • Work across capability groups to drive continuous improvement across systems, reporting, and business processes, while strengthening internal controls
  • Support audits, financial reviews, and external reporting requirements
  • Champion the responsible adoption of AI-enabled solutions to improve accounting processes, strengthen decision support, and increase organizational capability across the finance function.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience in a Controller, Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager or comparable accounting leadership role, including demonstrated leadership managing and developing talent
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives as well as partnering with senior leaders in a business team environment
  • Experience and knowledge of US GAAP
  • Strong written and verbal communication experience and skills (storytelling) including the ability to connect leadership to key accounting concepts


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience supporting large-scale construction, infrastructure, renewable energy, or industrial projects. Strong understanding of project accounting and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition
  • Experience implementing or improving ERP systems, reporting solutions, or business processes
  • Strong understanding of project controls, estimating, procurement, and construction operations
  • Proven track record improving profitability through operational and financial process improvements
  • CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional certification
  • Experience leveraging AI or automation solutions to streamline financial processes, improve reporting, or accelerate business analysis .


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 .

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.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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