Global Financial Analyst

The Job Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Global Financial Analyst to join our Business Finance team in Wichita, KS or Tulsa, OK. This role focuses on a business unit within our Equipment, Technology, and Services (ET&S) businesses, partnering across Integrated Business Teams (IBTs) and supporting capabilities for performance visibility and improved decision-making.

About the role

This role is ideal for someone who is self-directed, organized, collaborative, and detail-oriented, capable of improving ways of working in a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the monthly FP&A cycle, including coordination of the monthly forecast refresh and reporting key business insights such as resource utilization analysis, SG&A, capital, and working capital metrics.
• Execute and continuously improve key global financial reporting and planning processes used by IBTs, operating across multiple time zones.
• Work with incomplete or inconsistent data, performing hands-on data wrangling, validation, and reconciliation as needed.
• Support ad-hoc, data-driven analysis and materials for both business reviews and management presentations.
• Develop financial analyses, business scenarios, and models to evaluate alternatives and support effective decision-making.
• Provide clear, insightful commentary on financial and operational results, explaining outcomes and highlighting relevant opportunities and risks to management.
• Collaborate with global shared functions (such as Data & Analytics, Engineering, Operations, HR, Accounting) to source information, validate assumptions, and improve the quality and consistency of financial reporting and analysis.
• Apply AI tools in daily work — including drafting, synthesis, modeling, variance analysis, and communication — while using business knowledge to improve ways of working.
• Communicate effectively across cultures and time zones as part of a global business.
• Identify improvement opportunities and propose solutions that increase value.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite or Office 365, including advanced Excel skills and data management.
• Experience challenging the status quo and transforming work processes.
• A self-directed mindset with the motivation to question existing processes and reporting, identify gaps, and propose better ways of working.
• Experience explaining complex results clearly and concisely using strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis, finance, accounting, commercial development, or business strategy.
• Experience working with data management and visualization tools.
• Experience in a mid-to-large manufacturing organization.
• Experience interpreting complex financial data and drawing meaningful conclusions.
• Experience in framing and modeling complex economic problems.
• Ability to manage large volumes of data from multiple systems and use advanced tools and develop a point of view.