Global Process Owner - Costing

About the Role

As the Global Process Owner – Costing, you will lead the vision, governance, and transformation roadmap for Molex’s global costing processes, including inventory valuation, asset safeguarding, and operational accounting within Cost of Goods Sold. You will drive standardization, compliance, and continuous improvement while partnering across Molex and Koch to align people, processes, data, controls, and technology. This role serves as a key change leader, supporting acquisitions, system implementations, and process transformation initiatives while building organizational capability through training and knowledge sharing.

About Our Team

Our Corporate Finance team plays a critical role in enabling business performance through strong financial processes, governance, and operational excellence across our global organization. Based at our Corporate Headquarters in Lisle, IL, we collaborate closely with business, finance, and technology leaders across Molex and Koch to drive transformation, solve complex challenges, and create long-term value. Join a team that is committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and developing scalable solutions that support our growing global business.

Responsibilities

• Function as the end-to-end Process Change Leader to set vision and drive strategic direction.
• Define and maintain the global costing framework, including guidance for inventory and operational accounting within Cost of Goods Sold in compliance with US GAAP, statutory requirements, and internal policies.
• Support Data Management, Enablement & Transformation (DMET) Data products, Pillar 2, and Koch transactions to drive favorable economic outcomes.
• Design, implement, and document effective end-to-end costing processes, including the related controls, roles, data requirements, and enabling technologies.
• Lead process transformation and improvement initiatives by utilizing BPM (Business Process Management), Finance, Supply Chain, IT, Regional Hubs, business finance, and other Koch companies to assess current-state processes and optimize future-state solutions.
• Establish KPIs and governance routines to monitor process effectiveness, compliance, and adoption, and refine processes as business needs evolve.
• Support acquisition integration by identifying costing process gaps, assessing alignment with Molex standards, and developing harmonization plans.
• Act as a trusted costing subject matter expert by advising stakeholders, supporting system implementations or upgrades, and sharing knowledge across Molex and Koch companies.

Requirements

• Experience with product costing processes or closely related areas of manufacturing finance, including inventory valuation, safeguarding assets, or Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) accounting.
• Experience with integrated financial systems, accounting systems, and database structures.
• Innovative thinking, embracing creative destruction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience working on teams consisting of various resource backgrounds (e.g., Sales, Finance, Tax, IT, etc.).
• Experience with the CO, MM, and PP modules within SAP.
• Experience with Central Finance.
• Experience with Snowflake, Cortex Code, and other AI technologies.
• Experience working with a system implementation or process transformation project.

Pay

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 - $120,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.