Senior Finance Business Partner – John Zink

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner for the John Zink business, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This role is ideal for an intentional supervisor and ambitious business leader who can partner across functions—including sales, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, planning, strategy, and market analysis. As a core member of the global leadership team, you will work directly with the business leader as a thought partner and strategic advisor to advance the business vision, bringing economic and financial perspectives to improve decision-making and maximize value creation for customers, suppliers, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

A successful candidate will be a Principled Entrepreneur™ who applies creativity and a contribution mindset to vision development, long-range planning, and strategy. You will personally apply and influence the use of our management framework, Principle Based Management (PBM), while advancing how Finance & Accounting partners with the business through Comparative Advantage and AI-enabled ways of working. This role is also part of the KES Finance and Accounting leadership team, responsible for advancing talent and strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build strategic partnerships across the organization to align priorities, improve decision-making, drive action, and hold others accountable for outcomes.
• Build a high-performing business finance team that supports John Zink’s organization and partners with the broader finance and accounting organization to provide financial domain expertise.
• Apply insights from other industries and business models to assess current performance, shape vision and strategy, and originate new ideas.
• Understand and 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 decision-making and results.
• Develop practical economic models and redesign decision-support processes from the outcome backward, with AI in the loop, to improve day-to-day decision-making and compress cycle time.
• Promote an integrated business team approach by connecting leaders to the key drivers of current performance and the levers that improve future outcomes.
• Provide economic and financial leadership that increases the speed and quality of decisions, informs strategy, and drives prioritization and execution.
• Apply AI fluently in daily work—drafting, synthesis, modeling, variance analysis, and executive communication—while using deep business knowledge to create new ways of working with John Zink sales, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain partners.
• Model and accelerate AI adoption on the leadership team by using AI visibly, sharing wins across the business, protecting experimentation time, surfacing friction points (policy, access, data, process), and partnering with Finance & Accounting, IT, and business leaders to strengthen data foundations, governance, and MDM readiness for priority use cases.

Requirements

• Experience in business analysis, finance, accounting, commercial development, business strategy, sales, procurement, planning, engineering, manufacturing, or other business capability roles that included responsibility for improving business financial performance.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives as well as partnering with senior leaders in a business team environment to communicate business strategy, articulate economic value of alternative options, and/or seek investment authority from senior leadership.
• Experience, passion, and capability in analyzing and communicating periodic financial performance (monthly, quarterly, and annual results), near-term financial forecasts (next year), long-range strategic plans (3–5-year outlooks), and key financial improvement bets across these timeframes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tell a clear story with effective charts and graphs for audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to simplify complex, ambiguous analysis and improve decision-making.
• Proven ability to apply AI in high-impact ways, turning use cases into business value and using enterprise AI tools effectively and responsibly in finance, including prompt structuring, output verification, and hallucination detection.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applicable experience in business capabilities outside of Finance & Accounting.
• Three-statement financial modeling experience.
• Industry experience in discrete manufacturing, custom engineering, and/or long-lead-time engineered-to-order industrial equipment.
• Experience leading AI-enabled process redesign or building AI-assisted decision tools for forecasting, variance analysis, quoting, or reporting in a business-partnering context.
• Experience driving change management and data governance readiness to scale AI adoption across a finance organization.

Pay

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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Paid vacation and time off.
• Educational assistance.
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance (where eligible).

Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region.