Senior Finance Business Partner – Koch-Glitsch

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner for Koch-Glitsch, based in Wichita, Kansas. This role leads the business finance team and partners across sales, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, planning, strategy, and market analysis to advance the business vision and maximize value creation for customers, suppliers, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

About the Role

As a core member of the global leadership team, you will work directly with the business leader as a thought partner and strategic advisor, applying Principle Based Management (PBM) to improve decision making. This role prepares you for broader finance leadership or advancing to lead a business or capability. You will also help advance Finance & Accounting’s partnership with the business by applying Comparative Advantage and AI-enabled ways of working.

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 Koch-Glitsch’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, economic tools (marginal analysis, DMF, opportunity cost, risk optimization), and key financial metrics (EVA, NPV, ROCC, NIAT) 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 Koch-Glitsch partners.
• Model and accelerate AI adoption on the leadership team by using AI visibly, sharing wins, protecting experimentation time, surfacing friction points, and partnering with Finance & Accounting, IT, and business leaders to strengthen data foundations and governance.

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 and partnering with senior leaders to communicate business strategy, articulate economic value of alternative options, and/or seek investment authority.
• Experience, passion, and capability in analyzing and communicating periodic financial performance (monthly, quarterly, annual results), near-term financial forecasts, long-range strategic plans (3–5-year outlooks), and key financial improvement bets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tell a clear story with effective charts and graphs for audiences at all levels.
• 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.

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

Compensation is determined by available market data, considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. The range provided is an estimate and may be higher or lower.

Benefits

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

Benefits may vary by geographic region. Specific eligibility criteria are outlined in the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline.