Your Job
Koch Capabilities is hiring a Finance Data Product Owner to safeguard and maximize the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets. We are looking for someone with a strong technical acumen and experience working in finance systems to help deliver valuable finance data products, partner with finance leaders to understand data needs and support the businesses data initiatives.
Our Team
The DMET (Data Management, Enablement and Transformation) team is focused on developing a long-term sustainable capability utilizing data and technology to transform finance. This includes a diverse group with multiple teams focused on data platform technologies, specific data products and transformation with an emphasis on data security. Our strategy will empower the finance and tax organizations to create superior value while consuming few resources, unlocking analytical capabilities, mitigating risk, and meeting ever-changing regulatory requirements.
What You Will Do
- Enterprise level role with the accountability of safeguarding and maximizing the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets. This role will be leading and promoting data asset management initiatives.
- Own the Finance Data Products that align with the broader Koch Industries data vision and strategies.
- Accountable for ensuring quality Finance data products including easily reusable, readily available, easy to replicate or combine, highly transferable and high quality.
- This role will be accountable for a sound security model and ensure access controls are in place and actively managed.
- Accountable for a data governance model that protects the data assets, but also allows for growth and transformation.
- Partners with the Data Delivery and Data Program teams to deliver valuable Finance Data Products to the Koch Leveraged Capabilities and Koch businesses.
- Partner with the Finance Capability leaders and stakeholders to understand their data needs, adapt to changing requirements, and support the Business and Leveraged Capability’s processes through our Data initiatives.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or Science discipline OR 4 + years of relevant data and analytics or accounting, tax, or finance experience can be substituted in lieu of a degree.
- Experience in the AP/AR process domain with a strong understanding of how these processes support various accounting, finance, and tax reporting processes.
- Experience in data delivery and analytics.
- Experience in understanding and correcting data discrepancies, identifying data anomalies, and root cause analysis.
- Experience in project leadership and/or ownership of the end-to-end product lifecycle.
- Experience building business knowledge through meaningful partnerships at the individual contributor and leadership levels.
- Experience communicating and presenting to all levels within an organization.
- Experience working in finance systems.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Strong technical acumen.
- Experience with AP transactions, reporting and billing.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to create synergies/draw connections across multiple platforms/disparate systems to drive consistency and reuse in data.
- Demonstrate deep curiosity and willingness to trace gaps in metadata (and ultimately quality) back to the originator to address and resolve issues proactively at the source.
- Experience in leadership or participating on Agile teams.
- Intermediate understanding of the data development life cycle and data management principles (ETL/ELT process, SDLC, metadata management, data quality, etc.)
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.
Who We Are
Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 122,000+ employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
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