Assistant Controller

Flint Hills Resources; Chicago, Lisle (IL, IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Parental leave and adoption assistance

Job summary

Molex, a Koch company, seeks a Senior Controllership Leader to oversee a multi-regional accounting organization. You will drive the monthly close, financial reporting, and strong internal controls, while guiding acquisitions, purchase accounting, and complex transactions.

Leverage SAP, CFIN, OneStream, and Snowflake to transform processes. Join a team focused on balance-sheet integrity and strategic partnering with regional controllers and finance leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• Significant progressive experience in controllership, accounting, or financial reporting within a complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ability to apply accounting judgment to complex transactions.
• Experience leading large, complex accounting or finance organizations across geographies.
• Experience overseeing core controllership activities including close, consolidation, internal controls, audit, and balance-sheet governance.
• Experience influencing senior finance and business leaders across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multi-regional organization of more than 250 employees with 6–8 direct reports, establishing clear decision rights.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and consolidation processes with clear timing and accountability.
• Oversee financial reporting including general ledger, intercompany, cash, payroll, fixed assets, and reconciliations.
• Drive transformation through technology, process improvement, and automation to standardize work.
• Maintain balance-sheet integrity through governance, variance analysis, and timely issue resolution.
• Provide leadership on complex accounting matters including acquisitions, purchase accounting, impairments, and restructurings.
• Ensure consistent application of U.S. GAAP and internal control requirements.

Skills

Leadership

U.S. GAAP knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business

Tools

SAP

CFIN

OneStream

BlackLine

Snowflake

Job description

Our Team

You will lead a multi-regional record-to-report organization of more than 250 individuals supporting Molex’s global financial operations. The team is responsible for accurate books, a controlled and timely close, reliable financial reporting, strong internal controls, and balance-sheet integrity, while also supporting technical accounting and acquisition integration. We value leaders who exercise sound judgment, challenge constructively, build and motivate strong teams, and use standardization, technology, data, and automation to improve how work is delivered.

What You Will Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a multi-regional organization of more than 250 employees, including 6–8 direct reports. Establish clear decision rights, strengthen succession planning, and build capability across accounting, controls, systems, reporting, and business partnership.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and consolidation processes, establishing clear expectations for timing, accuracy, communication, issue escalation, and accountability across regions.
• Oversee financial reporting and significant record-to-report activities, including general ledger, intercompany, cash and banking, payroll accounting, fixed assets, and account reconciliations.
• Drive transformation through the adoption of cutting-edge technology, process improvement, and creative destruction.
• Maintain balance-sheet integrity through strong account reconciliation governance, variance analysis, timely resolution of aged or unusual balances, and clear accounting ownership.
• Provide leadership on significant, judgmental, and technically complex accounting matters, including acquisitions, purchase accounting, impairments, restructuring, functional currency, foreign exchange, hedge accounting, leases, pensions, reserves, and other complex transactions.
• Ensure consistent application of U.S. GAAP, Molex and Koch accounting policies, and internal control requirements.
• Lead controllership workstreams for acquisitions and major organizational changes, including opening balances, reporting structures, system requirements, controls, and integration into the finance operating model.
• Provide senior-level controllership support for internal and external audits, statutory reporting, and subconsolidation requirements.
• Lead controllership participation in finance systems transformations, driving standardization, automation, and simplification across CFIN, OneStream, BlackLine, Snowflake, and related tools.
• Partner with regional controllers, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, Finance Solutions, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Business Finance, Global Process Owners, and external advisors to resolve issues, strengthen controls, and improve reporting quality.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• Significant progressive experience in controllership, accounting, or financial reporting within a complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and demonstrated ability to apply accounting judgment to complex and non-routine transactions.
• Experience leading large, complex accounting or finance organizations across multiple geographies, business units, and/or capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing core controllership activities, including financial close, consolidation, internal controls, audit, and balance-sheet governance.
• Experience influencing senior finance and business leaders across organizational boundaries.
• Strong communication, analytical problem-solving, prioritization, and change-leadership skills.

What Will Put You Ahead

• CPA or equivalent professional accounting designation.
• Experience in global manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex multinational operations.
• Experience leading acquisition integration, purchase accounting, restructuring, or major operating-model transformation.
• Experience with enterprise financial systems and transformation initiatives, including SAP, CFIN, OneStream, BlackLine, Snowflake, or comparable platforms.
• Proven success developing leaders, building succession plans, and scaling shared-services or regional controllership capabilities.
• Experience applying automation, analytics, and AI to improve accounting processes, controls, and decision support.

For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $250,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

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 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.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

• Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).