Global Process Owner - Costing

Flint Hills Resources; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA / FSA

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Molex, a Koch company, seeks a Global Process Owner – Costing to lead vision, governance, and transformation of global costing processes. You will standardize inventory valuation, asset safeguarding, and COGS accounting while driving enhancements across Molex and Koch with training and knowledge sharing.

The role partners with IT, Finance, and regional teams, implementing end-to-end costing controls, data requirements, and enabling technologies to achieve improved process efficiency and

Qualifications

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

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, 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.

Skills

Product costing

Integrated financial systems

Innovative thinking

Job description

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.

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.

What You Will Do

• 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 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.

What Will Put You Ahead

• 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.

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.

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.

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