Senior Accountant, Specialized Accounting

Flint Hills Resources; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Koch Capabilities is seeking a Senior Accountant to own complex intercompany debt and specialized accounting activities in Lisle, IL. The role drives accurate reporting, strong controls, and scalable processes across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include month-end close, forecasting, and coordinating with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and business stakeholders to finalize accounting conclusions and implementation plans.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of the general ledger, balance sheet, and income statement.
• Experience managing multiple accounting priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Experience working in a team to identify issues and implement solutions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and formatting.

Responsibilities

• Own accounting responsibilities for intercompany debt structures and ensure accurate reporting.
• Execute month-end close, US GAAP reporting, and forecasts on time.
• Identify and implement process improvements using Copilot, AI, automation and analytics.
• Provide accounting support for complex transactions including restructurings, mergers and acquisitions.
• Strengthen controls and reconciliations and document procedures.

Skills

General ledger

Excel

Intercompany debt

ERP systems

Copilot/AI

Intercompany accounting

Communication of accounting concepts

Tools

SAP

S4 HANA

OneStream

Blackline

Kyriba

Job description

Senior Accountant, Specialized Accounting

Koch Capabilities is seeking a motivated, self-driven Senior Accountant to own complex accounting activities and help transform how the Specialized Accounting team delivers intercompany debt, legal transaction, and restructuring support. This role will drive accurate reporting, scalable processes, strong controls, and cross-functional execution across complex accounting matters and will be based in Lisle, IL.

This role is not eligible for Visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future.

Our Team

The Koch accounting leveraged capability group works across Koch businesses to develop standard processes and leverage technology to solve complex problems for our Finance Organization.

What You Will Do

Own and Transform:

• Own accounting responsibilities for dynamic intercompany debt structures, ensuring debt facts, calculations, and compliance requirements are properly reported and maintained. Provide accurate actual and forecasted US GAAP and management reporting values.
• Execute timely and accurate month-end close, US GAAP and management reporting, and forecast activities while meeting regulatory, Koch policy, and stakeholder requirements.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement process improvements across intercompany debt and specialized accounting workflows using Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, automation, and analytics to increase efficiency and reduce risks.
• Provide accounting support for complex business transactions, including legal entity restructurings, mergers, liquidations, contributions, distributions, debt activities, and acquisition-related transactions. Partner with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and business stakeholders to develop accounting conclusions and implementation plans.
• Strengthen the control environment by identifying risks, designing and documenting effective controls and reconciliations, and maintaining accounting procedures through business change.

Business Team Partnership:

• Build effective partnerships across Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, and IT to align priorities, resolve complex issues, and enable sound decisions and long-term value creation.

Lifelong Learner:

• Act as a trusted thought partner, creating a network through seeking and sharing knowledge cross functionally across the organization.
• Learn and quickly adapt to changes including new systems and processes.
• Be an example of and proponent for Principle Based Management within the leveraged capability accounting team.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

A solid understanding of the general ledger, balance sheet, and income statement through education or professional experience.

Experience managing multiple accounting priorities and meeting established deadlines.

Experience working within a team environment to identify issues, implement solutions, and meet established deadlines.

Experience with Microsoft Excel, including logical and lookup formulas, pivot tables, and formatting.

Professional experience in an accounting related role, increasing in responsibilities and knowledge.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Demonstrated application of Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, automation, or advanced analytics to improve accounting research, transaction analysis, reconciliations, documentation, controls, or reporting workflows.
• Experience with ERPs and other accounting and consolidation tools (i.e., SAP, S4 HANA, and OneStream), Blackline, or Kyriba.
• Corporate Accounting or Financial Reporting experience, especially as it relates to managing intercompany loan portfolios, consolidations, intercompany accounting, and other complex accounting topics.
• Understanding of Koch Capabilities and the Businesses they serve or experience supporting a large company.
• Experience communicating accounting information and concepts, while tailoring the message to the audience.

For this role, we anticipate paying $85,000- $105,000 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.

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

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.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

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

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.