Senior Finance & Controls Leader, Manufacturing & Projects

Flint Hills Resources; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions in Tulsa, OK seeks a Senior Accounting Manager to serve as a trusted financial leader for the John Zink business. The role blends deep technical accounting with strong business partnership to drive financial integrity, operational performance, and continuous improvement.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with accounting, operations, engineering, project management, and commercial teams to strengthen controls, improve project and manufacturing analysis, and

Qualifications

• Experience in controllership, accounting, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, project accounting, or finance leadership.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including financial reporting, internal controls, and compliance.
• Experience building relationships and influencing outcomes across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Experience partnering with business leaders to improve financial and operational performance.
• Experience presenting financial analyses, forecasts, or business recommendations to leadership teams.
• Experience leading teams, developing talent, and driving organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Financial stewardship and controllership: Ensure the integrity of financial reporting, month-end close, account reconciliations, and accounting governance across supported businesses.
• Maintain compliance with US and local GAAP, company policies, and internal control requirements.
• Lead accounting reviews for complex transactions, project accounting, inventory valuation, reserves, cost accounting, and revenue recognition matters.
• Partner with auditors, accounting subject matter experts, and business leaders to support compliance and risk management, applying sound judgment and a risk-based approach.
• Business partnership and operational finance: Partner with operations, engineering, project, and commercial teams to improve business performance and profitability.
• Provide financial insight on manufacturing performance, project execution, cost drivers, working capital, operational productivity, inventory management, standard costing, and variances.
• Influence business decisions through economic thinking, financial analysis, cost transparency, and strategic decision support.
• Process improvement and transformation: Lead initiatives that simplify, standardize, automate, and scale finance and accounting processes.
• Leverage technology, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions to improve reporting, controls, forecasting, and decision-making while promoting innovative ways of working.
• Leadership and capability development: Build high-performing teams through coaching, mentoring, and capability development.
• Foster accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and Principle Based Management®, while leading cross-functional initiatives and adoption of best practices.

Skills

Controllership

Financial accounting

Internal controls

Cross-functional collaboration

People leadership

Technical accounting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics

Tools

LN

OneStream

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Koch Engineered Solutions in Tulsa, OK seeks a Senior Accounting Manager to serve as a trusted financial leader for the John Zink business. The role blends deep technical accounting with strong business partnership to drive financial integrity, operational performance, and continuous improvement.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with accounting, operations, engineering, project management, and commercial teams to strengthen controls, improve project and manufacturing analysis, and