Koch Industries

Your Job

Koch is hiring a Data Product Owner to safeguard and maximize the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets. We are looking for a contribution motivated individual with a strong technical acumen, creative problem-solving skills, and experience leading complex initiatives across multiple teams to help deliver valuable data products, partner with leaders to understand data needs and support the businesses data-driven 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 fewer resources, unlocking analytical capabilities, mitigating risk, and meeting ever-changing regulatory requirements.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

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 data vision and strategies
• Accountable for ensuring quality 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 while allowing for growth and transformation. Collaborating with the Data Governance team to drive continuous improvement
• Partners with the Data Delivery and Data Program teams to deliver valuable Finance Data Products to the KII Leveraged Capabilities and Koch businesses
• Partner with the Capability leaders and stakeholders to understand their data needs, adapt to changing requirements, articulate tax data needs to other product and capability teams, drive cross-capability delivery and inform needs for a successful product adoption through appropriate change management channels
• Partner with businesses to acquire data needed to enable transformation, communicating vision and value of data product
• Partner with Tax Transformation groups to understand business needs and enable tax process transformation through the data product
• Develop and manage team agile backlog and roadmap
• Lead and mentor team members to focus on the right priorities that drive the highest value for product
• This specific role is to manage and support the Trial Balance data product

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in an accounting, finance or related role with an understanding of the accounting cycle and financial reporting processes
• Experience building business knowledge through meaningful partnerships at the individual contributor and leadership levels
• Experience in understanding and correcting data and process discrepancies, identifying anomalies, root cause analysis, identifying solution alternatives, and driving resolution
• Experience communicating and presenting to all levels within an organization
• Experience working in complex financial systems
• Experience with prioritizing, managing and influencing multiple teams to align individual delivery components to a single organizational goal

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in data delivery and analytics, technical, or business relevant function
• Experience in product or project leadership
• Experience using Azure Dev Ops for product or project management
• 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 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 about 120,000 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.

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 Opportunities

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).