Business Systems Analyst

Your Job

The Enterprise Finance Applications Team at Koch Technology is seeking a Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to join our team to support our leveraged, enterprise account reconciliations processes, applications, and projects across the global Koch companies. As a BSA, your role will encompass a blend of Business Systems Analyst duties and functional support responsibilities, specifically focused on the Blackline application and its associated technologies. You will be responsible for supporting IT processes, the overall Blackline platform, proactively monitor the system and metadata, and support our global reconciliations users. Additionally, you will provide execution support for new application implementations/projects, identify consumer experience process enhancements, and identify ways to improve and automate processes.

Our Team

The Enterprise Finance Applications team is a product centric organization that is aligned to Koch's key business areas. The Finance Technology team provides value-added strategic partnerships with other Koch companies in ownership and support of several key processes and platforms, including Source to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Treasury. As a preferred partner, we focus on people, processes, technology, and data to drive transformation. Our team members are key contributors through the application of frameworks and principles with an emphasis on leveraging critical and economic thinking to drive value.

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA and requires an in office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Develop detailed knowledge and understanding of account reconciliation, journal entry, and matching processes across Koch; translating that knowledge into the optimization of Blackline and other record-to-report applications.
• Critically think through Blackline and customer processes and dependencies
• Support, maintain, and monitor Blackline and supporting systems for a global user base.
• Responsible for understanding impacts of releases, patches, integrations, and system updates; Test and validate new system releases and functionality, communicating effectively with customers on changes, and creating documentation when applicable.
• Responsible for administrative needs for the overall system including security, users, configuration, integrations, and master reference data.
• Connect with the global account reconciliations team and stakeholders to develop and maintain strong working relationships, optimize value, and internalize business strategies that support Koch Capabilities vision. Actively listen and anticipate customers' future needs and incorporate into team strategies and priorities.
• Partner with product team, global customers, vendors, third party consultants, and IT teams to transform, implement technology solutions and lead projects that drive enhancements, efficiencies, and automation.
• Have courage to challenge, escalate, embrace teamwork, work independently, be inclusive with differing cultures/opinions, be reliable and trustworthy.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience engaging with customers through soliciting, capturing, and critically thinking through requirements
• Experience with account reconciliations and financial close processes and software as an end user or administrator
• Experience using data to understand business needs, efficiently convert requests into actionable assignments, and solve business needs while using good economic thinking.
• Analytical experience, specifically around having a curiosity mindset and asking good questions to dig deep into business processes to define solutions.
• Experience managing, prioritizing, and working simultaneously across multiple issues and concurrent projects.
• Experience providing reasonable customer communications about delivery dates, updates and managing expectations.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Participating in financial close and account reconciliations processes. If you are an accountant wanting to move beyond month-end close processes, this is a great opportunity.
• Experience implementing and/or supporting Blackline or other large-scale ERPs, specifically in the accounting and finance area.
• Experience influencing and challenging peers and stakeholders to drive to common goals and solutions.
• Experience partnering with global end users
• Experience working in Agile based methodology (Kanban, SCRUM).
• Experience with ITBM ServiceNow, Snowflake, PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, data lakes

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 ).

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