Controller

**Description**
**Koch Separation Solutions (KSS) **is currently looking for a Controller** **to lead the KSS RELCO Group’s business finance capability. The business finance capability is a vital component within the KES leadership team driving business strategy, initiatives, and transformational change.
RELCO, now a Koch Separation Solutions Company, is based in Willmar, Minnesota. RELCO provides dairy and food industries with safe, innovative process technologies suited to their specific needs. Our commitment is to deliver on-schedule, in-budget projects to create long-term customer relationships. Continual improvement and processing innovations have made RELCO customers the most economically efficient processors in the industry. With offices in the USA, Brazil, The Netherlands and New Zealand, RELCO serves customers globally.
Koch Engineered Solutions “KES” is a global company with unique business platforms that each deliver advantaged engineered solutions across targeted industries. Current KES core technologies include mass transfer, combustion engineering & pollution control, heat transfer, membranes and filtration, actuation systems for robotics and automation, intelligent electric grid and next generation asset integrity.
**What You Will Do In Your Role**
- Create financial analyses that are valued by the business, provide new insights and drive profitable growth.
- Develop deep and lasting relationships with key business leaders and decision makers.
- Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines
- Optimize forecasting tools to provide insight and analysis into anticipated future performance. Identify potential issues/risks and advise management on action plans and remedial action as is necessary
- Help develop and support short and long-term operational strategies
**Daily and Monthly Responsibilities**
- Manage and monitor all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements
- Maintain internal control safeguards for the receipt of revenue, costs and both team and organizational budgets and actual expenditures
- Implement consistent accounting policies, practices, and procedures across all programs, upholding federal, state, and local legal standards by remaining knowledgeable about existing, new, and future legislation
- Develop and enforce internal controls to maximize protection of company assets, policies, procedures, and workflow
- Oversee and support accounting team with dynamic leadership that creates an environment of trust and productivity
**The Experience You Will Bring**
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
- Finance and Accounting experience which includes experience with P&L and high level analysis for business leaders
- Ability to interpret and analyze and influence business decisions
- Experience managing high level executive relationships and experience influencing decisions based on financial results
- Strong analytical skills for interpretation of financial statements
**What Will Put You Ahead**
- Manufacturing industry experience; and/or global company experience
- Performing financial analysis for a global company
- Experience providing economic analysis for decision making processes
- SAP, Infor, or other large ERP, integrated system experience
- Experience with business analysis and data visualization tools (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, VBA, Hyperion, etc.)
- Experience with one of more of the following (benchmarking, KPI tracking, variance analysis, capital projects, forecasting, planning, NPV, IRR, ROI, marginal analysis, and other valuation metrics)
- Process Improvement / Process Transformation / Process Implementation experience

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