Your Job INVISTA is seeking an experienced
Senior Cost Accounting Analyst to join the CFO organization. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, and passionate about continuous improvement and transformation. This role combines strong accounting fundamentals, cost accounting knowledge, analytical storytelling, and cross-functional partnership to drive value and support profitable decision making.
Our Team In this role, you will support an organization focused on integrity, long-term stability, and innovation, working alongside finance, IT, business units, and external auditors. The successful candidate combines strong accounting fundamentals, cost-accounting experience, analytical rigor, and a collaborative mindset. Someone who seeks to improve processes, able to present data-driven insights, and partners effectively across functions to drive measurable business value.
What You Will Do - Own and transform accounting and cost-related activities to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial data in accordance with US GAAP
- Ensure excellent stewardship of the balance sheet through analytics, reconciliations, and a disciplined close process (month-end close)
- Perform and support cost accounting activities and analysis to accurately reflect product and unit costs
- Develop, document, and sustain efficient accounting and cost processes that provide strong, risk-based internal controls and scale with business growth
- Analyze financial and cost data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities; use tools like Excel and Power BI to provide insights and tell the data story tailored to the audience
- Identify, recommend, and lead waste elimination and transformation initiatives to improve process efficiency and provide value
- Partner with external auditors to support US GAAP and statutory audits
- Build relationships across global finance, IT, business units, and leveraged capabilities to support decision-making and continuous learning
- Proactively seeking opportunities to share insights, best practices, lessons learned, and helping others grow and succeed
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) - Experience in an Accounting or Finance focused role that requires working knowledge of financial accounting principles, general ledger, month end close account reconciliation and analysis, and the purpose/application of internal financial controls
- Advanced Excel skills (spreadsheets, pivot tables, formulas, data manipulation, charts)
- Experience presenting to diverse audiences, including at various levels of the organization internally & externally
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
What Will Put You Ahead - Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field
- Cost accounting experience (manufacturing or similar environments)
- Public audit experience or experience supporting external audits
- Experience with ERP/financial systems such as SAP or OneStream
- Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI or Tableau)
- Industry experience in auto, electronics, chemicals, energy, or related sectors
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 As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6, 6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.
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, aquĆ, or tu ).
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