Summer 2025 Accounting and Finance Analyst Internship

Your Job

Koch Industries is seeking a Summer 2025 Accounting and Finance Analyst Intern who is excited about discovering their passions and potential while gaining real experience within our companies that creates value for our customers.

Our Team

At Koch Industries, our mission is to help people improve their lives by making and innovating valuableproductsand services. We have a variety of companies that work in many industries and create thousands ofessentialproducts that you use every day.

This posting is specifically for our Koch Resource Companies with the opportunity located in Wichita, Kansas. Depending on performance and business needs, our entry-level position will also be based in Wichita, Kansas.

What You Will Do

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As a global company spanning multiple industries, Koch Industries continues to transform the way we do business. In one of our many business roles, you will be right in the middle of finding new ways to move the world forward.Choosing the right place to start a successful accounting, analyst, or tax career is challenging. Koch Industries stands apart, providing a combination of diverse roles, abundant resources, personalized development, and a work/life balance that encourages less burnout and greater satisfaction.

Our interns work alongside experienced accountants and analysts to solve real problems and offer insights that benefit society through improving our products and services. In addition to being a contributor on their team, interns at Koch Companies explore our unique Principle-Based Management culture, partner with interns from other disciplines on case studies, learn key business concepts and Koch mental models, and engage with leaders to learn more about business transformation, our work in society, and more. These are just a few key aspects of our internship program.

Selected candidates may be placed in one of the following (but not limited to) areas of concentration:

Transactional & Financial Accounting/Analysis

• Own accounting processes and analyze data to provide insights to support business decisions
• Derive completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial data while facilitating a strong, risk-based, internal controls environment that supports business growth

Credit & Contracts

• Manage counter party relationships with regards to credit analysis, credit reviews, and credit terms using the risk and reward framework or confirm contractual details and negotiate contractual terms

Tax Accounting

• Build relationships and understand the business of assigned entities to assess tax opportunities
• Prepare corporate income tax returns to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with domestic and foreign tax law

Market Analysis

• Develop points of view for product including supply & demand, global trade flow, and margin forecasting and communicate trends that are fundamental drivers of the market conditions
• Track potential impacts based on future scenarios for the company's relevant markets

Treasury

• Assist in managing Koch's daily cash activity and short-term investments, as well as support the management of trading & investment portfolios
• Own bank reconciliations and calculating interest rates to aid in forecasting of the utilization of cash

Trade Operations

• Support the day-to-day trading operations including positions, profit/loss reporting, cost management, daily exposures, and exchange tie-outs

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analytical activities that support our company's major business decisions and overall financial health
• Analyze operating costs of manufacturing sites or capabilities. Build trend analysis to depict planned spend versus actual spend. Recommend optimization points of view.

Commercial Analyst

• Actively participate in business planning meetings, working team interactions, and profitability review sessions
• Collaborate with mentors to define and manage tasks to complete multiple analytic, data-driven projects
• Use the decision-making framework to identify optimal alternatives to address emerging opportunities for the business you support

Risk Analyst

• Utilize data, business relationships, and analytical thinking to identify, quantify, and communicate market risk, counterparty risk, and hazard risks to improve commercial activities, trading & investments, and corporate decision making.
• Improve and develop capabilities that ensure risk and reward are optimized together and risk taken is aligned with the granted authorities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Eligible for full-time employment no later than summer 2026
• Enrolled in a degree program related to Accounting, Finance, Tax, Economics, or Data Analytics
• Able to work in the US without sponsorship

What will Put You Ahead

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong critical and entrepreneurial thinking skills
• Initiative, natural curiosity, strong communication skills, and an aptitude for fast-paced learning
• Experience with data analytics platforms, business process technology, and basic coding skills such as PowerBI, Alteryx, or Tableau

Who We Are

Koch Industries 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 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.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf