Internal Controls Senior Analyst - Global Systems & Reports

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com.

Job Summary: 

This role will help manage the global control environment through risk management, controls, and governance activities across The Cooper Companies business. The successful candidate will have a strong accounting and internal controls background and will work with multiple teams across the Company to ensure that standard internal control protocols are being appropriately applied on a consistent basis. This is a highly visible role requiring excellent communication skills, business acumen, a collaborative mentality, and a sharp operational, finance and accounting focus. The role reports into the Internal Controls Manager, Global Systems & Reports.

• Develop strong business partnerships with key stakeholders including IT compliance, control owners and auditors, to drive effective and timely communication.

• Assist in centrally maintaining collaborative control documentation to promote a standardized, global framework. Update control documentation resulting from changes in design, including Management Review Control (MRC) procedures, flowcharts, and IPE Reports listing.
• Support coordination and communication of formal trainings to ensure systems and reports compliance requirements are known and understood across the business.
• Support completeness and accuracy testing of key reports used for control activities (i.e. IPE Reports), keep IPE Report listing updated with current data and documentation, and communicate non-compliant reports to report users.

• Review requests for changes to key reports, evaluating impact on IPE requirements and working with IT stakeholders to ensure compliance through the change process.

• Review code and configurations changes to key ERP systems, evaluating impact on the control environment and escalating any risks to Internal Controls management.

• Assist where internal control issues arise, including fact gathering & documentation.

• Support issue remediation monitoring activities, such as escalating any challenges that may result in exceeded due dates, providing periodic status updates to internal controls management and internal audit, and sending final confirmation of remediation to internal audit.

• Coordinate with Internal Controls management to identify and track the systems and reports supporting the execution of key financial controls.
• Evaluate SOC 1 reports for key vendors in coordination with IT stakeholders and the vendor’s primary point of contact.
• Assist in preparation of routine compliance and reporting tasks.
• Perform control management software (Workiva) user administration tasks and periodic user access reviews.
• Support ongoing efforts to optimize the company’s IT controls and supporting documentation.
• Support the evaluation and implementation of IT General Controls (ITGC) for business managed systems.
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to identify, document, and verify the effectiveness of IT Application Controls (ITAC).
• Support ongoing initiatives, including but not limited to system implementations, data cleansing, standardization, linking and mapping of control fields, access reviews, etc.

• Ad hoc reporting and project management, as required. 

• Complete any required trainings to ensure robust understanding of compliance requirements.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience and understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements

• Audit experience, including IT General Controls (ITGC),IT Application Controls (ITAC), and financial controls

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, including written and verbal communication, especially in developing positions and presenting to management, auditors, and non-accounting stakeholders

• Ability to independently research, analyze and interpret data

• Ability to organize workload and self-manage completion of responsibilities on time and in line with the team priorities

• Flexibility in handling confl