Internal Controls Senior Analyst - Global Operations

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 operations 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, updated internal controls, finance policies, and technical accounting guidance 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 Operations.

• Develop strong business partnerships with key stakeholders including controllers, control owners and auditors, to drive effective and timely communication including changes in policy or control requirements, remediation of any control issues or accounting errors, or business concerns requiring additional support, etc.

• Assist in centrally maintaining collaborative control documentation to promote a standardized, global framework resulting from changes in design, including Management Review Control (MRC) procedures, flowcharts, and IPE Reports listing.

• Follow up on annual control certification / self-assessment exception responses, working with control owners to ensure control records and documentation in the Control Management System are kept up to date and accurate prior to audits (includes IC Memos, Related IPE Documents, Systems used, Control Thresholds, Process Flowcharts, etc).

• Coordinate completeness and accuracy testing of key reports used for control activities (i.e. IPE Reports), training local personnel on what acceptable protocols and forms are, and where required, support testing activities.

• Provide guidance and training to new control owners and ensure control ownership is fully transitioned timely & effectively.

• Assist where internal control issues arise, including fact gathering & documentation, providing root cause analysis (including deficiency exposures) and recommendations for improvements to the design of existing financial processes and procedures.

• 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.

• Work with local personnel to understand and document accounting issues, analyze issue exposure, and escalate to global internal controls management.

• Assist in preparation of routine compliance and reporting tasks.
• Coordinate periodic reviews of balance sheet accounts and consolidate global status of reviews.
• Assist with control management software (Workiva) administrative tasks.
• Support ongoing initiatives, including but not limited to new / modified control roll-outs, system implementations, data cleansing, standardization, linking and mapping of control fields, etc.
• Assist with streamlining of processes, gathering data from various Finance professionals and providing guidance to promote audit readiness.

• Ad hoc reporting and project management, as required. 

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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

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

• Experience and understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, including experience in defining and designing controls

• Ability to independently research, analyze and interpret data

• Flexibility in handling conflicting priorities working under strict deadlines

• Sound independent judgment

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft