CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NYSE: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 by improving our accounting operations through risk management, controls, and policy setting. The successful candidate will have a strong accounting and internal control 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 and a sharp finance and accounting focus and business sense.
The role reports into the Senior Manager, Financial Risk & Controls, and may include managing direct reports.
Essential Functions & Accountabilities:
Extensive liaison with Corporate and Regional finance teams on periodic review and improvements to global policies and processes, setting controls around risk to help enable growth underpinned with excellence in compliance.
Liaison with control owners to maintain and update the CVI Risk and Controls Matrix (RCM) through periodic assessment of key risk areas. Facilitate required updates to control documentation resulting from changes in the RCM, including Management Review Control Memos, Flowcharts, and IPE Reports Listing.
Manage centralized repository of key control documentation, including Management Review Control Memos, Flowcharts, and IPE Reports Listing.
Review Management Review Control and Flowchart documentation prepared by sites and provide feedback.
Collaborate with the Technical Accounting Team at Corporate HQ to provide technical guidance, policy interpretation and advice.
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.
Collaborate with the Corporate and Regional finance teams to identify, address and remediate high risk, material accounting and finance control deficiencies.
Assist in maintenance of the Global Balance Sheet review process.
Assist in preparation of quarterly compliance and reporting tasks.
Manage annual statutory audit reporting process.
Provide support to local sites and Oracle ERP team to ensure smooth transition of controls compliance as sites move to the new environment.
Ad hoc reporting and project management, as required.
Directly manage staff and provide on-going training and development; set goals and objectives and evaluate performance and achievements.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Appropriate certificate in accounting and/or auditing, including Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor or Certified Information System Analyst
Experience and understanding of SOX requirements, including experience in defining and designing controls
Extensive U.S. GAAP policy experience
Excellent interpersonal 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
Flexibility in handling conflicting priorities working under strict deadlines
Sound independent judgment
Work Environment:
Typical office work environment
Approximately 10% travel where needed within our key regions - APAC, EMEA/ACE, North America and Latin America.
Experience:
5-8 years of experience within an external audit, internal controls / audit or public accounting environment
Management experience preferred but not required
Understanding of internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance
Experience in global operations, manufacturing and compliance, a plus
Knowledge of Oracle, COGNOS, ServiceNow, WDesk, Blackline, Agile, BAAN or other major ERP systems, a plus
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business is required; Master’s degree a plus
Appropriate certificate in accounting and/or auditing, (eg Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor or Certified Information System Analyst) required
