The Cooper Companies

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 by improving our accounting operations through risk management, controls, and governance activities. 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 internal control protocols are being appropriately applied on a consistent basis. This is a highly visible role requiring excellent communication skills, business sense, and a sharp operational, finance and accounting focus. The role reports into the Manager, CVI Internal Controls.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

• 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 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.
• Assist in reviewing Management Review Control (MRC) procedures and flowchart documentation and provide feedback. 
• 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.
• Liaise with Corporate finance teams and Regional Internal Controls Managers to periodically review and improve global policies and processes, setting controls around risk to help enable growth underpinned with excellence in compliance.
• Ad hoc reporting and project management, as required. 
• Assist in preparation of quarterly 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 system implementations (e.g. Workiva, FloQast, Oracle), 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.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience and understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, including experience in defining and designing 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
• Flexibility in handling conflicting priorities working under strict deadlines
• Sound independent judgment
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Visio)
• Knowledge of Oracle, COGNOS, ServiceNow, WDesk, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Blackline, Agile, BAAN or other major ERP systems, a plus

Work Environment:

• Typical office work environment
• Approximately 10% travel where needed within our key regions - APAC, EMEA/ACE, North America and Latin America.

Experience:

• 2-5 years of experience within an external audit, internal controls / audit or public accounting environment
• 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 (e.g. Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor or Certified Information System Analyst), a plus

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

For U.S. locations that require disclosure of compensation, the starting base pay for this role is between $75,628 and $100,837 per year and may include cost of living adjustments. The actual base pay includes many factors and is subject to change and modification in the future. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation and benefits.

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