Senior Manager, Financial Risk and Controls

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Global Risk & Internal Controls plays a critical role in promoting transparency, accountability, and integrity within the organization, and covers internal controls and compliance for the entire CooperSurgical (CSI) division.

This role involves internal interaction and collaboration with all CSI domestic and international locations as well as Corporate Headquarters and the CooperVision (CVI) division.

Additionally, it requires routine cross functional collaboration with both internal and external audit. They provide independent and objective assessments of the organization's operations and help identify areas for improvement to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

The position reports to the CSI Corporate Controller. The ideal candidate will manage the global control environment for CSI helping to improve our accounting operations through risk management, controls, and policy setting.

The successful candidate will have a strong internal control and accounting background. The person will work with multiple teams across the Company to ensure that standards, updated internal controls, finance policies, and technical accounting guidance are being appropriately applied on a consistent basis.

The role will also help identify, engineer, collaborate and execute on training programs that help provide appropriate education and guidance to control owners.

This is a highly visible role requiring excellent communication skills, a sharp finance and accounting focus and business sense with oversight responsibility for a team of direct reports domestically and internationally.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities :

• Establish and monitor key financial risk indicators, as well as implement corrective action plans to mitigate such risks through the oversight of policies and procedures established to address them.
• Work to update and maintain our Risk and Controls Matrix while at the same time help to ensure that current controls are embedded into normal day-to-day processes and procedures.
• Develop the global internal control, policy and process framework for the Company, ensuring greater consistency and harmonization through the disparate ERP systems and team sizes.
• Collaborate with the corporate and regional finance teams to identify, address and remediate high risk, material accounting and finance control deficiencies through a formal communication and reporting process.
• Liaison with CHQ Finance and CVI Risk & Controls, working proactively on improvements to global policies and processes, setting controls around risk to help enable growth underpinned with excellence in compliance and relevant controls.
• Track, monitor and report metrics related to required risk and compliance processes.
• Work with the Technical Accounting Team at Corporate HQ to provide technical guidance; advise and training to our Corporate and Regional Finance teams on any existing or future changes in accounting standards and requirements under US GAAP.
• Assist in internal control issues identified providing root cause analysis (including deficiency exposures) and providing recommendations for improvements to the design of existing financial processes and procedures.
• Perform internal control reviews to assess the compliance of departments as well as individual employees.
• Implement global education and training programs to ensure employees have adequate awareness and understanding of internal control standards and requirements.
• Develop and implement a Global Balance Sheet review process for the regions leveraging Blackline capabilities to provide oversight and set expectations around the accuracy and reliability of financial results.
• Provide as needed support and guidance to the D365 ERP implementation team to ensure that the worldwide deployment of the system is appropriately assessed from a risk compliant standpoint ensuring all key aspects of internal control and global Company policies are being standardized and appropriately adhered to.
• Facilitating annual audit debrief and audit process improvements between business units and the external auditors.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Strong knowledge and understanding of US GAAP and IFRS, internal / external audit, financial regulatory compliance (SOX, COSO)
• Minimum of 10 years leadership experience in internal controls or audit with demonstrated skill in the application of concepts and best practices.
• Excellent analytical, presentation and communication skills
• Strong leadership skills to effectively manage and motivate the internal audit team, prioritize audit projects, and drive continuous improvement within the function.
• Ability to manage multiple projects within a multi-national matrix organization
• Licenses or Certifications : MBA / CPA / CISA .
• Familiarity with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) applications and platforms.

Work Environment :

• Typical office work environment
• No more than 20% travel where needed within our key regions domestically and internationally.

Experience :

• 8-10 years of experience within an internal controls, internal audit or public accounting environment.
• Understanding of internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.
• Experience in global operations, manufacturing and compliance, a plus.

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or equivalent
• Licenses or Certifications a plus : MBA / CPA / CMA / or CISA
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