Specialist - Internal Controls Center of Excellence

POSITION TITLE: SPECIALIST – Internal Controls Center of Excellence (IC COE)
REPORTING TO: Team Lead, IC COE
LOCATION: Cebu, Philippines
Job Summary
The IC COE Specialist reports to the IC COE Team Lead and works closely with the DBS team. The position is responsible for monitoring the design and operating effectiveness of key financial controls and maintaining close working relationships with the DBS team, Corporate Controllership, and audit providers.

Essential Responsibilities

• Perform control testing as part of the Control Monitoring Program to help provide reasonable assurance the Company's internal controls over financial reporting are designed and operating effectively.
• Adequately apply Company policies, procedures, accounting standards and appropriately seeks advice as necessary. Accurately evaluates the implications of new information or events and makes decisions in a timely manner.
• Perform reviews designed to evaluate risk and test internal controls, as well as identify opportunities for best practices and improvements. Determine alternative solutions to problems, evaluate courses of action and relevant areas of risk/opportunity and reach sound business decisions.
• Perform reviews designed to evaluate risk and test internal controls, as well as identify opportunities for best practices and improvements.
• Document accurate, logical, and detailed workpapers that clearly and thoughtfully describe the review objective, test procedures and results, and conclusions reached.
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships within the team and with business stakeholders
• Draft results timely and collaborate with the team to develop creative, yet practical, recommendations.
• Promotes teamwork and develops cohesiveness in achieving organizational objectives. Ability to adjust to changing schedule priorities, ability to multitask.
• Support and monitor controls remediation efforts.
• Strong focus on continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist in training new team members on controls. Proactively seeks and embraces formal and informal coaching opportunities.
• Meet deadlines and milestones for all assigned projects
• Ad-Hoc projects as needed

Qualifications & Technical Competencies Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Management or related field preferred
• Understanding of US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, COSO framework, and leading business practices
• 3 years relevant experience in Finance and/or 2 years in Audit, either within the Big 4 Audit Firm or in a multi-national organization.
• Prior experience within Risk & Compliance or Internal Control role, finance experience is preferred
• Microsoft Office skills, primarily Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
• Energetic, self-starter and strong focus on continuous improvement initiatives o Ability to multi-task and demonstrate strong organization skills o Strong oral and written communication skills
• Flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing and improving environment
• CPA

Preferred Qualifications

• High level of customer focus and ability to maintain a positive attitude at all times
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Self-directed, positive and ethical role model able to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to be an effective team member and display initiative
• Ability to maintain a professional demeanor at all times with suppliers, internal customers and coworkers; fully observe Dover's Code of Ethical Conduct, Employee Handbook "Personal Conduct of Employees" policies and ISO Quality System Standards

Company Overview
Dover Business Services empowers Operating Company growth by providing best-in-class operations expertise and services to increase capacity, improve controls and reduce operating costs. Throughout its global service centers, DBS leverages technologies managed by process experts to achieve standardization, simplification and efficiency; and does what is necessary to keep the business running smoothly so the leadership can focus on what is possible and achieve organic growth and margin expansion. A standard, centralized approach in DBS service offerings minimizes risk and supports strategic portfolio management. DBS exists to exploit scale and put best practices in place that reduce Operating company costs and expand margins; Seamless, highly responsive support of Dover Operating company is a top priority. Our standardization, technologies and human capital expertise will provide you with transparent, enhanced information that will support better, faster decision making. DBS enables its Operating companies to focus on Strategy, Core Competencies, Lean & Agile Margin enhancement, and Simplification.

Our Talent Value Proposition is to Empower, Engage, and Elevate our workforce through Best in class Employee Experience in the whole Talent cycle within DBS. We embody the values of COLLABORATIVE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT, RESPECTS AND VALUES PEOPLE, WINNING THROUGH CUSTOMERS, HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS, OPENNESS AND TRUST, and EXPECTATIONS FOR RESULTS. And we continue to blaze the trail in providing insightful solutions for our stakeholders. Our culture of Opportunity and Development, Coaching and Collaboration, Continuous Learning, Recognition and Impact, and Resultsdriven will help us achieve Our Vision of Becoming the provider of choice for our Operating companies and its customers.

We are located in Cebu, Philippines; Suzhou, China; and Cincinnati, Ohio. Our corporate headquarters is in Downers Grove Illinois