Director of Internal Controls

Company Details

Darling Ingredients repurposes and recycles materials from the animal agriculture and food industries - transforming them into essential ingredients that do everything from feeding animals to fertilizing crops to fueling planes and nourishing people. We're the number one publicly traded company of our kind, operating a global family of brands and businesses that span more than 260 facilities in over 15 countries. Our unique scale allows us to make entire industries less wasteful and more sustainable, helping move the world toward a more circular economy.

Darling Ingredients offers full time employees a full suite of benefits including but not limited to the following: 401(k), Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, and Paid Time Off.

Job Summary

The Director of Internal Controls will work with global SOX Champions and external auditors to help interpret new accounting pronouncements and reporting regulations and establish processes and design controls around the implementation of such. Annually, this position will also facilitate the performance of risk assessments needed to scope management's evaluation of the design and operating effectiveness of Darling's SOX framework, to include aligning the scope with external auditors globally. Also, a responsibility of this position is to work with control owners to ensure the impact of any SOX-related control deficiencies are properly assessed and documented as well as ensuring control owners are actively working to mitigate SOX control deficiencies noted throughout the year timely. The Director of Internal Controls will facilitate regular update meetings (to include Steering Committee Meetings) between management, Internal Audit and the external auditors and ensure resulting action items are followed up on accordingly. The Director of Internal Controls will possess strong analytical and project management the skills as well as skills necessary to communicate, navigate, influence and collaborate in a global, multi-faceted, dynamic organization.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

• Primary point of contact at Corporate between the external auditors and management on all matters relating to Darling's global SOX compliance program
• Work with management and the external auditors to ensure processes and controls are sufficiently designed and implemented to address new accounting pronouncements and regulations as well as changes in related people, processes and technologies that impact financial reporting risks and Darling's SOX framework
• Ensure Darling's SOX framework aligns with COSO and is supported by sufficient quantitative, qualitative and fraud risk assessment methodologies and results
• Coordinate with SOX champions globally as well as internal audit to ensure project execution and reporting timelines are established, aligned with the external auditors, and executed timely
• Ensure SOX documentation, to include process narratives and flowcharts, are developed where necessary and/or remain current
• Lead control owners in performing impact assessments of financial reporting control deficiencies as well as ensuring deficiencies are remediated timely
• Facilitate regular update meetings and communications between management, external and internal auditors, relating to the status of ongoing SOX compliance efforts and results.
• Look for opportunities to improve and optimize the company's SOX program through standardization, automation, centralization, etc
• Provide training to SOX control owners when/if controls change, or a change occurs in the ownership of SOX controls
• Support company due diligence efforts and timely implementation of Darling's SOX framework at newly acquired entities
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field
• 7 + years of accounting management, internal and/or external audit experience
• Exposure to working with multiple international jurisdictions at a global, publicly-traded company
• Current Certified Public Accountant, or similar certification
• Demonstrated experience with U.S. GAAP, IFRS and financial, operational and information technology auditing concepts, techniques and terminology
• Knowledge of auditing standards and the 2013 COSO framework

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills; must work well across various teams and be able to develop relationships with auditors and various levels of management.
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written, facilitation, and presentation.
• Demonstrated ability to use technology (Oracle, JDE, HFM, AuditBoard, etc.) to improve effectiveness, increase efficiencies, and quickly complete work objectives.
• Proven ability to multi-task, complete projects on time and on budget and adjust to changing priorities.
• Strong work ethic and high degree of initiative.

The information contained in this job description is intended to describe the essential job functions required of those assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job. Please note that management retains the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The ability to competently perform all the essential duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, demonstrated commitment to effective customer service delivery, integrity, and the ability to work productively as a member of a team or work group are basic requirements of all positions at Darling Ingredients.

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