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**This role is hybrid and requires working out of our Portland, OR area HQ 2 days per week.

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we’re as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we’re proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It’s perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Columbia Sportswear Company continues to evolve at a rapid clip, responding to external global dynamics as well as transforming our internal processes and systems to drive growth. In this environment of fast and significant change, it’s critical for our risk management and internal controls programs to keep pace. Our Global Financial Compliance (GFC) team plays an important role in partnering with the business and management to design and deploy a Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program that mitigates the risk of material misstatement, while effectively responding to ongoing changes and shifts in dynamics. Our program affects a variety of critical stakeholders – including the Audit Committee, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Chief Information Officer and other members of the leadership team – as well as the investor community that relies on the accuracy and completeness of the financial information we report.

As our Financial Compliance Analyst, you will play a critical role in supporting core program operations, assessing and responding to risks, and working directly with many of our key stakeholders. You will leverage your experiences and skills to help ensure that our SOX program maintains pace with our rapidly evolving business environment. You will also be energized by the opportunity to help continuously improve our program.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Build a strong understanding of our business to evaluate processes, identify risks, and design and implement effective internal controls

• Support the annual risk assessment and scoping process

• Help to maintain SOX documentation, including risk and control matrices, narratives, and business process flowcharts

• Perform annual reviews of key third party service providers and their audit reports (SOC1)

• Administer the quarterly control self-assessment program

• Help to build and implement a management testing program to supplement the control testing performed by our Internal Audit team

• Support and coordinate aspects of control testing performed by Internal Audit and our external auditors

• Assist in innovating the use of our SOX compliance tool, AuditBoard

• Effectively coordinate and communicate with key stakeholders, including Finance leaders, Internal Audit, IT Compliance, and the external auditors

• Support and lead periodic issue and status communications

YOU ARE

Skilled in these areas:

• Project Management: Able to prioritize multiple tasks and activities to meet deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail; adaptable to changing needs of the department

• Critical Thinking: Insightful, creative, and collaborative; able to gather and analyze data and form relevant conclusions

• Process Consulting: Able to evaluate a process, identify material risks, and design effective controls

• Continuous Improvement: Able to apply an improvement lens when developing and executing program initiatives and activities

• Accountability + Honesty and Integrity: Demonstrate personal ownership over actions, tasks, and responsibilities; Open and truthful when communicating with others; aligns behaviors with core company values

• Enterprise Mindset: Apply a global point-of-view, understanding that a “one-size-fits-all” program model will not always be effective

• Communication: Able to effectively share information (verbal, in writing and via presentation) with leadership, cross-functionally, and with business partners from around the world

YOU HAVE

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field

• CPA, CIA, or other relevant certification desired

• 2-4 years of audit and/or SOX experience + Big 4 public accounting and/or large global corporate experience strongly preferred

• Consumer products industry experience is a plus

• Background in evaluating risk, processes, and controls

• Knowledge of SOX requirements, Public Company Accountability Oversight Board (PCAOB) trends, the COSO internal control framework and generally accepted accounting principles

• Exposure to IT general controls is a plus

• Experience with financial and compliance systems, including SAP, Microsoft D365, consolidation/reporting platforms, and AuditBoard is a plus

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Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.