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Description

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Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve nature’s challenges for customers and communities. The company’s salt products help keep roadways safe during winter weather and are used in numerous other consumer, industrial, chemical and agricultural applications. Its plant nutrition products help improve the quality and yield of crops while supporting sustainable agriculture. Compass Minerals operates 12 production and packaging facilities with more than 1,800 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Visit compassminerals.com for more information about the company and its products.

Summary

The Internal Controls Manager is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving the company’s internal control environment across functions. This role partners with process owners to embed effective, sustainable controls into daily operations; leads remediation of gaps and deficiencies; and strengthens governance, risk management, and compliance practices aligned to COSO and SOX requirements.

Essential Job Functions include, but are not limited to the following:

_(Management reserves the right to add or modify the duties and responsibilities at any time.)_

+ Collaborate with process owners across the organization in various departments (Accounting, Operations, Procurement, HR, IT, etc) to design effective and efficient controls within workflows.

+ Assist control owners and operators in defining control objectives, control attributes and policies.

+ Provide training and guidance to control owners and operators across the organization.

+ Track deficiencies, root causes, and remediation plans.

+ Lead cross-functional remediation efforts and standardize corrective actions plans.

+ Prepare dashboards for Executive Leadership reporting on control health and remediation status.

+ Ensure documentation quality (process maps, narratives, RCMs, test evidence) meets audit standards.

+ Manage PBC listings, evidence quality, and audit-ready documentation; coordinate with external auditors.

+ Implement deficiency evaluation methodology (likelihood/magnitude) and aggregate deficiency assessments.

+ Support SOD design/monitoring and identity governance tooling.

+ Facilitate risk assessment workshops and translate risks into practical control activities.

+ Partner with IT as necessary for application, access, change-management, and interface controls.

+ Work with internal and external audit to develop test plans and oversee design & operating effectiveness testing.

+ Coordinate SOX scoping, walkthroughs, key control identification, and PBCs with external auditors.

+ Perform other related duties as required

Minimum Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

+ Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

+ 6 – 10+ years of experience in public accounting, audit (internal or external), or risk management.

+ Strong process and documentation skills.

+ Proven problem-solving skills.

+ Demonstrated attention to detail.

+ Effective oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

+ CPA

+ Public company SOX experience, including coordinating with external auditors.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compass Minerals is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are firmly committed to making all employment-related decisions without regard to race, ancestry, ethnicity, color, religious creed or belief, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy and breastfeeding), age, military or veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by law. Learn more about equal employment opportunity laws at dol.gov (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters) . Jan 2026.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.

For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.