Accountant

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

In all countries where the Eurofins Network has a significant presence, country-level support services are pooled into a National Service Centre (NSC), in order to be more efficient and effective, and to ensure an adequate level of compliance and control.

The accounting team at the Luxembourg National Service Centre office manages the accounting and reporting for the holding companies within the Eurofins Network.

Our team is looking for an Accountant (f/m/x) to assist in the accounting, reporting and financial controlling (including preparation of documents linked to audit or tax requirements) of our holding companies.

POSITION & OBJECTIVES:

Job description:

• Provide support with daily accounting from A to Z for a portfolio of multiple entities, ensuring consistency with the Luxembourg and the Group Chart of Accounts and rules, along with appropriate supporting documentation.
• Implement internal controls as per internal and external audits findings.
• Ensure accurate and timely Group reporting, on a monthly basis.
• Monthly intercompany reconciliation, follow-up on overdue items, and address business queries.
• Assist with intercompany loan-related topics including interest and foreign exchange.
• Follow up loan portfolio reconciliation and documentation with the Treasury team.
• Conduct balance sheet reconciliations and intra-Lux transactions follow-up.
• Ensure accurate and timely local and legal reporting, on a monthly, quarterly or ad-hoc basis.
• Help with the statutory annual financial statements, including notes to the accounts.
• Handle ad hoc requests from the Group Accounting and Controlling team.
• Address ad hoc requests from other Group services teams (compliance, treasury, legal or other financial directors).
• Regularly conduct inventories of various intercompany agreements and physical assets and reconciliation with the accounting records.
• Assist in defining and implementing enhancements to the accounting/finance processes and written procedures.
• Manage the takeover new entities and projects.

Profile description:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance/accounting
• Minimum 5 years of experience in accounting
• Strong organisational skills with excellent time management skills
• Very accurate and highly reliable
• Proactive, adaptable, and flexible
• Fast learner, with an agile mind and a keen interest in the varied nature of the position.
• Capable of working independently
• Good communication skills
• A team player who enjoys working in a small team
• Eager to work in an evolving, dynamic, and multicultural environment.

Requirements:

• French (fluent written and spoken)
• English (fluent written and spoken)
• Any additional language is an asset

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.