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.
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.
Job Description
Group IT Controlling is looking for an IT Controller to support the Group IT Infrastructure and Security Department with cost controlling, budget planning, and administrative activities in line with Group recommendations and legal compliance. The IT Controller will report to the IT Controlling Team Lead and support IT Directors and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Day to day Controlling & Compliance for IT costs and IT fees allocation
- Preparation and reconciliation of the budget (participate, prepare, and supervise budgeting for assigned IT scopes, provide feedback to relevant IT Directors, challenge the quality and validity of the data)
- Various initiatives to drive cost transparency and cost reporting capabilities
Cost Controlling:
- Organize accurate cost tracking of IT Costs on a large scale - cost centers scattered across the globe
- Analyse deviations between actuals, budgets and forecasts, report to respective stakeholders, flag risks, challenge budget owners to bridge gaps and monitor action plans
- Coordinate proper implementation of agreed solutions such as asset activations, accruals bookings, proper P&L line use with local finance teams
- Profitability analysis and evaluation of IT infrastructure and security investments
Organisation:
- Explain and answer questions of business, finance & IT leaders regarding IT fees
- Work closely with Group IT & Group Finance to support the introduction and management of Group’s Finance policies & procedures
- Maintain financial set-up and flows of IT organisation
- Coordinate proper intercompany invoicing with National Service Centers
Qualifications
Skills:
- Dynamic, proactive, detail-oriented personality with a strong sense of responsibility regarding priorities, deadlines and data quality
- Very good interpersonal skills
- Advanced MS Office skills, especially Excel
- Pronounced analytical and communication skills
- Microsoft Dynamics AX knowledge (nice to have)
- PowerBI/Power Query knowledge (nice to have)
- Cognos TM1 knowledge (nice to have)
Education and/or Experience:
- Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics
- 3-5 years experience gained as a Controller/Financial Analyst/Accountant/Auditor
- English (fluent) required
- Experience with IT projects is a plus
Additional Information
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.