Financial Controller, NSC, Middle East

  • Full-time

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 55,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.  In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.72 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

REPORTING TO:  Chief Finance Officer, Eurofins Advinus

                                                          

REPORTING LOCATION: Bangalore, India

 

WORKING LOCATION: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

NUMBER OF FTEs UNDER RESPONSIBILITY: To be defined.

 

YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIRES:  10+ Years

 

POSITION & OBJECTIVES:

 

  • Drive Implementation
    • Support businesses to prepare implementation plans for key initiatives
    • Drive and implement projects personally when required
  • Business Operations Review
    • Responsible of the coordination of the budgeting process and the forecasting exercises for various business units in the region
    • Work closely with the controllers in the business units in the region to get strong understanding of the business situation
    • Ensure that the monthly and quarterly performance for the businesses in the region is well explained and reported by understanding variances in P&L, Net working capital, Capex and all other relevant financial matters
    • Analyze and alert on deviations between actuals and budgets, challenge the business solutions to bridge gaps and monitor the action plans taken
    • Make ad-hoc financial analysis as and when need
    • Assignments pertaining to operations reviews / improvements through interviews with the concerned persons and process walk through
  • Business Analytics
    • Improve, simplify, standardize and/or automate management information, reporting and KPI’s
    • Analysis of business KPIs to identify trends / gaps / opportunities
    • Competitor monitoring and tracking
  • Project Manager
    • Manage post M&A integration projects in the region, when needed
    • Support the coordination & implementation of Group’s Finance policies & procedures
    • Ad hoc project management, including the implementation of Finance IT systems supporting the Group’s controlling activities

    Qualifications

    • People
      • Ability to influence people through content and developing win-win arguments
      • Should not rely on position / power to exercise influence
    • Analytical
      • Strong data analysis and interpretation ability
      • Should be able to identify patterns / trends in data
      • Be able to correlate quantitative data with qualitative data to create a complete perspective on a situation
      • Strong excel skills and MS Office Products is essential. Knowledge of Power BI would be helpful
    • Business
      • Should have demonstrated ability to deep dive into a business and understand the dynamics of the same
      • Ability to view a problem holistically, considering people, process, and resource elements of an issue
      • Should be process oriented, and have demonstrated ability in designing process improvement / process redesign
      • Should have a solution focused mindset
    • Communication skills
      • Should be able to articulate issues and solutions orally and in writing

    Written communication should be crisp, logical, and structured, both in power point and in word format

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