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.
 

Summary of role and objectives:

• Performing audit missions across the Group in order to evaluate efficiency & effectiveness of the internal controls framework;
• Ensuring compliance with local laws, regulations, corporate policies & procedures;
• Providing recommendations on controls & process improvements and ensuring these are implemented (including validation & documentation in Group financial policies & procedures).

Role & Objectives: 

• Performing audit missions aimed at identification of internal control deficiencies and other accounting issues / non-compliance with IFRS;
• Ensuring compliance with corporate policies & procedures;
• Providing recommendations on controls & process improvements, and ensuring these are implemented (including validation & documentation in Group financial policies & procedures);
• Supporting deployment as well as evaluating efficiency & effectiveness of the internal controls framework,
• Advising on set-up and implementation of key internal controls principles (e.g. segregation of duties),
• Liaising with other Group functions to ensure control standards & best practices are deployed and operate effectively;
• Developing and refining audit toolkit (templates, tools, data repositories);

Qualifications and experience required:

• Min. 3-4 years of experience in Auditing/Internal Control or areas like controlling, accounting, reporting;
• Good technical and conceptual understanding of accounting under IFRS, finance policies, processes & controls,
• Experience in internal controls system deployment and its effectiveness assessment as well as segregation of duties implementation / verification is a plus,
• Excellent analytical and communication skills; pro-activity; enthusiasm;
• Very good knowledge of Standard Microsoft office products (especially Excel); familiarity with VBA, Power BI, Power Automate and ERP systems is a plus;
• Perfect fluency in written and spoken English. A good knowledge of French and/or German is a plus.

We offer:

• Possibility of career development in the international organization;
• Positive work atmosphere;
• Attractive salary and bonuses package;
• My Benefit System and private medical care;
• Possibility to grow within the company.

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! The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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 in our career 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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.