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.
 

As the Finance Director of our Finance Service Centre in Hungary, you will lead and oversee financial operations across the country. Your responsibilities will encompass key areas such as Accounting and Reporting, Purchasing, Finance IT, Payroll, Tax, Treasury, and Insurance & Risk Management. You will ensure the smooth execution of daily financial activities, driving reliable and efficient processes, while fostering and inspiring strong teams.

In this role, you will manage accounting and reporting processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial closing for all Hungarian entities. Additionally, you will oversee relationships with external auditors, ensure compliance with Group policies, and support business managers in budget preparation and financial reporting.

You will lead credit collection efforts, manage treasury operations, and ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations. This includes maintaining effective relationships with local banks and ensuring financial discipline in areas such as cash flow generation and cost management. You will also be responsible for proposing and implementing corrective actions when necessary to meet financial targets.

In addition, you will oversee payroll and HR administration, ensuring all employees are correctly managed and paid in accordance with local laws. In the procurement area, you will contribute to sourcing strategies, optimise procurement processes, and manage costs while ensuring that service and quality standards are upheld.

Finally, you will manage Finance IT projects, ensuring the successful implementation of standardised processes and systems across finance and purchasing functions. Working closely with Group Finance, you will ensure that these processes align with the company’s broader goals and strategies.

To be successful in this position, you should have a master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field, along with 5 to 8 years of professional experience, including at least 2 to 3 years in a similar role. Previous audit experience and work within an accounting firm will be beneficial, and experience in National Service Centres or Shared Service Centres is advantageous.

Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.

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 believe 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 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.