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.
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Eurofins is looking for a Group Net Working Capital (NWC) Controller to join the Group’s Treasury team. Net Working Capital is one of the key financial metrics for the Eurofins network and it is subject to continuous improvement.
In this role, you will take charge of the NWC and ensure that the Group significantly reduces its NWC level. Your responsibilities will involve collaborating with management across all levels, implementing necessary actions, fostering best practices among Eurofins companies, and establishing specific goals and tools.
As a Group NWC Controller, your work will include:
- Monitoring and assessing NWC Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), such as DSO, DPO, inventory, and other financial metrics
- Conducting performance comparisons against budget and previous periods to ensure continuous improvement
- Maintaining accurate treasury-related data within our existing system
- Utilising our advanced reporting tools to create a dedicated dashboard, enabling efficient tracking of NWC KPIs at both local and Group level
- Identifying legal entities that deviate from expectations and developing action plans to rectify non-compliance
- Producing reports to alert management to any deviations
- Sharing best practices & solutions
- Contributing to the budget process by partnering with our Group Treasury and controlling teams to set realistic NWC targets for each scope
- Participating in exciting Group Treasury projects related to NWC and other strategic areas (ERP, etc.)
We're looking for candidates with the following qualifications:
- Master's degree in Business Administration or Finance
- Successful prior working experience (2-3 years) as a Controller, Financial Analyst or in Audit is mandatory
- Good knowledge of accounting principles and understanding of business processes (P2P, C2C)
- Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills to drive effective decision-making
- Meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering accurate work
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks
- Fluent English language proficiency to facilitate seamless communication
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, ensuring effective collaboration and inspiring team members
Join us and thrive in a dynamic, fast-growing, and entrepreneurial workplace!
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! Eurofins network of companies believe 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 also 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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
