Group Business Line Controller

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Eurofins Scientific is seeking a Business Line Controller to serve as the primary finance counterpart for Eurofins companies in the assigned Business Line, ensuring integrity and transparency of financial information for management.

You will oversee monthly and quarterly reporting, explain movements in P&L, working capital and Capex, coordinate budgeting and forecasting, and collaborate with finance directors and regional controllers to ensure alignment with reporting expectations.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills with collaborators across the Eurofins network.
• Excellent analytical skills with a focus on adding value.
• Effective problem-solver with pragmatic solutions and attention to detail.
• Advanced MS Office (Excel) skills.

Responsabilités

• Serve as primary finance counterpart for the assigned business line.
• Oversee monthly and quarterly performance reporting; explain P&L movements, working capital and Capex.
• Coordinate annual budgeting and periodic forecasting; consolidate inputs and challenge assumptions.
• Collaborate with financial directors, regional/local controllers, and operation leaders to align performance with reporting expectations.
• Support standardising, simplifying and automating financial processes and governance.

Connaissances

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Excel

Formation

Master’s degree in finance, economics or business

Outils

Excel

Description du poste

Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 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 its companies around the world.

Job Description

As a Business Line Controller, you will serve as the primary finance counterpart for finance staff from Eurofins companies in the assigned Business Line, ensuring integrity, consistency and transparency of financial information for management. You will oversee monthly and quarterly performance reporting, explain key movements in P&L, net working capital, Capex and other relevant financial matters from a corporate support perspective.

In addition, you will:

• Review, challenge and validate financial submissions from Eurofins companies to ensure compliance with policies, reporting standards, assumptions and timelines.
• Analyse deviations between actuals and budgets to inform management, and work with Eurofins companies to bridge gaps and monitor the actions taken.
• Monitor adherence to standard budgeting, forecasting and reporting requirements, ensuring the quality, reliability and consistency of financial data across Eurofins companies within your scope.
• Coordinate the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting activities for Eurofins companies in the assigned Business Line, consolidating inputs, challenging assumptions and providing management with a clear assessment of risks and opportunities. Regularly work with financial directors, regional and local controllers, finance teams and operational leaders across the network to ensure alignment of financial performance with reporting expectations.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of standard controlling methodologies, financial reporting standards, KPIs and governance processes.
• Drive the standardisation, simplification and automation of financial processes to improve the efficiency, accuracy and transparency of management reporting.
• Support the implementation of finance policies, procedures and controlling standards, and contribute to ad hoc analysis, finance projects and system implementations supporting standard controlling activities.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. interview skills, oral and written communication skills, presentation skills) as this role will involve close collaboration with operational leaders across the Eurofins network as well as local colleagues and experts.
• Excellent analytical skills with a focus on adding value.
• Effective problem-solver with “can-do” mentality, able to both pragmatically define solutions, and understand all relevant details when necessary.
• Technical knowledge IT: MS Office products with advanced level in Excel.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in finance, economics or business.
• 1 to 5 years of experience as a controller or financial analyst, or as an auditor. Controlling experience in a corporate support office is preferable.
• Excellent level of English. Relevant additional languages are considered a plus.

Additional Information

Weembracediversity!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.

Find out more on our Careers page:https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description:Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.