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    General Ledger & Reporting Senior Accountant

    Braga, PortugalHybridFull-timePosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    Senior General Ledger & Reporting Accountant

    Hybrid | Full-time

    Ready to take the next step in your accounting career and move into a role with real ownership and influence? Join our international Shared Services Center and play a key role in driving financial excellence, leading processes, and supporting business-critical decisions.

    Your impact

    As a Senior GL & Reporting Accountant, you won’t just execute processes — you’ll own them, improve them, and help shape how finance operates across multiple entities.

    You’ll act as a trusted partner to both Finance and the business, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement in everything you do.

    What you’ll be doing

    General Ledger Leadership & Month-End Close

    • Lead and oversee General Ledger activities, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance
    • Play a key role in the month-end close and financial reporting process
    • Review and approve complex journal entries and accounting treatments

    End-to-End Accounting Ownership

    • Supervise full accounting scope for assigned entities (AP, AR, Inventory, Treasury, Intercompany)
    • Manage complex Fixed Assets processes and accounting scenarios
    • Ensure high-quality financial data across all processes

    Reconciliations, Analysis & Insights

    • Lead intercompany reconciliations and resolve complex discrepancies
    • Own Balance Sheet reconciliations and ensure full transparency
    • Deliver meaningful P&L and Balance Sheet analysis to support decision-making

    Reporting, Tax & Compliance

    • Own corporate reporting packages and ensure timely submissions (e.g., Cognos)
    • Support and coordinate VAT, tax reporting, and audits
    • Ensure full compliance with internal controls (ICS) and accounting standards

    Process Improvement & Transformation

    • Identify, drive, and implement process improvements and automation opportunities
    • Actively contribute to optimisation projects and finance transformation initiatives
    • Standardise and enhance accounting processes across entities

    Stakeholder & Team Leadership

    • Act as a key point of contact for stakeholders, building strong, trust-based relationships
    • Lead communication and resolution of complex issues
    • Support, mentor, and guide junior team members
    • Step in as backup to the Team Leader when needed

    Knowledge & Transition Management

    • Act as a subject matter expert in GL processes
    • Support transitions, knowledge transfer, and documentation improvements
    • Ensure continuity and scalability of accounting operations

    What we’re looking for

    Experience & Education

    • Degree in Finance, Accounting, or similar
    • 3.5+ years of experience in Record-to-Report (RtR) accounting
    • Experience in SSC/BPO environments is a strong plus

    Leadership & Mindset

    • Strong ownership and proactive problem-solving mindset
    • Ability to lead complex topics independently
    • Natural collaborator with strong stakeholder management skills
    • Comfortable working in a dynamic, international environment

    Technical Expertise

    • Advanced knowledge of accounting principles (IFRS/GAAP)
    • Strong experience with ERP systems and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos)
    • Advanced Excel skills (data analysis, automation, validation)
    • Experience in audits, tax processes, and complex reconciliations

    Languages

    • English (B2 or higher)
    • Additional languages are a plus

    What we offer

    • Hybrid working model
    • Flexible working hours
    • Structured onboarding and training program
    • Competitive benefits package, including:
      • Private medical care
      • Meal vouchers
      • Annual bonus
      • Birthday day off
      • Referral program
      • Social events & team activities

    Plus, the opportunity to take real ownership, influence processes, and grow within an international and fast-evolving finance environment.

    Why join us?

    Because this is more than a Senior Accountant role — it’s a chance to lead, improve, and make a lasting impact on how finance operates at scale.

    If you're ready to step into a role where your expertise matters and your voice is heard, we’d love to meet you.
    Be Part of the Transformation

    If you're excited by the idea of building something new, driving change, and growing with a purpose-driven company, Eurofins Business Services Portugal is the place for you.

    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 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 950 laboratories in 60 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.

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    About the company

    Eurofins

    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. Eurofins PSS Insourcing has an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our team.  We are searching for a business development professional with proven experience selling and implementing high-value sales.  Someone who thrives on identifying and closing new business caring for the client through the process will succeed in this role. This position offers the excitement of hunting for new clients with the goal of diversifying our offerings and client base as well as the opportunity to foster and expand partnerships with key clients.  This is a hybrid role working remotely from a home office, travelling locally and within the region for prospect and current client meetings as well as full days spent at current client sites to maximize networking and relationship building opportunities. A successful candidate will have a proven track record and is comfortable reaching out to and meeting with high level decision makers including C-Suite.  This position will manage the strategic sales process including identifying client needs, defining and presenting how PSS can address them, as well as managing the implementation process for new programs. If you’re looking for a rewarding career, a place to call home, apply with us today! 

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