Group Business Line Controller

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.

Profile description:

• 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.

We support your development! Do you feel like 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 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.