Finance Director Group Services Centre

Job title:

Finance Director Group Services Centre

Company:

Eurofins

Job description

Company DescriptionEurofins 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.Job DescriptionIn all countries where the Eurofins Network has a significant presence, country-level support services are pooled into a National Service Centre (NSC), in order to be more efficient and effective, and to ensure an adequate level of compliance and control.The Finance Director directly manages the National Services Centre, delivering services for Group management entities and holdings in Luxembourg and Belgium. They also act as the custodian of the quality of the financial information and processes for Group service functions outside of these two countries (Ireland, Poland, India etc.)Specifically, with a team of circa 10 employees located across two sites (Brussels and Luxembourg), and in strong cooperation with the Group Service Centre stakeholders (M&A, Legal, Treasury, Group Accounting etc.), the Finance Director is responsible for:

• Day-to-day leadership and performance management of the finance teams, processes and activities, including the development of strong teams (accounting & reporting, payroll & HR, treasury, tax & legal, finance IT)
• The quality, efficiency and compliance of the services delivered for the Belgian and Luxembourg service centers (external audits, internal controls, etc.)
• Invoicing all ‘Group’ fees to the operating legal entities in a timely and reliable manner
• Direct management of the Finance and Payroll teams in Brussels and compliance with local regulations on those two fields
• Overseeing and aligning the financial activities of other Group service functions outside of Belgium and Luxembourg, in strong collaboration with the relevant stakeholders (local controllers and Finance Directors, in particular)
• Acting as the ‘Subject Matter Expert’ for Inter-company transactions (responsible for Group guidance and process description and improvement, managing the ‘Inter-co community’, etc.).

QualificationsPersonal skills

• People manager and motivator
• Experience in reorganisation and change management
• Strong organisational skills and ability to evaluate and improve efficiency and progress of the organisation
• Change agent, “can do” mindset, constantly challenging “status quo”
• Results oriented
• Structured, details oriented, accurate and highly reliable
• Good communication skills
• High level of energy, drive and passion to succeed
• Pragmatic, proactive, flexible and adaptable
• Ability to work in autonomously

Education

• Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Engineering or equivalent.

Previous experience

• 8-12 years of experience (preferably at least partly in Belgium for Finance/Tax/Payroll knowledge), of which 2-3 years in a similar position
• Experience in a big 4 audit firm is a plus

Language skills

• English (fluent written and spoken)
• French is beneficial

Additional InformationWe 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! The Eurofins network of companies believes 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 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.

Expected salary

Location

Bruxelles

Job date

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:41:23 GMT

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