Finance and Project Manager

OVERALL OBJECTIVES

As a Finance and Project Manager, you will take on a leadership role in the Eurofins finance organisation in Spain. The role includes leading Finance Projects (such as integrating acquired companies), Purchasing, Finance IT, and Payroll, ensuring current and new projects are successfully launched and executed exceptionally well.

POSITION

Lead and manage three departments, including purchasing, payroll and finance IT, contributing to the successful implementation of new projects:

• Purchasing/procurement
  • Develop and implement sourcing strategies in close collaboration with Group Purchasing and the local team.
  • Ensure Group-wide reporting on purchasing and the exact calculation of savings obtained.
  • Improve cost savings and price-volume-mix analysis and implement data analytics tools and reports to support business leaders in making strategic decisions.
  • Launch new projects mainly focused on indirect costs to achieve savings and synergies across the business lines.
• Payroll and HR administration
  • Support payroll, HR administration and the implementation of a payroll system, along with the Payroll Manager.
  • Set up payroll processes from scratch, defining tasks and controls, and designing the task distribution and organisation between the business lines and the service centre.
• Finance IT
  • Define and manage all relevant IT projects related to Finance and Purchasing.
  • Define, implement and ensure the application of optimised and harmonised processes in line with the Group standard for Finance and Purchasing.
  • Support the integration of new entities and improve the integration process from an IT perspective.
  • Lunch new IT-related projects with a strong focus on optimisation and automation.
• Driving the implementation of standard processes and systems
  • Actively contibute to and valide the design of standard Group-wide Finance & Purchasing processes.
  • Drive the implementation of these standard processes, KPIs and controls across the different businesses and functions.

• Driving the integration of newly acquired entities, improving the process and reducing integration time

Your profile:

We are looking for someone with strong leadership skills who is not afraid to stimulate open communication. Driven by the passion to succeed, you should not be afraid to challenge the “status quo”.

You should be a structured, accurate, highly reliable, and decisive leader, as well as a hands-on team player. Additionally, you should have the ability to dive into the right level of detail when needed.

Execution driven, accountability for hitting proposed targets, and people-oriented are some of the skills we are looking for, as well as being able to create a positive work environment and keep the team engaged in an honest and upfront way.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting or equivalent.
• Minimum of eight years’ work experience in finance, leading multiple teams, including finance, IT, purchasing and payroll.
• Excellent English and Spanish.

Join one of the fastest growing listed European companies, where successful leaders are frequently being offered increased areas of responsibility (subject to geographic mobility). Apply now!

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.