Finance Director - Poland & Baltics

National Service Center (NSC) Manager / Finance Director – Poland & Baltics

In all countries where Eurofins companies have a significant presence, there is a National Service Centre (NSC) which offers country level support services in order to be more efficient, more effective and to drive an adequate level of compliance and control. The Finance Director leads the NSC organisation. The scope of services provided by the NSC includes:

• Accounting and Reporting
• Payroll
• Tax
• Legal compliance
• Treasury and cash management
• Insurance
• IT solutions for all services rendered by the NSC,

We are looking for a Finance Director to manage the NSC that serves the Eurofins legal entities in Poland and the Baltic countries.

Position and objectives

• Manage financial accounting including month- and year-end closing, ensuring reliable and timely reporting in cooperation with the Shared Service Centre, also based in Poland;
• Coordinate and deliver statutory, tax and corporate reporting for the Eurofins entities in Poland and the Baltic countries;
• Cooperate with internal and external auditors;
• Ensure tax compliance and act as a key point of contact for tax authorities;
• Manage and coordinate legal advice to the business (commercial, corporate and labour law) through external providers and Group resources;
• Manage payroll, ensuring compliance and efficiency;
• Support Finance IT initiatives from the country perspective including implementation of new systems and integration of acquired legal entities;
• Participate in Group Finance projects and improvement initiatives;
• Support in the onboarding of new legal entities acquired through M&A;
• Set up and systematically improve the organisation to efficiently deliver on the services in the scope of the NSC. Driving and communicating on the performance of the NSC through measurements, KPIs, action plans etc.,
• NSC (National Service Centre) team management and development (size of the team: ~20)

Qualifications and skills

• Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance; nice to have – international professional qualifications (ACCA, CIMA);
• Fluent spoken and written English (C1);
• Solid understanding of international accounting standards, relevant tax practice and transfer pricing rules;
• Ability to go into detail when needed as well as maintain a ‘helicopter view’
• Results oriented
• Change agent, “can do” mindset constantly challenging the status quo
• Pragmatic, proactive, flexible and adaptable
• Structured with strong organisational skills
• Ability to work in an autonomous manner

Experience

• At least 10 years of working experience in finance and managerial experience (for example as Finance Manager).
• Experience in managing an accounting department as Finance Manager or Chief Accountant, or as manager/leader in a Shared Service Center (SSC)
• Experience with implementation and role out of financial processes and systems
• Knowledge of Polish tax and corporate legal requirements
• Background in financial audit is considered a plus

Additional information

• Complex and dynamic working environment within a fast-growing international company;
• Possibility to fully utilise your skillset and grow together with the company;
• Great exposure to a variety of business environments and senior management.

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!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins Network of companies believe 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.

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.