Group Technical Accounting And External Audit Senior Manager

The overall objective of this position is to support the Finance Organization (Group CFO, Senior Finance Directors, National Finance Directors and the Global Accounting & Consolidation Team) with IFRS technical accounting expertise and to manage external audit activities at Group level and across all companies of the Group in terms of scope, timing, budget and deliverables.

ROLE & OBJECTIVES:                    

As part of the Group Consolidation, Accounting, Financial Reporting, Technical Accounting and External Audit management team, the Group Technical Accounting and External Audit Senior Manager is driving the Company’s external audits and external financial reporting excellence.

It is important to note that in addition to the external audit of its consolidated financial statements, the Group carries statutory audits for 100% of the Group companies (ca. 1,300), even if not mandated by local regulation, as additional layer of control over the Group’s financials.

Relying on a solid expertise of relevant accounting rules (IFRS) and strong audit experience (ISA), this role will ensure compliance of the Group’s external financial reporting:

• Monitor adoption of new accounting and auditing rules; and analyze impacts to the organizational external financial reporting, supported by accounting positions papers. Focus should be impacts to Group reporting, with occasional support to National Finance teams on local changes.
• Support National Finance Directors and other Global Functional Finance Leads, with specific accounting matters (e.g. revenue recognition, goodwill impairment, M&A related accounting, litigations,…)
• Interact with Markets Regulatory Institutions (CSSF in Luxembourg and AMF in France) on material accounting topics;
• Take an instrumental role around the Group’s 2024 CSRD ESG reporting compliance, in close relationship with internal Sustainability teams;
• Align with Group external auditors on material accounting topics;
• Maintain Group Accounting Policies and Manual, including providing training to impacted finance staff globally;
• Coordinate the Group’s external audit during half-year and year-end close reporting in close relationship with the Group Accounting and Consolidation Director;
• Manage fees and appointments of external auditors across the Group, for consolidated activities, scope 1 (consolidated entities, ca 150, representing 70% of Group Revenues, EBITDA and Assets) and scope 2 entities (non-consolidated entities, ca 1,150), representing ca 30% of Group Revenues, EBITDA and Assets), in liaison with National Finance Directors for each country;
• Monitor and support National Finance teams with timely completion of all statutory audits by May of consecutive year;
• Track external audit findings and support local and Group Finance teams with remediation activities;
• Provide frequent updates on external audit status, fees, findings and corrective actions to the Audit Committee;
• Identify opportunities to optimize external audits at Group and local Component level, in close collaboration with other Finance (Senior) Directors, Internal Audit, IT teams and External Auditors.

• Master’ degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics or Engineering, from a leading university; MBA is considered a plus;
• Minimum 5-7 years of professional career in external audit, internal audit and/or financial controlling roles with increasing level & scope of responsibility. A successful experience in a significant external audit firm is a plus.  
• Technical accounting expertise around IFRS and ISA is required, Lux GAAP is considered a plus.
• Solid understanding of finance policies, processes and systems in a multinational environment
• Strong project & change management skills, showing a continuous drive to challenge the status quo and willing to achieve meaningful results;
• Team player with good interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.

PERSONALITY

• Self-starter, ownership and natural leadership & drive to get things done;
• Pragmatic and “roll up sleeves” mentality, can do attitude;
• Ability to appropriately prioritize between different conflicting deliverables, especially around half year and year-end reporting.
• Result driven, strong work ethics, high energy level, ability to get things done;
• Thinking big picture, yet understanding details;
• Cordial but firm, non-emotional;
• Comfortable to work in a dynamic, fast-growing environment and an entrepreneurial, de-central organizations.

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.