Senior Associate - Technical Accounting and External Audit

The overall objective of this position is to assist the Technical Accounting & External Audits Senior Manager in driving the company’s accounting and external audit compliance. In this role, you will ensure that our external audits are managed in line with Group guidelines in terms of procedures, scope, timing budget and deliverables, as well as assisting in enhancing the Group’s accounting (IFRS) and internal controls framework.

In particular, you will:

• Ensure that our external audit firm appointments, including terms & conditions and fees, are in line with Group guidelines and standards.
• Ensure that all statutory audits are completed on-time and in line with Group guidelines.
• Provide oversight to the external audit fee approval process in our Global procurement system (Coupa).
• Monitor local statutory audit completion rates and work with local finance teams to mitigate potential audit issues and deficiencies.
• Engage in discussions on complex technical accounting and internal control topics.
• Participate in and facilitate the Group external financial and non-financial (ESG/CSRD) reporting process.
• Participate in Group-wide accounting and internal controls projects.
• Assist the responsible senior manager and/or senior finance director with frequent updates to the broader Finance organisation and Audit Committee on external audits and technical accounting topics.
• Participate in any mitigation process relating to internal and external audit findings.
• Participate in regular updates of the Group Accounting Manual.
• Participate in improving and developing Group accounting related training materials.

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or Auditing.
• 2-3 years of relevant professional finance experience, preferably in auditing and accounting (senior accountant / senior auditor in an audit practice) of multinational and/or listed company(ies).
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, ISAs, GAAS.
• Solid project & change manager, with a natural drive to challenge the status quo, and the ability to initiate & lead change that generates sustainable results.
• Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills.   
• Self-starter who takes initiative, can work independently and takes on necessary responsibility.
• High level of pragmatism and a ‘roll-up-your-sleeves’ attitude.
• Acts in a way that fosters inclusion, respect and ethical behaviour.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-growing environment and a decentralised, multinational organisation.

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! 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.