Job Description
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.
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 Description
As the General Ledger and Reporting Senior Accountant your primary focus will be to execute General Ledger processes for Eurofins Legal Entities (ELEs), ensuring compliance with internal procedures and documentation. You will act as a key partner to the NSC and Business, providing expertise and support in both accounting and process-related matters. Your role includes driving process improvements, participating in transition projects, and maintaining strong operational knowledge to support team continuity. This role plays a critical part in the month-end close process, audit coordination, and financial analysis, while also supporting continuous process improvements.
This position reports to the Team Leader.
Accounting operations in General Ledger Area
- Oversee and execute core General Ledger activities, ensuring a high level of quality, accuracy, and process efficiency across all tasks.
- Handle end-to-end Fixed Assets processes, including coordination with the business and NSC on assets under construction, reclassifying non-capitalisable items, performing asset additions and disposals, running depreciation, and resolving complex or ad hoc cases in line with accounting standards.
- Prepare and process journal entries, including standard SSC entries, ad hoc and complex postings, entries provided by NSC/business, and resolve AX processing errors to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Review and approve journal entries, ensuring accuracy, compliance with internal controls, and alignment with accounting standards.
- Perform Intercompany reconciliation by identifying discrepancies, requesting missing documentation, responding to standard queries, and independently analysing and resolving differences to ensure accurate financial alignment.
- Supervise end-to-end accounting processes for assigned legal entities, including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Intercompany, and Treasury, with a strong focus on accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Corporate reporting package and Cognos reporting
- Manage the monthly corporate reporting package, including uploading data to Cognos, reconciling recurring differences, completing required forms (e.g., Balance Sheet, P&L, FA table, Aging), and investigating discrepancies to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
Internal controls and process governance
- Ensure accuracy and data integrity in the end-to-end financial reporting process by maintaining full compliance with Internal Control System (ICS) requirements.
- Manage and update internal documentation, including Desktop Procedures and ICS manuals, to reflect current processes and support audit readiness.
Account reconciliation and Balance Sheet review
- Prepare and review Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations (BSAR), ensuring transparency and accuracy in account overviews, documenting balances, and escalating unresolved items when necessary.
- Perform subledger reconciliations for AP, AR, and Fixed Assets by identifying and resolving standard differences, investigating complex cases independently.
- Process monthly Balance Sheet and P&L fluctuation analysis, identifying key variances and providing explanations to support financial transparency and decision-making.
- Ensure completeness and compliance in reconciliation documentation and follow-up processes, supporting audit readiness and financial integrity.
VAT, TAX & External reporting and Audit support
- Support tax reporting processes on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, and assist with tax audits and inquiries from tax authorities.
- Ensure timely and accurate preparation of VAT returns, reviewing all supporting documentation and calculations.
- Implement and maintain effective controls to ensure the integrity of VAT reporting and filings.
- Coordinate with internal teams and external advisors to resolve VAT-related queries and issues.
- Identify opportunities to streamline tax processes and implement automation where possible
- Support annual audits and tax return processes by collaborating with external auditors and tax authorities to ensure compliance and timely delivery of required documentation.
- Prepare and provide standard audit data, including downloading reports from AX, completing standard templates, and responding to routine auditor and tax-related requests.
- Coordinate internal and external audit activities, ensuring smooth execution and adherence to regulatory and internal control requirements.
Knowledge management and transition support
- Maintain up-to-date process knowledge by tracking exceptions or changes, updating process catalogues, and proactively proposing improvements in collaboration with relevant departments.
- Act as a knowledge resource by informing NSC and business partners about process requirements and staying current with country- or entity-specific processes, especially in back-up areas.
- Support transition activities by participating in knowledge transfer and checkpoint meetings, preparing GL process overviews for business stakeholders, and identifying and resolving issues during transitions to ensure smooth handovers.
Stakeholder management
- Actively manage client relationships, taking ownership of communication from identifying needs to delivering final resolutions while maintaining a professional and responsive approach.
- Adapt communication style to suit the context, ensuring clarity and effectiveness in both written and verbal interactions, including meetings and calls.
- Build trust and long-term partnerships with key stakeholders (e.g., Financial and Business Controllers), addressing escalations constructively and fostering collaboration through consistent, solution-oriented engagement.
Process improvement
- Actively identify and implement improvement opportunities within daily operations, driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team performance and process efficiency.
- Participate in process optimisation projects, taking ownership of accepted changes and supporting their execution.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and guiding less experienced team members in developing effective solutions.
Team support
- Support team development by training new joiners, acting as a go-to person for complex accounting and process-related questions, and guiding colleagues on cross-process (PTP, OTC, RTR) issues, while providing guidance and mentoring to build team capability and ensure best practices in accounting processes.
- Act as a support for the Team Leader when needed, assisting with organizational and administrative initiatives and ensuring continuity in team operations.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders by responding to queries from Operating Companies, supporting ELEs and HQ on ad-hoc tasks, and maintaining high-quality service delivery.
Scope of responsibilities may be extended depending on the supported business area, process changes, organisational needs, or at the discretion of the Team Leader. This includes close collaboration with cross-functional teams such as Tax, Operations, and Business to ensure alignment on accounting treatments and effective support during month-end and year-end closing activities.
Qualifications
Education:
- Higher education degree (Finance or related).
- Additional training or certification is a plus.
Professional experience:
- Experience in RtR accounting – min. 3,5 year, 4 years preferred,
- Previous experience in in SSC/BPO environment will be an additional asset.
Personal skills:
- Strong, clear, and professional communication skills, tailored to audience needs.
- Taking ownership of complex problems, anticipates risks and responds quickly without postponing or avoiding challenges.
- Customer-focused and accountable, prioritizes tasks, monitors progress, and drives resolution—even under pressure.
- Collaborative in approach and adaptable to change, effectively works across diverse teams and departments, fostering strong working relationships and supporting evolving priorities, processes, and technologies with flexibility and resilience.
- Focusing on continuous learning and structured execution, remains up to date with industry best practices and accounting standards, while efficiently managing multiple tasks and deadlines without compromising accuracy, quality, or attention to detail.
- Proactively acting in risk management, ensuring quality and identifying issues early to maintain stability in dynamic situations.
- Delivering and promoting high-quality customer service, independently solving issues and guiding others in similar situations with ownership and confidence.
Technical skills:
- Strong knowledge of accounting processes including interactions and dependencies across PtP, OtC, and RtR scopes.
- Ability to independently prepare and validate complex journal entries, with full awareness of their financial impact.
- Leading and executing intercompany (ICO) reconciliations for highly complex entities, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Delivering reporting for complex or non-stabilised entities, resolving non-standard issues with minimal supervision.
- Proficiency in financial consolidation and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos), supports accurate and efficient financial close processes through effective use of technology.
- Demonstrating deep knowledge of IFRS and/or local GAAP, ensuring consistent and accurate application of accounting standards in operational and reporting activities.
- Interpreting data in financial templates with precision, offering insights into balance sheet and income statement implications.
- Leading and coordinating internal and external audit activities, ensuring full compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements.
- Advanced in ERP systems, combines strong understanding of system controls with a focus on identifying automation opportunities to streamline accounting processes and enhance data integrity.
- Expert in Microsoft Excel, leverages pivot tables, advanced formulas, data analysis tools and ensure accurate data validation.
- Experienced in driving process improvement initiatives, from identifying inefficiencies to documenting and implementing enhanced workflows that improve accuracy and reduce cycle times.
Language skills:
- English on B2 level, additional languages are a plus.
What We Offer:
- Full-time contract
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid work model (after training)
- Comprehensive onboarding and internal training (first 2 months on-site)
- Attractive benefits:
- Private medical care
- Meal vouchers (€10.20/day)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Birthday day off
- Nomad Program
- Referral Program
- Social events: Winter & Summer parties, team building, volunteering activities
- Career development opportunities
- A chance to shape the future of a growing international SSC
Be Part of the Transformation
If you’re excited by the idea of building something new, driving change, and growing with a purpose-driven company, Eurofins Business Services Portugal is the place for you.
Additional Information
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 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 950 laboratories in 60 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.
