Finance Controller

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.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins.

Job Description

Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. 

20 Hours per week.  Monday - Friday.  09.00 - 14:00.  Hybrid role.

Purpose of the post: 

Responsible for providing financial leadership, performance analysis, and business partnering support to drive profitable growth and operational excellence by working with the MD and senior leadership team. The role ensures business strategy is financially stress tested and challenged, integrated into budgeting processes and tracked/delivered against appropriate financial review mechanisms.

Supporting sustainable growth by enhancing financial visibility, identifying risks and opportunities, challenging business assumptions, and ensuring effective resource allocation while maintaining strong financial governance and compliance.

• Partner with Business Line and Operations leadership to develop and execute the annual business strategy, ensuring alignment with revenue, profitability, and growth objectives. 
• Drive financial performance by translating strategic initiatives into measurable targets and KPIs. 
• Challenge business assumptions and support decision-making through data-driven analysis, scenario modelling, and business case evaluations. 
• Monitor business performance against budget, forecast, and strategic plans, proactively identifying risks and opportunities. 
• Lead monthly business reviews and provide actionable recommendations to improve financial and operational results.
• Support the successful delivery of Group-led transformation and growth projects by providing robust financial analysis, cost management, profitability assessment, and performance tracking including study and hourly rate calculations.
• Own the monitoring and optimization of Operational and Overhead Cost Centres (OOCC), ensuring costs remain aligned with budget expectations and strategic objectives. 
• Analyse cost variances, identify root causes, and work with operational leaders to implement corrective actions. 
• Establish and monitor cost efficiency initiatives to improve productivity and profitability.
• Support the development, tracking, and achievement of Business Target Management (BTM) objectives across revenue, margin, productivity, and operational KPIs. 
• Maintain reporting tools and dashboards to monitor BTM performance and provide visibility to management teams.
• Assess the financial impact of facility investments, expansions, consolidations, or reconfiguration projects. 
• Support decisions regarding laboratory, production, or office space allocation to maximize operational efficiency and return on investment.
• Lead planning, budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring of personnel costs, including salaries, benefits, overtime, temporary labour, and recruitment expenses. 
• Partner with HR and business managers to ensure workforce plans align with business strategy and financial targets.
• Deliver accurate and timely management reporting on business performance, profitability, cost control, and strategic initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, financial controls, and governance requirements as well as ESG initiatives. 
• Support budget and forecast processes, providing insight into key business drivers and operational trends.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve profitability, resource allocation, and operational efficiency. 
• Influence decision-making by balancing financial discipline with commercial and operational priorities.
• Drive a culture of cash awareness across the business by ensuring financial decisions consider profitability, working capital impact, and return on investment.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of management accounting, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Understanding of KPI development, profitability analysis, cost control, and business performance management.
• Ability to analyse complex financial data and provide actionable business insights.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.
• Ability to identify and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency and control.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (with finance and non-finance individuals), with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Highly organised, resilient, and able to work effectively under pressure while meeting deadlines.
• Experience providing financial support and analysis to operational or commercial leaders.
• Proven track record of driving business performance through data-driven decision-making.
• Qualified finance professional
• ACA, CIMA or ACCA or equivalent
• Commitment to continuing professional development.

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates   
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work our employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Your data 
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
 Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

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 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/