Senior Accountant

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.

The accounting team in Brussels corporate office is in charge of the accounting of 10 legal entities composed of service entities. The Service entities provide group supporting services to Eurofins Operating entities across the world.

Our Accounting team is looking for a new Senior Accountant who will be responsible of the accounting, reporting and financial controlling (including preparation of documents linked to audit or tax requirements) of our 10 Belgium services entities, as well as the management of a Junior Accountant.

Job description:

• For a portfolio of several entities, daily accounting from A to Z ensuring consistency with the Belgium and the Group Chart of Accounts & rules and appropriate supporting documentation;
• Weekly preparation of payments and cash forecasts;
• Accurate and timely Group reporting, on a monthly basis;
• Inter-companies reconciliation, on a monthly basis;
• Accurate and timely local and legal reporting, on a monthly, quarterly or ad-hoc frequency;
• Master data management (new suppliers or customers, payment conditions, bank details update, new interco entities, …)
• Establishment of the VAT declarations and reclaims of foreign VAT;
• Preparation of the statutory annual financial statements, including notes to the accounts;
• Dealing with ad hoc requests from the Group Accounting and Controlling team;
• Dealing with ad hoc requests from other Group services teams (compliance, treasury, legal or other financial directors);
• Liaise with external auditors and manage annual audit for all entities
• Liaise with tax consultants for corporate income tax declarations (providing with explanations and supporting documentation);
• Help in defining and implementing enhancements of the accounting/finance processes and procedures
  
  

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Finance/Accounting
• Minimum 5 years of experience in accounting.
• Very structured, with strong organisational skills allowing to manage properly monthly deadlines
• Very accurate and highly reliable
• Proactive, adaptable and flexible
• Fast learner, with agile mind and attracted by the diversity of the position;
• Ability to work in an autonomous manner
• Good communication skills
• Team player enjoying working in a small team
• Eager to work in an evolving, dynamic and multicultural environment
• English (fluent written and spoken). French is a plus.
• Knowledge of accounting softwares/ERP
  
  

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!

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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.