Business Controller

Job Description

As a Business Controller, you will be responsible for monitoring and analysing business performance, supporting budgeting and forecasting activities, and providing financial insights to local leadership and senior management.

You will work closely with different business functions to ensure accurate financial reporting, identify performance gaps, and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Review monthly P&L results and key performance indicators, identifying variances, errors and improvement opportunities.
• Analyse actual results against budget and forecast, develop corrective action plans and monitor their implementation.
• Prepare and coordinate monthly performance reviews and management reporting.
• Monitor working capital indicators, including DSO, DPO and DIO, against defined targets.
• Support the preparation of the annual budget and forecasts, covering P&L, CAPEX, working capital and operating expenses.
• Develop financial business scenarios and forecasts in response to significant business changes.
• Prepare cash flow forecasts and support funding requests when required.
• Define and maintain cost allocation rules, accounting principles and business structures.
• Monitor overhead and operational cost centres and ensure accurate cost reporting.
• Work closely with business teams to understand operational KPIs and assess their impact on financial performance.
• Support invoicing and internal cost recharge processes.
• Participate in procurement approval workflows and provide financial input where required.
• Support statutory and group audits.
• Monitor outstanding receivables, doubtful debts, and related collection processes.
• Manage local insurance requirements and monitor related processes and payments. 

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Controlling or Business Controlling.
• Solid background in Finance and Accounting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand complex business situations.
• Good understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and business performance analysis.
• Strong systems-thinking and data analysis skills.
• Confident command of English, both written and spoken.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with different business functions and senior stakeholders.
• Strategic mindset combined with a hands-on, solution-oriented and execution-focused approach.
• Proactive attitude towards continuous improvement and process optimisation.

Additional Information

• This role offers the opportunity to work closely with local leadership and multiple business functions, providing financial insights that support business decision-making.
• The position combines financial analysis, business partnering, planning and performance management, with a strong focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience with TM1, Coupa or similar financial/procurement systems will be considered an advantage.
• The successful candidate should be comfortable working in a dynamic, international environment and managing multiple priorities.

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 believes 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!

Find out more on our Careers 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.