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.
Chemtest is part of Eurofins; we are an award winning company providing routine analytical services and bespoke specialist testing throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe. Our staff are employed across a number of strategically placed locations, all utilising the latest technologies. Our laboratories are UKAS accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and, where applicable the Environment Agency MCERTS Performance Standard for soils.
Job Description
Working hours: 40 Hours per week, Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:30pm
* Work with the Managing Director and Executive team to develop a short / medium / long term strategic financial plan to underpin business performance and delivered in line with financial controls required to run an efficient business.
* Provide the Executive and Leadership team with advice and support on the financial implications of business activities and support planning initiatives through robust financial data, management information, analysis, reports and recommendations.
* Ensure timely and accurate production of monthly and annual reporting alongside National Service Centre Financial Controller and Shared Service Centre in Poland. This will require a hands-on approach with some management accounting tasks expected.
* Understand, challenge and take a critical view of the P&L and provide commentary on key variances.
* Ensure forecasting is up to date and accurate reflection of the current outlook of business performance with strong attention to detail on revenue, gross margin costs and personnel costs over that same period.
* Responsible for co-ordinating and producing the annual budget pack and analysis in preparation to present to Eurofins Group for review and approval.
* Monitor cash-flows, accounts and other financial transactions with emphasis on improved Net Working Capital and improved Debtor and Creditor days performance.
* Identify, drive and be proactive in introducing changes to the current process which support reduction in business costs or improve deficiencies in the internal controls.
* Lead, empower, develop and mentor the Finance team and purchasing teams.
* Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive the business forward.
* Represent the business and support any new finance initiatives and projects driven internally or externally by the National Service Centre, Wolverhampton.
* Oversee and be responsible alongside the National Service Centre Financial Controller for the annual statutory audit.
* Review and drive internal controls to ensure financial systems and processes are robust, compliant and support the needs of the business and minimise financial risk to the business.
* Manage in liaison with Group: Company insurance, company cars, company pensions and life cover, company tax matters including VAT.
* Support and challenge sales and commercial activities of the business.
* Project work as necessary.
Qualifications
The Candidate:
Ideal Candidate would possess:
* Excellent people management skills; experience in leading change and management of multiple work streams
* Strategic thinking capabilities; taking into account full business performance and not solely financial impact
* Strong organisational skills
* Excellent financial acumen
* Customer centric outlook
* Fine communication (oral and written) and attention to detail
* Energetic and positive attitude.
* Excellent computer skills and statistical analysis experience
* Leadership: inspire passion, to achieve excellent performance and empower teams
* Takes ownership, proactive and self-starting
* Integrity
* Decision making
* Work life balance
Qualifications
/ Experience / Skills:
* Professional qualified at CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent.
* Proven work experience – Finance & Business Management (5+ years)
* Highly motivated and desire for implementing change.
* Relevant experience working in a Business Controller/ Financial Controller capacity
* Technical knowledge IT: MS Office products with advanced level in Excel
* Strong knowledge of business processes
* Experience with different Finance IT Solutions tools such as ERP-tools, PSA-tools, BI-tools, reporting-tools; AX/GP (Microsoft)
* Willing to take ownership of duties from top level reporting to more granular management accounting, as well as ownership of external parties
* Knowledge UK GAAP/IFRS
* Basic knowledge UK Tax
* Basic knowledge UK corporate legal
* Fluent in English (written and spoken) any other European languages would be advantageous
* Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. oral and written communication skills, presentation skills) as this role will interface with leaders of the Group as well as local resources and experts
* Proven change management and influencing skills Strong flexibility & communication
* Strong analytical skills, focus on adding value
* Strong problem-solver with “can-do” mentality, able to both pragmatically define solutions and capture and understand all relevant details
Additional Information
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.
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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 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!
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