Finance Analyst

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 are 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.

Working hours are Monday – Friday, 09:00 – 17:00. As a Finance Analyst you will coordinate, develop and create finance models for both board and commercial operations reporting, future budget and forecast preparation to simplify current manual tasks. You will be responsible for producing, analysing, and communicating standard and ad-hoc reports to senior business leaders, facilitating efficient financial management and development of operational and commercial business sectors.

• Communicate monthly results and business performance to senior business leaders, providing variance analysis and commentary for both routine and ad‑hoc reports.
• Develop and simplify the budget process to ensure efficiency and clarity.
• Enhance finance processes to better support operations, governance, and control.
• Be the business champion for existing and future business support tools and help communicate the results in a meaningful manner.
• Interpret core transactional data provided by the SSC, manipulate it as required, work with the SSC to ensure Operations Finance receives the necessary information and that transactions are processed accurately and timely.
• Perform ad‑hoc financial duties as dictated by business needs.
• Act as a bridge between operational teams and senior management to align financial goals with business objectives.
• Conduct regular site visits to ensure a full understanding of the business and local issues.
• Review and challenge actual cost and margins vs. predicted margins.
• Assist the Finance Director in ensuring net working capital actions are implemented and new actions identified.

• Part-qualified accountant or qualified by experience.
• Understanding of routine monthly accounting close cycles and accounting standards.
• Comfortable contributing in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven, small team.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information to non‑finance managers and directors.
• Effective communication skills at all levels of an organisation.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Advanced Excel modelling skills.
• Time management skills and initiative, to appropriately prioritise activities whilst maintaining a strong attention to detail and meeting tight deadlines. Self‑starter.

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 confidential
• Health Cash Plan
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Rewards recognising the great work out employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees unique.

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 its requirements, giving you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enabling us to get to know your key skills and strengths.

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.

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.