Finance Director Eurofins Food Benelux

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.

Eurofins Food Testing Benelux is a network of companies dedicated to ensuring the safety of Food, Feed and Water in The Netherlands and Belgium. The network comprises 15 companies on 12 locations. The companies are divided into four business clusters, headed by a management team for NL and BE comprised of the managers of the clusters, the regional business line leader supported by an IT director and a Finance director. Sales approximates Euro 100m and the scope employs >700 FTE.

The Finance director is the “right-hand” to the regional business line leader, not only in financial topics, but also with regards to the strategic agenda in the cluster (organizational development, M&A etc.). He or she leads three small teams: Business Control (5 FTE), Credit Control (5 FTE) and Commercial System Support (2 FTE). Together these teams support the business and enable optimal financial performance. The teams are headed by experienced colleagues with a long tenure in the company but also contain young talents that recently joined. You report to the regional business line leader. Your office location is flexible: you can work from all locations and from home as well, just as your agenda determines it.

The finance function in the business is supported by a national service center responsible for financial controlling, purchasing, tax, legal and payroll. Accounting is performed centrally by a shared service center located abroad.

For this position, we are looking for an experienced finance leader (MSc. educated in Business Administration or similar) with at least 10 years of working experience, of which at least 3 managing a finance team, preferably with a strong focus on business controlling.

The challenges for the business that will determine the success in the next few years are on automation, consolidation and standardization. Finance can contribute to this by adding value in analyzing, reporting and advising on productivity, pricing and margin management and cost control, while also enabling the business to steer directly using uniform dashboards tailored to the specific functions in the business. Within Finance, further improvements can be sought in automation of processes and controls, freeing up time for value-added advising.

We are looking for someone who has a strategic mindset (helicopter view) but can also dive into details when needed. He or she is energetic, very good in communication (verbally, visually and in writing, both in Dutch and English), quickly gains understanding of the business and its drivers and can motivate his or her team as well as all stakeholders (inside and outside the business) to deliver results. You are sensitive to all stakeholders’ interests and can easily communicate across all levels of the business. You are analytical, detail-oriented but also persuasive. You are not afraid to ask difficult questions and challenge. The quality of the products you deliver is consistently high.

We offer a very energetic and dynamic environment with opportunities to grow and develop.  Next to a good financial package (fixed + variable), you have secondary benefits such as a full-electric lease car, 25 holidays (based on a 40h work week) with the possibility to buy more days. We enable hybrid working, a contribution to your monthly sports subscription and daily free fruit. Our pension scheme is modern and is based on a partial contribution of the employee. We are an inclusive company. You can take a holiday that is important for you in exchange for a mandatory holiday. We offer an individual budget (composed from 5 holidays, your holiday payment and your bonus payment) that you can use in various (fiscal friendly) ways.

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!

Find out more in our career 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 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.