6-month Internship - IT Finance Controlling

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.

Job Description

Within the IT Group Controlling team, you will be responsible for monitoring and analysing financial data (Group IT expenses), tracking purchases, updating forecasts and maintaining the Group IT structure.

Furthermore, you will help your team members with consolidating and challenging different iterations of the annual Group IT budget. You will also aid month-end closing activities, including generating financial statements and management reports.

• Support the annual budget cycle, including forecasts and mid-term planning;
• Support the compliance cycle for budget deviations;
• Interact with the various accounting and payroll officers across the world to obtain monthly payroll data for IT sections and reconcile the payroll data with the Group financial reporting;
• Update/create management reporting on a monthly basis;
• Implement structure changes in the master data (creating and moving Business Units, creating Business Unit Clusters) and oversee the status throughout;
• Assist in the purchase order creation and approval process.

This internship is compensated. An internship agreement with your university is required.

Duration: 6 months.

Starting date: January/February 2024 and/or July/August 2024.

Being part of the Eurofins IT Group Controlling Team will provide in-valuable experience and exposure to kick-start your career. You will support the team on a range of challenging projects, with intensive coaching, and training, with clear areas of responsibility. You will take on challenges as part of a multi-cultural and cross-regional team in an international and fast-growing organisation.

Qualifications

Education: currently working towards a degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration;

IT skills: proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and/or Access, VBA Programming and knowledge of Coupa is a plus; affinity with IT;

Language skills: fluent English;

Personal skills: highly analytical and structured approach, strong reasoning abilities; self-motivated and able to troubleshoot and work independently with minimum supervision.

Additional Information

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!

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