Senior Accountant PtP (Accounts Payable)

Eurofins Scientific

Eurofins Scientific

Accounting & Finance
Braga, Portugal
Posted on Nov 26, 2024

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

As Senior Accountant you will be responsible for:

Invoice processing (correction of entries in Coupa and on AP subledger in ERP system, review and approval of manual journal entries submitted by other team members in ERP system, requesting changes in supplier master data to ensure correct payments, regular review and follow up on invoices pending in Coupa);

Supplier queries handling;

Travel and expenses processing;

Payment processing (preparing batch payment proposals in ERP system, checking open positions to ensure no double payments are made and credit notes are settled, if possible);

AP Aging and Analytical Review (regular review and settlement of open positions in ERP system with focus on aged items, debit balances clean up, ICO mid-month reconciliation process to ensure complete payments to ICO counterparties, generation of periodic reports related with process steps);

Month-end activities (preparing accruals, MEC calendar update);

Knowledge maintenance (updating process catalogues and propose adequate changes in cooperation with proper company departments);

Transition involvement (participation in knowledge transfer meetings/checkpoints meetings together with Team Leader, preparing AP process overview for the business, highlighting and resolving issues encountered during transition);

Improvement process (continuously seek improvement opportunities for executed activities & highlight potential improvements);

Stakeholder management.

Qualifications

What are we expecting:

Experience: Strong experience In finance area, within BPO/SSC in AP department

Languages: Very good English (both writing and speaking);

Skills: Good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel;

Additional qualities: Diligence, reliability, attention to details and good organization skills;

What we offer:

  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid work model
  • Attractive package of benefits: private medical care, Meal Vouchers (9,6 Euro/daily), annual bonus scheme
  • Possibility to develop yours career
  • International and creative work environment
  • Possibility to build processes and standards

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 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.