We are looking for an experienced Business Controller to oversee all financial processes across our four Benelux sites (Leiden, Nijmegen, Oss and Nazareth). In this key role, you will partner closely with business stakeholders to provide strategic financial insights, manage forecasting and budgeting cycles, and ensure that financial management supports our long-term objectives. You will lead the Credit Controller, act as a trusted financial advisor to the Managing Director and Management Team, and serve as the primary external contact for financial matters. This is an opportunity to shape financial performance, drive operational excellence, and support the continued growth of our organization.
- Ensure that financial management is aimed towards executing the company strategy and achieving the strategic goals;
- Analyze financial statements for deviations from budgets and planning, recognizing trends and in-depth understanding of the business;
- Manage and execute the budgeting and forecasting;
- Prepare operational and financial reports, including but not limited to business cases, management reports and mid-term plans;
- Cost price and margin calculations of company's services;
- Business Intelligence: develop relevant analysis, reporting, interpretation and projections in fields of sales, market segments, operations and other areas;
- Cash flow management: management of Net Working Capital, Days Sales Outstanding, Days Payables Outstanding;
- Managing the Credit Controller who reports directly to you and is responsible for operational cash flow management;
- Identify potential cost savings, such as in purchasing. Guiding and improving the use of the purchasing system Coupa;
- Initiating and supporting financial projects;
- Financial partner of the Managing Director and the other members of the Management Team;
- External point of contact for all financial matters, including but not limited to contact with financial auditors.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of science in a relevant financial study with minimum of 3 years of experience in a financial or business controller role;
- Fluent in Dutch and English;
- Strongly analytical, practical, and intrinsically motivated self-starter with an interest in directly supporting a growing business;
- Team player, and takes initiative in building relations with his/her direct colleagues;
- Hands-on, hard worker, and focused on achieving results;
- Has advanced knowledge and experience with modeling in Excel;
- Able to convince others and is used to working with deadlines;
- Excellent social and communication skills;
- Located in the Netherlands with a valid work permit.
Additional Information
This position is based at Eurofins NBLSC (part of Eurofins PROXY Laboratories B.V.) on the Bio Science Park in Leiden. We have a close-knit team where collegiality and collaboration come first. We offer a responsible and challenging position within the team with room for your own ideas and input. Eurofins NBLSC also offers:
- A competitive salary;
- Flexible working hours;
- 25 days of vacation (with the option to purchase 7 additional days);
- Travel allowance of 23 cents net per kilometer. Are you traveling by public transport? Then your travel expenses will be fully reimbursed via NS Business Card;
- Participation in a pension scheme with 50% contribution by Eurofins;
- Each month, you accumulate a choice budget balance of 8.5% of your gross salary. This includes, among other things, holiday pay and a year-end bonus. You can choose to have this amount paid out, or you can use it to buy extra days off, for example. You choose what suits you best;
- Discount on additional health insurance;
- Tax benefit via FiscFree when purchasing various products and services via your gross salary, such as a bicycle, sports contribution, fitness, mobile telephony, computers & tablets or a weekend away;
- Professional training and opportunities for training and development;
- Training options via the online learning platform Good Habitz.
Working at Eurofins NBLSC offers you the flexibility and personal touch of working in a medium sized and dynamic company, whilst also allowing you to benefit from having Eurofins as a parent company. Our ambitious growth plans provide ample opportunities for our employees:
- Diverse developmental opportunities within the organization;
- A large client portfolio ensures a lot of diversity in your work.
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.
Eurofins employs approximately 63,000 people worldwide, spread across 950 state-of-the-art laboratories, and is active in 60 countries with a pro-forma turnover of €6,951 million in 2024. Eurofins has strong growth ambitions (CAGR 24%) with, in addition to very strong autonomous growth through its own start-ups, a large number of acquisitions every year.
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About the Company
Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing B.V. Is part of the international operating Eurofins Scientific. The organization is the largest Dutch contract laboratory for the pharmaceutical industry. We specialize in analytical tests for (bio) pharmaceutical raw materials, intermediates and (bio) pharmaceutical products. We perform a very diverse range of analyses for a large number of national and international clients within the (bio) pharmaceutical industry.