Business Controller - Purchasing

Company Description

Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 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 its companies around the world.

Job Description

The Purchasing Controller will play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting and cost optimisation by reconciling calculated savings with actual accounts, ensuring transparency, savings validation, and performance monitoring.

This position requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate across departments to validate and report financial performance.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Analysis & Reporting:

• Prepare detailed reports on savings performance for management review.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing processes.

Savings Validation & Financial Impact Tracking:

• Validate procurement savings and ensure methodological consistency.
• Translate procurement savings into P&L impacts; reconcile reported savings with financial actuals.
• Investigate discrepancies between forecasted and realised savings, providing clear explanations and corrective actions.
• Work closely with procurement, operations, and finance teams to validate savings assumptions and methodologies.
• Ensure alignment between project savings calculations and accounting entries

Spend Analytics & Cost Intelligence

• Analyse organisation-wide spend data.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities and monitor price trends for key spend categories.
• Support Purchasing and Operations with data-driven insights.

Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities to streamline reconciliation processes and improve accuracy.
• Develop and maintain documentation of reconciliation procedures and controls.
• Active support on the Purchasing Reporting digitalisation journey.

Qualifications

• Master degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis, or accounting.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and managerial financial reporting.
• Advanced Excel Skills; experience with ERP systems and Procurement systems (i.e. COUPA, Synertrade, Ivalua) is a plus.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel like 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 believes 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.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.