As a General Ledger and Reporting Accountant, your primary focus is to execute General Ledger processes for Eurofins Legal Entities (ELEs) in compliance with internal procedures and documentation standards. You support National Service Center (NSC) and Business teams by providing accounting and process-related input, contributing to accurate financial reporting and operational continuity. Your role includes participating in process improvement initiatives, supporting transition activities, and maintaining strong knowledge of accounting operations. This role plays an active part in the month-end close process, audit support, and financial data analysis. This position reports to the Team Leader.

Accounting operations in General Ledger Area

• Oversee and execute core General Ledger activities, ensuring a high level of quality, accuracy, and process efficiency across all tasks.
• Handle end-to-end Fixed Assets processes, including coordination with the business and NSC on assets under construction, reclassifying non-capitalisable items, performing asset additions and disposals, running depreciation, and resolving complex or ad hoc cases in line with accounting standards.
• Prepare and process journal entries, including standard Shared Services Centres (SSC) entries, ad hoc and complex postings, entries provided by NSC/business, and resolve AX processing errors to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Prepare and review journal entries, ensuring accuracy, compliance with internal controls, and alignment with accounting standards.
• Perform Intercompany reconciliation by identifying discrepancies, requesting missing documentation, responding to standard queries, and independently analysing and resolving differences to ensure accurate financial alignment.
• Perform end-to-end accounting activities for assigned legal entities, including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Intercompany, and Treasury, with a focus on ensuring accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Corporate reporting packaging and Cognos reporting

• Manage the monthly corporate reporting package, including uploading data to Cognos, reconciling recurring differences, completing required forms (e.g., Balance Sheet, P&L, FA table, Aging), and investigating discrepancies to ensure accurate and timely reporting.

Internal controls and Process governance

• Ensure accuracy and data integrity in the end-to-end financial reporting process by maintaining full compliance with Internal Control System (ICS) requirements.
• Manage and update internal documentation, including Desktop Procedures and ICS manuals, to reflect current processes and support audit readiness.

Account reconciliation and Balance Sheet Review

• Prepare and review Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations (BSAR), ensuring transparency and accuracy in account overviews, documenting balances, and escalating unresolved items when necessary.
• Perform subledger reconciliations for AP, AR, and Fixed Assets by identifying and resolving standard differences, investigating complex cases independently.
• Process monthly Balance Sheet and P&L fluctuation analysis, identifying key variances and providing explanations to support financial transparency and decision-making.
• Ensure completeness and compliance in reconciliation documentation and follow-up processes, supporting audit readiness and financial integrity.

VAT, TAX & External reporting and Audit support

• Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual tax reporting processes.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of VAT returns, reviewing all supporting documentation and calculations
• Support annual audits and tax return processes by collaborating with external auditors and tax authorities to ensure compliance and timely delivery of required documentation.
• Prepare and provide standard audit data, including downloading reports from AX, completing standard templates, and responding to routine auditor and tax-related requests.
• Support internal and external audit activities by providing required documentation and ensuring adherence to regulatory and internal control requirements.

Knowledge management and transition support

• Maintain up-to-date process knowledge by tracking exceptions or changes, updating process catalogues, and proactively proposing improvements in collaboration with relevant departments.
• Provide process-related support to NSC and business partners by communicating requirements and staying informed about country- or entity-specific procedures, particularly in back-up areas.
• Support transition activities by participating in knowledge transfer and checkpoint meetings, preparing GL process overviews for business stakeholders, and identifying and resolving issues during transitions to ensure smooth handovers.

Stakeholder management

• Contribute to client relationship management by supporting communication, helping identify needs, and ensuring timely and professional responses during issue resolution.
• Adapt communication style to suit the context, ensuring clarity and effectiveness in both written and verbal interactions, including meetings and calls.
• Build trust and long-term partnerships with key stakeholders (e.g., Financial and Business Controllers), addressing escalations constructively and fostering collaboration through consistent, solution-oriented engagement.

Process improvement

• Actively identify and implement improvement opportunities within daily operations, driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team performance and process efficiency.
• Participate in process optimisation projects, taking ownership of accepted changes and supporting their execution.
• Support a culture of improvement by sharing expertise, collaborating on problem-solving, and helping team members apply effective solutions in daily operations.

Team support

• Support the team by assisting in onboarding activities, sharing process knowledge, and providing input on accounting and cross-process (PTP, OTC, RTR) matters to promote effective collaboration and adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders by responding to queries from Operating Companies, supporting ELEs and HQ on ad-hoc tasks, and contributing to consistent, high-quality service delivery.

Scope of responsibilities may be extended depending on the supported business area, process changes, organizational needs, or at the discretion of the Team Leader. This includes close collaboration with cross-functional teams such as Tax, Operations, and Business to ensure alignment on accounting treatments and effective support during month-end and year-end closing activities.

Education:

• Higher education degree (finance or related).
• Additional training or certification is a plus.

Professional experience:

• Experience in RtR accounting – min. 2 years, 2.5 years preferred,
• Previous experience in in SSC/BPO environment will be an additional asset.

Personal skills:

• Strong, clear, and professional communication skills, tailored to audience needs.
• Independently handling complex tasks with a strong sense of accountability, proactively identifying potential risks, and responding effectively to challenges within clearly defined areas of responsibility, while benefiting from the guidance of a senior specialist.
• Customer-focused, tracking progress and actively supporting issue resolution—even under high-pressure conditions.
• Working collaboratively across teams and demonstrating adaptability, fostering strong professional relationships and supporting evolving priorities, processes, and technologies with agility and resilience.
• Strong commitment to continuous learning and structured execution, staying up to date with industry best practices and accounting standards, while effectively managing multiple priorities and deadlines with precision and a focus on quality.
• Proactively identifying risks and quality issues, supporting process stability and consistency in dynamic environments.
• Delivering high-quality service by resolving issues independently and sharing knowledge to support others in similar situations.

Technical skills:

• Strong knowledge of accounting processes including interactions and dependencies across PtP, OtC, and RtR scopes.
• Ability to independently prepare and validates complex journal entries, with full awareness of their financial impact.
• Leading and executing intercompany (ICO) reconciliations for highly complex entities, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Delivering reporting for complex or non-stabilised entities, resolving non-standard issues with supervision.
• Proficiency in financial consolidation and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos), supporting accurate and efficient financial close processes through effective use of technology.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and/or local GAAP, ensuring consistent and accurate application of accounting standards in operational and reporting activities.
• Reviewing and interpreting financial data in templates with accuracy, recognising implications for balance sheet and income statement reporting.
• Supporting internal and external audit activities, ensuring full compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements.
• Proficiency in ERP systems, understanding system controls and supports identification of automation opportunities to improve accounting workflows and data accuracy.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, using pivot tables, advanced formulas, and data analysis tools to support reporting and ensure accurate data validation.
• Participating in process improvement initiatives by identifying inefficiencies, contributing to documentation, and supporting implementation of enhanced workflows to improve accuracy and reduce cycle times.

Language skills:

• English on B2 level, additional languages are a plus.

What We Offer:

• Full-time contract
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work model (after training)
• Comprehensive onboarding and internal training (first 2 months on-site)
• Attractive benefits:
  • Private medical care
  • Meal vouchers (€10.20/day)
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Birthday day off
  • Nomad Program
  • Referral Program
• Social events: Winter & Summer parties, team building, volunteering activities
• Career development opportunities
• A chance to shape the future of a growing international SSC

Be Part of the Transformation

If you're excited by the idea of building something new, driving change, and growing with a purpose-driven company, Eurofins Business Services Portugal is the place for you.

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 60 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 6.95 billion revenues in FY 2024, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.