Senior Accountant Otc (Accounts Receivable)

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

Role Purpose:

• Execution of operational activities (steps of accounting processes in Accounts Receivable area) for Eurofins Legal Entities in designated scope
• Performing designated activities in compliance with relevant process documentation.
• Maintaining necessary process & accounting knowledge also to strengthen back-up ability of the team
• Identification and implementation of potential improvements applicable to executed activities/processes
• Being a partner to NSC and Business in accounting and process areas
• Active participation in Transition Projects
• Support Interns, Junior Accountants and Accountants in their daily job.
• Support team in more complex tasks and issues.

Role Responsibilities:

Customer Master Data

Creation of new customer (via csv import or manually)

Modification of existing customers (VAT group correction, Parent/child payer)

Support for less experienced co-workers

Resolving issues with missing customers

Customer invoicing and intercompany accounting

Posting invoices sent via interfaces

Posting invoices imported via sales converter

Posting manual ICO recharge invoices (on request and monthly orders)

MJE booking: corrections, write offs, postings on FC/GL/AP request

Approving journals created by other team members

Sending dunning letters to the customers

Support for less experienced co-workers

Invoice booking and sales reconciliation

Daily posting sales converters and interface invoices

Sales reconciliation done twice a month

Support for less experienced co-workers

Resolving issues with missing invoices

Bank statement booking and cash allocation

Daily Bank Statements import, posting and reconciliation

Collecting money by direct debit process

Preparing unallocated cash reports

Analyzing unallocated cash with FCs

Support for less experienced co-workers

Month-end activities:

Ensuring all bank statements have been posted in EOM

Monthly bank reconciliation

Sales reconciliation

Accruals posting

Bad debt calculation

Support for less experienced co-workers

Knowledge maintenance:

Ensuring exceptions/changes to the standard process are highlighted to the superior and upon confirmation, adequately reflected in process documentation

Updating process catalogues and propose adequate changes in cooperation with proper company departments,

Informing and explaining to partners (NSC/ Business) process requirements,

Stay up to date with designated processes/activities/country or legal entity specifics for which acts as a back-up

Transition involvement:

Participation in knowledge transfer meetings/checkpoints meetings together with Team Leader,

Preparing AR process overview for the business,

Highlighting and resolving issues encountered during transition.

Team support:

New joiners training,

Point of contact for less experienced employees in complex process and accounting issues,

Occasionally backup for Team Leader.

Improvement process:

Continuously seek improvement opportunities for executed activities & highlight potential improvements,

Takes part in process improvement projects and/or directly implements accepted improvements

Participates in process improvement identification initiatives on team & company level,

Supports improvement culture helps less experienced employees with solution creation.

creation.

Stakeholder management:

Identifies client’s needs & answers clients’ requests in direct (written) communication

Proactively drives communication with client till final resolution

Adapts communication according to situation & the receiver

Is able to build & maintain professional relation with a client (typically Financial or Business Controllers) by adjusting to the situation and conditions,

Addresses escalations in an effective way,

Takes part in business meetings & phone calls

Other tasks:

Correctly report working time used & activities executed in company’s work reporting system

Taking part in UAT sessions and sanity checks before new PROD application release

Participating in monthly operational calls if needed

Qualifications

What are we expecting:

• Advanced accounting knowledge
• Experience in OtC accounting in SSC/BPO environment is desired
• Advanced knowledge OtC process steps
• Awareness of PtP, RtR, and OtC dependencies
• Communication skills (ability to lead relationships with stakeholders in a variety of areas)
• English B/C – spoken & written
• MS Office knowledge
• Knowledge of Excel at the advanced level
• Finance-related education
• Additional training and certification will be an asset.

What we offer:

• Full-time contract
• Flexible working hours (only available after the training period)
• Hybrid work model (only available after the training period)
• Training period for the first two months (100% from office)
• Attractive package of benefits: private medical care, Meal Vouchers (10,20 Euro/daily), annual bonus scheme, Birthday Off.
• Social Events (like Winter Party, Summer Party, Team Building, etc.)
• Referral Program 
• Possibility to develop your career internally
• 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!  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.

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 count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 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.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.