Regional Accounting Manager - Eurofins Built Environment Testing East

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

The Regional Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily accounting operations within the Built Environment East region. This role collaborates closely with the national AR/AP teams to ensure the accuracy, compliance, and integrity of accounting records, processes, and reporting for all regional business units. The Regional Accounting Manager will provide guidance, training, and support to ensure the efficient execution of accounting functions, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and internal controls.

The role involves tracking key performance indicators, identifying opportunities for process improvements, and analyzing data to improve efficiency.

The Regional Accounting Manager can work from any of the Eurofins Built Environment Testing labs on the East Coast (Marlton, NJ; Chantilly, VA; Cary, NC; Fort Mill, SC; Atlanta, GA; Orlando, FL or Fort Lauderdale, FL).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Accounts Payable

• Vendor management: Build relationships with key vendors, identify new/backup vendors, onboard new vendors, communicate best practice procurement requirements.
• Oversee creation and updates of routine and blanket purchase orders using a BSM system for BU, ensure proper GL coding
• Ensure purchases are made within allocated budget
• Optimize regional consumable spend through financial analysis, vendor consolidation, and contract negotiation.
• Train new staff on the use of Business Spend Management (BSM) software.
• Act as first point of escalation to resolve issues related to requisitions, vendor invoice payments
• Review monthly procurement reports and oversee timely resolution of pending issues

Accounts Receivable

• Ensures SOPs are created, training complete for pricing and invoicing procedures of special projects
• Act as point of escalation for clients related to online enrollment, password, sign-on issues and other online related questions
• Support NSC with asks from staff accountants and financial audits
• Coordinate monthly AR report review; prioritize and track action items through resolution
• Liaise with AR team and clients to resolve unapplied cash, invoice discrepancies, and aging
• Identify and propose process improvements and efficiency gains across BSM, LIMs, Payment, and communication systems

Other

• Coordinate regional benchmarking projects and reports
• Track Accounting KPIs for each Business Unit
• Develop training resources and accounting best practice standards
• Provide input for annual budget planning

Qualifications

Education/Experience (BMQ):

• BS/BA in Accounting, Finance or Business field
• Customer service experience 2 years

Additional preferences:

• MBA is a plus
• Experience considered in lieu of degree
• Experience working in a laboratory setting

Ability and/or Skills (BMQ):

• Clear and professional communication skills with customers and co-workers, both verbally and written
• Computer literate (Office suite, Adobe PDF, BSM)
• Prioritization and on-time execution of tasks
• The ability to work with integrity and respect confidentiality
• The ability to independently apply strong analytical, problem-solving and decision making-skills
• Strong numeracy skills
• Strong interpersonal skills (emotional intelligence)
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively within a team.
• Embraces continuous learning and personal development

Additional preferences:

• Client facing customer service; internal customer service

Additional Information

Requirements:

• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
• Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak in English

Full-time position Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. Candidates living within a commutable distance of any Eurofins Built Environment Testing Division labs are encouraged to apply.

Salary range: $75,000 - $85,000/yr.

Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) provides a compensation range for informational purposes, the actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill set, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

To learn more about Eurofins, please explore our website www.eurofinsus.com.

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 is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins USA Environment Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.