Purchasing Controller

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 dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

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Find out more on our Careers page: 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 65000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1000 independent companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time