Finance and IT Integration Specialist with Project Management

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.

We're looking for a Finance and IT Integration Specialist with Project Management whose primary focus will be to lead strategic finance projects and programmes in Switzerland, fostering harmonisation within the region and driving change management initiatives from decision-making through to completion. You'll champion continuous improvement by employing process analysis, management, and optimisation techniques aligned with Management Principles.

What will you be responsible for?

• Overseeing the integration of financial and IT systems post-merger integration;
• Leading financial project management endeavors in Switzerland;
• Taking charge of IT projects, coordinating between end-users, project sponsors, and finance IT to ensure effective collaboration and achievement of project objectives;
• Conducting comprehensive business analysis to identify IT solutions for finance and administration, anticipating stakeholder demands, identifying areas for improvement, and independently implementing new solutions;
• Driving process optimisation and digitisation efforts within financial and administrative functions, streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency;
• Documenting introduced processes, systems, and solutions while conducting training sessions for key users and end-users, particularly on tools like Coupa;
• Evaluating performance post-implementation, ensuring the efficacy of newly introduced systems and processes.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, IT, Business Administration or a related field;
• Proven experience in project management, especially in finance and IT integration;
• Strong understanding of LEAN Management Principles and process optimisation methodologies;
• Prior experience in post-merger integration would be advantageous;
• Languages: Full professional proficiency in German and English are a must. French is a plus.

What can we offer you?

• Permanent employment;
• Flexible working hours;
• A dynamic team with flat hierarchies and opportunities for active participation;
• Personal and professional development opportunities, as well as exclusive benefits for Eurofins employees;
• Working from home.

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! The 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/

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 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 ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.5 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.