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

In all countries where the Eurofins Group has a significant presence, it has chosen to consolidate a specific set of country-level support services into a National Service Centre (NSC) to enhance efficiency and ensure adequate compliance and control levels. Within this framework, the increasing complexity of tax regulations and reporting requirements has made the management of direct and indirect tax affairs a key priority.

The primary purpose of this position is to ensure that all relevant tax compliance and reporting tasks are handled in a timely manner while also performing tax management and optimization advisory tasks at both the local and international levels. Ultimately, this role aims to efficiently support and enhance the business.

The Tax Manager reports to the National Finance Director and has a dotted-line reporting relationship with the Group Head of Taxes.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Tax Compliance: Ensure that all mandatory local tax filings are completed accurately and on time. This includes corporate income taxes, VAT and other indirect taxes, withholding taxes, and any other applicable local taxes, as well as the regular monitoring and updating of the tax unity status.Specific Reporting Duties: Ensure timely and accurate compliance with mandatory reporting obligations, including but not limited to the Country-by-Country Report and related local notifications, DAC-6 notifications, and Pillar II-related returns, forms, and notifications (e.g., for the purposes of Global Minimum Tax or US CAMT), as applicable.Tax Accounting: Oversee the calculation of local tax accruals and deferred tax asset and liability positions. This includes ensuring the accurate reporting of tax accounting data to the Group (via FL06 and FLGL forms) to reflect the correct ETR evolution. Responsibilities also include analyzing tax accounting processes, extracting data, and generating tax reports.Tax Risk Management: Establish a comprehensive control framework to document, report, and mitigate tax risks in alignment with Group guidelines (KGD). This includes actively monitoring new legislation to anticipate areas of exposure and ensuring the company responds efficiently and in a timely manner.General Advisory and Tax Strategies: Provide general tax advisory support to local operations and the Group as required, including proactively proposing optimization strategies in various areas, such as R&D tax credits, corporate reorganizations, corporate and VAT tax unity structuring, M&A support, financing structures, monitoring interest deductibility limitations, applying international tax treaties, utilizing special vehicles, and requesting tax rulings.Transfer Pricing: Ensure the annual update of domestic transfer pricing documentation (e.g., Local Files) to comply with domestic legislation and align with Group Master Policy, thereby avoiding non-compliance penalties.Global Minimum Tax / US CAMT: Maintain familiarity with Pillar II implications, particularly in relation to Global Minimum Tax and US CAMT calculations.Tax Audits & Claims: Provide oversight and specific support in response to requests from tax authorities, including tax audits, administrative claims, and, if necessary, court proceedings.Participation in Working Groups: Actively participate in working groups on various tax topics, organized centrally for members of the international tax community.

 

Qualifications

Education:

Master’s degree in Law or Economics.A specialized Master’s degree in Tax Law is a plus.

Professional Experience:

5 to 7 years of relevant experience in the tax department of a Big Four or comparable law firm and/or in the industry sector with a strong focus on corporate tax matters.Experience in transfer pricing is a plus.Experience in EU Global Minimum Tax or US CAMT is also a plus.

Personal Skills:

Meticulous attention to detail; accurate, diligent, and highly reliable.High energy, drive, and passion for success.Structured and concise, with strong organizational skills and a high degree of autonomy.Confident and assertive personality, capable of challenging the status quo.Pragmatic, proactive, flexible, and adaptable.Strong communication skills.Effective team management, focusing on both technical and interpersonal development of team members.

Technical Skills:

Strong analytical abilities, with the capacity to quickly grasp complex structures and processes.Excellent technical knowledge across the key responsibilities listed above.Ability to navigate between detailed analysis and maintaining a broader strategic perspective.Strategic mindset: capable of setting a vision and goals for the team, creating an action plan, and ensuring effective implementation.Strong stakeholder management skills: ability to understand the complexities of a large multinational group with multiple internal stakeholders and successfully operate within this environment.

Language Skills:

Fluency in both written and spoken English and the local language is required.Proficiency in additional languages, particularly French, is an asset.

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! 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 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 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 950 laboratories in 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 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.