Company Description
About Eurofins
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 works 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 the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agriscience Contract Research Organization services. Eurofins 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 Organizations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers 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 € 6,515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Job Description
Job Title: Account Receivable - Associate
Reporting To: Director
Work Location: Chennai
Work Timing: 1 pm - 10 PM (Hybrid 3 days from office)
Accounts Receivable Specialist responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Responsible for resolution of all un-applied transactions, include maintaining provision for bad debt records, actual bad debt records, and recovery of bad debt records; maintain accurate records of clients.
- Process and reconcile invoices and payments on a timely basis with the Accounts Receivable module balancing to the general ledger at end-of-month.
- Prepare monthly general ledger entries for sales, and intra/inter-company sales and work in progress within four business days following month-end.
- Provide Business Units aging of their accounts receivable on a weekly basis or as requested by the managers.
- Review documents and post all payments to accounts receivable computerized system and communicate with the client when necessary; review, process, and post receivable invoices for monthly sales/revenue.
- Assist in the development of accounts receivable procedures; recommend more accurate or efficient accounts receivable procedures.
- Maintain a list of past due invoices, updated on an ongoing basis in order to answer questions about the status of past due accounts.
- Maintain open communication with all employees and managers in a manner, which encourages communication of information.
- Work with outside auditors in a professional manner
- Maintain a safe, clean, and organized workspace.
- Ensure that confidentiality regarding employees, clients, or vendors is not disclosed to anyone except as authorized by corporate officials.
- Follow all Eurofins Scientific, Inc.’s guidelines and procedures.
- Maintain a perpetual state of readiness and willingness to respond to the queries and needs of clients, staff, and coworkers.
- Promote the company image through the exercising of sound and ethical business practices as related to the public and its customers.
The ideal candidate would possess:
- Strong computer, scientific, and organizational skills
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.
- Ability to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, keep accurate records, follow instructions, and comply with company policies.
- Experience with Accounts Receivable accounting on a computerized system (Great Plains preferred) in a multi-state corporate setting, familiarity with sales and use tax, word processing, spreadsheets, office equipment, and general office administration.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Responsive problem solver and action-oriented
- Ability to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, keep accurate records, follow instructions, and comply with company policies.
- Review and process invoices and payments. Evaluate processes for improvements and recommend changes to manager.
Basic Minimum Qualifications:
- Any Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 1 year related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
Additional Information
- Position is Full-Time and supporting Eurofins legal entities in USA
- Work week – Monday to Friday
- Work timing – 1:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. IST; the company may change the work timing due to any business requirements or for better alignment with US business hours or for any other undisclosed reasons. Candidate must be flexible in that regard.
- Working model – Hybrid (Working from office – Monday to Wednesday; Work from Home – Thursday and Friday); the company may change the model or to switch to complete work from office only model without giving any reasons. Candidate must be flexible in that regard.
- While working from home, candidate is expected to have strong internet broadband connectivity, and must be able to connect to work from a secluded place with nil distractions. Also, must be ready to be on Video calls ‘on need basis’
- Any deviations from the scheduled work timing, working model or work week will need two levels of written approval from the employee’s immediate Manager and from one level above the immediate Manager.
- Work location – Chennai, India; the company may transfer an employee to any place of its business in any part of India or abroad.
