Internship – IT Finance Controlling & Digitalisation

Eurofins 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 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 its companies around the world.

Are you passionate about finance, digitalisation, and looking to gain hands-on experience in a global IT Controlling environment? Join our dynamic and international Group IT Finance Controlling team, where you will contribute to financial planning, digital transformation, and tool optimisation across a growing network of companies. 

As an IT Finance Controlling & Digitalisation Intern, you will work at the intersection of finance and technology, supporting both the Group IT Finance Controlling team in Brussels and collaborating with the IT Development team. You will contribute to the budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and digitalisation of financial processes, to increase accuracy, efficiency, and transparency across the network.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Assist in the annual budget cycle, forecasts, and mid-term planning for IT expenses.

• Support monthly reporting by generating financial statements, updating management reports, and tracking KPIs. 

• Help with variance analysis on budget deviations. 

• Collaborate on financial digitalisation initiatives by testing new tools and improving existing systems. 

• Conduct pilot testing and troubleshooting for financial tools and dashboards. 

• Guide end-users through new tools and updates, and collect feedback for future improvements. 

• Assist in purchase order management and approval processes. 

• Implement structural changes of master data (including the creation and review of Business Units, and Business Unit Clusters) and oversee the status throughout. 

Duration: 6 months. 

Starting date: July/August/September (flexible). 

This internship is compensated. An internship agreement with your university is required. 

Education: Currently pursuing a degree in engineering, finance, accounting, business administration, or related field. End-of-studies internship preferred. 

Technical Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, formulas). Experience with VBA programming and knowledge of Coupa is a plus. Strong interest in IT systems and digital tools. 

Languages: Fluent in English (written and spoken). 

Personal Skills: Analytical mindset with a structured and detail-oriented approach. Strong communication and problem-solving abilities. Comfortable working in a multicultural, cross-functional environment. 

We support your development! Do you feel like 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!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company 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 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

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.