General Accountant

Job Description 

Are you a detail-driven accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment? We’re looking for a General Accountant to join our team and play a key role in supporting client billing, financial reporting, and audit readiness.

Reporting to the Director, Finance, this role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across departments, managing the full accounting cycle, and ensuring accuracy in client invoicing and reporting.

What You’ll Do

As a General Accountant, you’ll be at the heart of our financial operations:

• Manage contract billing vs. schedule and support invoicing (~100 invoices/month)
• Prepare client invoices, credit notes, and detailed reporting
• Generate quarterly passthrough invoices
• Ensure all invoices include accurate PO and contract references
• Maintain and update billing and project reporting daily
• Review project setups in LIMS/Elims (milestones, values, currencies)
• Lead collections activities — AR statements, follow-ups, escalations
• Collaborate with shared services to ensure accurate payment application
• Support month-end activities, including accruals and journal entries
• Assist with audit coordination to ensure timely, smooth completion
• Provide backup support for AP functions

What You Bring

• Diploma or Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3+ years of accounting or financial analysis experience
• Experience with full accounting cycle and contract review
• Strong Excel skills and data management capabilities
• Excellent critical thinking, organization, and time management
• A collaborative mindset with a customer-service focus
• Clear and professional communication skills

Nice to have:

• CPA enrollment
• MS Dynamics Great Plains experience
• Exposure to IFRS and audit support

Why Join Us?

• Work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment
• Contribute to meaningful financial operations that drive business success
• Gain exposure to audits, contract accounting, and reporting
• Be part of a supportive, team-oriented culture

If you’re a proactive accounting professional looking to grow your career and make an impact—we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

The starting annual base compensation for this position is $70,000 CAD. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package plus benefits, will be determined by a number of factors which include but are not limited to the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Disclaimer: Salary information posted on sites other than the official careers page does not reflect the organization’s compensation and may represent estimated ranges provided by third-party job boards. The organization offers competitive wages and a comprehensive total rewards package, which will be discussed during the interview process.

At Eurofins CDMO Alphora, we leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technology to support our recruitment process, including preliminary screening of applications and resumes. All hiring decisions are made by human reviewers.

This posting is for a current vacancy and the successful candidate will start as soon as possible.

WHO ARE WE?

Eurofins CDMO Alphora Inc. provides a fully integrated suite of services to support drug substance and drug product development from the IND enabling development stage, through to phase II & III supply, and commercial validation and manufacturing for niche APIs.  In addition to a continuing flow of interesting and challenging projects for global pharmaceutical and biotech companies, Eurofins CDMO Alphora Inc. is committed to growing its state-of-the-art organization, with continued investments in its people, modern facilities, equipment, and instrumentation.

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 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 believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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..

Additional information

At Eurofins we offer excellent full-time benefits including health & dental coverage, life and disability insurance, RRSP with 3% company match, paid holidays, paid time off.

Accommodation: Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request via the website at www.eurofins.ca.