Internship / Working Student Opportunity – Controlling Support (20–30 Hours per Week)

Location: Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, pl Department: Finance Employment Type: {'id': 'permanent', 'label': 'Full-time'}

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Join the Eurofins National Service Center (NSC) and gain hands-on experience in a Controlling environment within a global organization. This opportunity is ideal for students and early-career professionals looking to develop practical experience in financial analysis, budgeting, reporting, and business performance monitoring.

This is a paid internship with a minimum commitment of 20–30 hours per week, initially offered for 3 months with the possibility of extension.

Your Responsibilities

Support budgeting, forecasting, and planning activities.

Assist with financial analysis and monitoring of costs and business performance.

Prepare, update, and maintain controlling reports and management dashboards.

Support monthly closing and reporting activities.

Analyse financial data and help identify variances and trends.

Assist in monitoring budget deviations and ensuring data accuracy.

Coordinate with internal stakeholders to gather, validate, and reconcile financial information.

Support purchase-related processes and tracking of expenditures.

Contribute to process improvement initiatives and ad hoc controlling tasks.

Qualifications

What We Are Looking For

Basic knowledge of accounting and finance principles.

Very good knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Fluent Polish is a must.

English language skills at minimum B2 level.

Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and effectively prioritize workload.

Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Good organizational and communication skills.

Proactive attitude and willingness to learn.

Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within an international team.

What We Offer

Paid internship in a global organization.

Minimum 20–30 working hours per week with flexibility around academic commitments.

Practical experience in controlling, financial analysis, budgeting, and reporting.

Professional onboarding, training, and continuous support from experienced specialists.

Exposure to international business operations and finance processes.

A great opportunity to build a strong foundation for a future career in Finance and Controlling.

Duration: 3 months with the possibility of extension.

Additional Information

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 57 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.