Department Head HR Services 80% (m/f/d)

About the job

Make a difference! Living inclusion, creating opportunities, discovering resources, this is what the Altra Foundation has stood for for 60 years. With over 680 employees, diverse work and living offers, and the goal of concretely enabling participation in everyday life.
Due to the internal advancement of the previous post holder, we are looking for a committed, numerically strong and digitally savvy personality from 1 January 2027 or by arrangement as

Department Head HR Services 80% (m/f/d)

Your tasks

In this central role, you lead a team of five specialists and, together with your team, ensure reliable and efficient HR services for the entire Altra.
Your main focuses are:

• Personnel and professional leadership of five specialists
• Overall responsibility for payroll accounting including year-end tasks and social insurance closures
• Responsibility for the entire HR administration from entry to exit
• Ensuring and further developing time recording for the workforce
• Conducting salary classifications for all personnel entries
• Creation and preparation of HR key figures as well as PS controlling
• Responsibility for client administration and billing of client services
• Responsibility for central key management
• Supporting the managing director with administrative and organisational tasks
• Taking minutes of the weekly management meetings as well as the foundation board meetings
• Participation in the digitalisation and further development of HR processes and systems
• Close collaboration with the various departments and internal stakeholders of Altra

Your profile

You enjoy working with numbers, data and systems and keep an overview even with diverse tasks. At the same time, you lead your team appreciatively and support it with your know-how in day-to-day operations.
For this role, we wish for:

• Commercial basic training with further education in finance and accounting, HR or social insurance area
• Solid and several years of experience in payroll accounting
• Very good knowledge of Swiss social insurances and labour law
• Experience in HR administration and with HR processes
• Leadership experience and enjoyment in accompanying and developing specialised staff
• Strong affinity for numbers as well as a very careful and structured way of working
• High digital affinity and enthusiasm for the further development and digitalisation of processes
• Very good user knowledge in HR systems and MS Office, knowledge of Abacus is an advantage
• Independent, solution-oriented and reliable working style
• Enjoyment of a versatile hub function with different internal stakeholders

Our offer

• With us, you can combine your social attitude with your professional working style
• A meaningful job with exceptional scope for action and design
• We value comprehensive induction as well as attractive internal and external training opportunities
• An open company culture that allows opposing opinions, encourages thinking along and supports solution-oriented action
• Fair and attractive salary and social benefits are a matter of course for us

Do you have questions?
Tatiana Skakauskis
Head of Administration Department
Tel. +41 52 632 17 05

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