Sole Financial Accountant 40% (with Expansion Potential and Promotion Opportunity to CFO)

About the job

Environment
Our company is engaged, among other things, in the development, production and distribution of high-quality, high-performance LED systems for professional and semi-professional applications. Our solutions are mostly based on modern, proprietary foundations.
As an emerging company, we are looking for a sole financial accountant who will handle our entire accounting, clear pending items in accounting, help to make processes in accounting more efficient and maintain the associated ISO-9001 documentation; furthermore, prepare quarterly and annual financial statements (including VAT, valuations, depreciations, inventory management, consolidations), as well as tax returns for the corporate group (two companies). Additionally, general secretarial tasks with simple correspondence.

Tasks
- Daily bookkeeping (including creditors, debtors, cards/expenses/salaries, cash management)
- Identifying and resolving special accounting cases and pending items
- Preparing interim and year-end financial statements, as well as profit and loss accounts according to new accounting standards (Swiss GAAP FER)
- Managing project cost centres
- Operational controlling
- Inventory management of fixed assets and intangible assets
- Preparations and follow-ups for year-end closings
- Developing and implementing optimisation strategies to increase efficiency
- Maintaining documentation of business processes and workflows
- Preparing tax returns and social security calculations from payroll data
- Collaboration with fiduciary company/auditor and company lawyer
- General secretarial tasks; including incoming/outgoing mail, telephones, filing/archiving, correspondence

Requirements
- Accountant with federal diploma or equivalent qualification, proficient in financial statements
- Experience in small businesses
- Ability and willingness to operate in an ISO-9001 environment and participate in maintaining business processes and their documentation.
- Ability to create and diligently maintain factual dossiers
- Fast, accurate and efficient working style
- Above-average comprehension skills
- The iron will to venture into long-forgotten accounting-industrial new territory in a high-technology company with development and production.
- Technical understanding of terminology in booking text editing is essential

Languages
German and English spoken and written, French desirable.

Please send your complete application in .PDF or .RTF format to:
hr (at) photonexa.com

Note:
Please no offers from unmandated recruitment agencies