Team Leader Finance and Accounting

About the job

Start date:

01.01.2027 or by arrangement

Work location:

Bern

Your opportunity

The Shared Service Center MBA pays the invoices for the entire office, the vocational and baccalaureate schools, as well as for vocational, study and career counselling. Following an internal reorganisation, the team of four to five employees is in motion. You bring structure, reliability and trust to this team and make it a dependable service provider. You lead professionally and personally, further develop processes and have the support of management for clear decisions.

Your tasks

• You lead the FRW 2 team professionally and personally. This includes deployment planning, target agreements, employee discussions and skills development. You ensure that roles, responsibilities and processes are consistently adhered to.
• You share responsibility for the operation of the SSC MBA, i.e. for the timely and correct payment of supplier invoices (creditors) as well as for credit management, assets and the qualification procedure (QV). You resolve complex problem cases yourself.
• You ensure quality, compliance with internal control systems (ICS) and adherence to legal requirements and recommendations of the financial control and implement these.
• You support and train employees with decentralised financial tasks in the office and schools.
• You further develop processes and tools, promote digitalisation, reporting and monitoring, and expand polyvalence within the team.
• You lead projects within your area of responsibility.
• You work in the MBA F&C management team as well as in specialist groups and coordinate professionally with the SSC AZD.

Your profile

• Professional basic training EFZ with further training at certificate level (e.g. accounting clerk) or professional certificate, HF or equivalent (e.g. specialist in finance and accounting)
• Several years of experience in a comparable role and sound expertise in financial accounting including final accounts preparation
• Proven leadership experience in a team
• Experience with change processes and aligning a team towards common goals
• Very good SAP and Excel skills
• French B1/B2

We offer you

• A demanding leadership role with genuine scope for design
• Support from the department management and leadership team
• The employment conditions of the Canton of Bern, with flexible working time models and training opportunities

Contact

Curious? Your contact for questions: Sibylle Lisibach, HR Consulting, telephone +41 31 633 41 46, personal.mba@be.ch

The Secondary and Vocational Education Office of the Directorate of Education and Culture is the central service centre for all training partners at secondary level II, in higher vocational education, continuing education and vocational, study and career counselling. It promotes the development of offerings and quality within the framework of legislation and is responsible for the management and monitoring of financial resources and quality indicators at the secondary level II schools.

The cross-sectional service Finance and Controlling (F&C) answers technical, administrative and advanced questions relating to finance and accounting. In addition to processing invoices from and to the MBA, it is responsible for the annual financial statements and financial planning of the office and takes care of reporting on financial and statistical topics related to the office.