Property Accountant (80–100 %)

About the job

Wohnbaugenossenschaften Zürich is the regional association of non-profit housing developers in the Zurich economic area. Together with our approximately 300 members with around 75,000 apartments, we are committed to long-term affordable housing and comprehensive sustainability.

With Netz Genossenschaften, we offer property management and accounting services on a mandate basis for our members. Our clients include more than a dozen housing cooperatives and foundations in the greater Zurich area, which together offer more than 1,500 affordable apartments.

We are steadily growing and are therefore looking to strengthen our young, motivated, and well-coordinated team immediately or by arrangement with a committed individual as

Property Accountant (80–100 %)

You share our cooperative values, gladly take on responsibility, and want to contribute with us to the success and high quality of the accounting for our mandates.

Your tasks:

• You manage the property accounting including bank and account reconciliations.
• You prepare the billing, post rental income, and manage dunning processes.
• You prepare heating and ancillary cost statements.
• You manage cooperative capital such as share capital and deposit accounts.
• You handle payroll accounting for caretaking services and board compensation.
• You assist with quarterly and annual financial statements and prepare audit documents.
• You handle enquiries from tenants, owners, and authorities.
• You support the mandate accountants and further develop our financial processes.

Your profile:

• Further training in accounting (e.g. clerk or federal certificate)
• Several years of professional experience in accounting, ideally in property accounting
• Experience with ancillary cost statements
• An independent, structured, and careful working style
• A service-oriented attitude and enjoyment in contact with internal and external contacts
• Very good German skills, digital affinity, and good MS Office skills

Advantageous but not required:

• Experience with Abacus
• Knowledge of payroll accounting and social security

What we offer:

• A varied role with scope for creativity
• A modern, digital working environment
• Annual working hours and home office by arrangement within operational possibilities
• Five weeks’ holiday, six weeks from the age of 50
• 13 monthly salaries
• Zurich city pension fund; we cover 60% of contributions
• 16 weeks maternity leave and 4 weeks parental leave, each fully paid
• Support for your further training

Curious? Then we look forward to receiving your complete application documents as a PDF file by email by 14 December 2026. Further information can be found on our homepage: www.wbg-zh.ch/verband-page/jobs/. For questions, Katerina Manou, Deputy Head of Finance at Netz Genossenschaften, will be happy to assist you.