Team Leader: Client Accounting 80 - 100%

19 September 2026
80 – 100%
Permanent position
Winterthur

Job summary

Join the Social Services Winterthur team as a leader in financial support. This role offers meaningful work in a dynamic environment.

Tasks

Lead the client accounting team, fostering effective collaboration.
Ensure accurate client accounting and quality assurance of financial reports.
Manage collections and resource planning for social assistance programs.

Skills

Commercial training with further education in accounting required.
Strong analytical skills and process understanding needed.
Excellent communication and teamwork abilities essential.

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About the job

In this versatile leadership role, you will take responsibility from 1 January 2027 or by arrangement for a central area of the commercial support of the Social Services Winterthur. Together with your team, you ensure correctly maintained client accounting and reliable financial processes for the main departments of social assistance and asylum social assistance. In doing so, you continuously drive quality and further development and actively shape collaboration with internal and external interfaces.

Your tasks

Leading the client accounting team and promoting reliable and effective collaboration
Ensuring correctly maintained client accounting including quality assurance of central billing as well as monthly and annual financial statements in coordination with Controlling & Finance and the city accounting department
Responsibility for the collection of repayments and refunds as well as ensuring onward billing for asylum social assistance
Planning and managing workflows and resources as well as responsibility for qualified support
Further development of processes and quality standards as well as representing client accounting in cross-cutting issues and projects

Your profile

Commercial basic training as well as further training in accounting
Several years of professional experience in finance and accounting and initial leadership experience, preferably in the social assistance or asylum social assistance environment
Strong analytical and interconnected thinking as well as a good understanding of processes and contexts
Enjoy questioning the status quo, developing solutions and implementing changes together with others
Clear and appreciative communication, assertiveness, teamwork and high service orientation

What we offer

Exciting, meaningful and responsible leadership role in a versatile environment
Scope for design and responsibility in the further development of your own specialist area
Wide range of internal training courses for personal and professional development
Central workplace in the heart of Winterthur
An open, motivated and committed team

Contact

Your questions about the position will be gladly answered by Nadine Peverelli, Head of Department, +41 52 267 20 12.
Learn more? https://stadt.winterthur.ch/sozialedienste

We look forward to receiving your online application.