Kanton Zürich
Zürich
Accounts Secretary 60%
- 30 October 2026
- 60%
- Zürich
About the job
Accounts Secretary 60%The Vocational School for Retail and Pharmacy Zurich (BSDPZ) is a cantonal vocational school with around 1,900 learners and students as well as around 100 teachers and lecturers in vocational education and tertiary education. We consistently develop our school further – with the aim of strengthening, enabling, and effectively preparing learners and students for a complex professional and life world.
Due to a retirement, we are looking for a personality as of 1 February 2027 or by arrangement for the position of
Accounts Secretary (60%)
Your tasks
- In this versatile role, you are responsible for the administrative management of accounting and support the school management with reliable financial foundations. Your tasks include in particular:
- Processing creditors including formal and arithmetic checks as well as correct posting in cost and performance accounting
- Managing debtor accounting including invoicing, dunning, cancellations and credit notes
- Invoicing extraordinary services based on reports and contracts
- Billing of cantonal contributions and school fees
- Carrying out cash closings as well as the annual financial statement
- Assisting with budgeting, budget control and financial annual planning
- Preparing the monthly financial reporting for the rector with target-actual comparisons, variance analyses and relevant financial key figures
- Contact person for accounting questions towards internal and cantonal authorities
- Implementation and documentation of ICS processes as well as reporting to the responsible cantonal authorities
- Managing the inventory
- Administrative responsibility for room permits including billing
- Managing and monitoring the contract list as well as timely initiation of contract reviews and renegotiations
Your profile
- Completed commercial basic training (commercial clerk EFZ) or equivalent qualification
- Further training in finance and accounting, for example as an accounting clerk edupool.ch or finance and accounting specialist with a federal diploma
- Professional experience in finance and accounting; experience in school administration or in the cantonal environment is an advantage
- Strong numerical understanding and analytical skills
- Precise, structured and punctual working style as well as high quality awareness
- Independent and responsible working style
- Solid IT user skills, especially in SAP and Excel
- Very good German language skills
- Forward-looking and networked thinking
- Strong service orientation
Our offer
- A competent and collegial team
- An interesting and varied field of activity
- Modern infrastructure
- Central workplace, from the new school year 2027/2028 the new workplace will be near Enge station for 3 years
- Remuneration according to cantonal guidelines
Application
Have we aroused your interest?
We look forward to your application. Please submit your documents exclusively via the online tool. For enquiries, Ms Christa Fleischmann, Head of Services, Tel. +41 44 368 27 05, Email christa.fleischmann@edu.zh.ch, will be happy to assist you.
