Head of Accounting & Financial Reporting Switzerland

Main responsibilities/ activities

• Leads the Swiss accounting function (General Ledger, Account Payable/Receivable, Treasury…)
• Supervises and is accountable for the monthly, quarterly, yearly accounting closes in accordance with Financial Group Manual (Swiss Gaap and IFRS Gaap)
• Accountable for Group financial reporting (Aaro) including meeting deadlines
• Manage statutory to IFRS GAAP reporting differences, assessing the implication for the Group and ensure completeness of both local and management reporting
• Maintaining the chart of accounts and ensuring accounting standards and data quality of submissions from subsidiaries is of a high standard and in compliance with group requirements
• Accountable for Cash flow reporting (Kyriba)
• Ensures adherence to the Group internal controls framework
• Manages and oversees the various external audit processes
• Financial & accounting systems (incl. receivables & payables): coordinates and draws on appropriate resources in order to ensure systems meet the accounting needs.
• Supports, leads, or represent CH Finance in certain Country or Group projects
• Efficiently interfaces and supports CH business controlling
• Preparation of internal monthly Management reports together with analysis and commentaries on the results for the period
• Deputy of CH Finance Director

Main objectives of this function

• Ensure accurate, timely, efficient and compliant financial reporting process including coordination of period-end closing activities, management and group reporting, including regulatory in accordance with IFRS and local accounting standards.
• Design & reorganize the Swiss accounting function, in particular defi ne specialized tasks (staged approach) and CH key users/ leads (AR, AP, FA, TR,…)
• Optimize/ simplify F-CH accounting shared service center: •
• Select best practices and align accounting practices & closing processes in Switzerland, including inputs from functions outside finance.
• Support the implementation of new Group internal control policies
• Support for the implementation of projects implemented in Switzerland affecting the Finance sector.
• Implementation of the structure and accounting standard on acquisitions
• Improvement of ERP Finance and supply chain tools
• Develop a strong relationship with responsibilities of Labs and regions management to build a strong functional reporting and control framework. Utilize these relationships to understand the different business models and strategies applied in different locations to better understand the Swiss operations in relation with the finance

Main/Support project on Accounting/Finance

Integration of new acquisitions

• Designing and modelling the financial transfer with the Trustees
• Recovery of the accounting system for acquisitions before integration into Unilabs
• Aaro Group Reporting

Rollout End to End Process Improvements & Organizational redesign Projects

• Project: Fortuna
• Project: Qualiac Direct Purchasing -> Comed SHS •
• Project: Qualiac services "Indirect" -> Comed SHS
• Project: QR Code Uniadmin and Qualiac
• Project: Call Center outsourcing via Intrum

Cash Collection improvement -> via Intrum partnership

• Repurchase of receivables
• Portfolio Integration
• Inkassomed modelling

Key interfaces

• Internal: Group: Head of Group Accounting/ CH: Accounting heads; CH Business Controlling function, other CH functional/ regional heads.
• External: Audit (E&Y, PWC), collection agencies, support of reporting processes with external customer

Job Dimensions

CH Net Sales Budget 2019: 230 CHF million/ EBITDA 60 CHF million
Direct reports FTE’s: 2
Accounting FTE’s: 16.5

• Company: 4
• Reporting units: 26
• Sales invoices (AR): ~ 2 million/ year
• TP payables: ~50’000/ year

Compétences requises

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of French and German or Swiss German, English is required for this position
• 7 -9 years’ experience in a similar role
• Used to working with strong methodologies and very well structured
• Ability to organize, prioritize work, meet deadlines, lead a team (10 pers.)
• Must be savvy in technology and software
• Master’s degree or equivalent

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Natural drive, energetic, and ability to win over people
• Pragmatic, Hands-on, ability to deep dive to remove roadblocks
• High degree of initiative and ability to work independently
• Team player
• Ability to deliver quality results

Nous offrons

• Un environnement de travail passionnant et dynamique, avec une dimension internationale
• La possibilité de prendre des responsabilités et de développer votre potentiel
• Une atmosphère de travail positive dans un cadre collaboratif et une culture d'entreprise pronant le respect et la reconnaissance
• Des avantages sociaux attractifs, ainsi qu'une semaine de travail de 40 heures et 5 semaines de vacances par année
• Un forfait annuel pour vos analyses personnelles et tarifs spéciaux pour les actes de radiologie effectués au sein du Groupe Unilabs