Energie Wasser Bern
Bern
HR Specialist: Payroll 60 - 100%
- 12 September 2026
- 60 – 100%
- Bern
Job summary
Bern is the world's most livable city, offering clean water and warmth. Join us for a rewarding opportunity!
Tasks
- Prepare and manage the monthly payroll process efficiently.
- Ensure compliance with wage, social insurance, and labor laws.
- Handle social insurance mutations and collaborate with the team.
Skills
- Commercial training with advanced payroll or social insurance education.
- Several years of end-to-end payroll process experience required.
- Strong knowledge of SAP and willingness for team development.
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About the job
Bern is the most liveable city in the world. There is no two ways about it for us. Clean water, environmentally friendly electricity and cosy warmth. Everything you need to feel comfortable comes from us (agreed, almost everything). And maybe soon from you too.
These are your tasks
- Prepare, execute and be responsible for the monthly payroll process
- Ensure compliance with legal requirements in the areas of salary, social insurance, withholding tax and labour law together with a second specialist
- Make changes in the area of social insurance and process them on time
- Be responsible within the team for cooperation with social insurance institutions (AHV, IV, EO, ALV, BVG, UVG, KTG, family allowances as well as EO compensations)
- Carry out year-end tasks such as salary certificates, declarations and reconciliations with the financial accounting department
- Assist in the correct recording and processing of time management data such as on-call duty and shifts - depending on the level of employment
- Develop processes and digitalisation together with the team
This is what sets you apart
- Commercial basic training with solid further education in payroll or social insurance
- Several years of experience in end-to-end responsibility for the payroll process
- Sound knowledge of the relevant legal provisions
- Good knowledge of SAP and ideally SuccessFactors
- Openness to further development together with the entire HR Services team
Do you have questions?
Your new manager, Cornelia Bühler Zbinden, looks forward to your application. Thank you for using our online application for this. It is simple, quick and also without a personal login. If you have any questions beforehand, just call Cornelia at: +41 31 321 35 22.
About us
Our strategy can be summed up well: We supply Bern with energy and water – safely and sustainably. There is plenty to do. And we have big plans. For this, we need you. People with the ambition to make a difference and the desire to reach the goal together as a team. So that our Bern remains liveable.
