Teamlead Finance & Sparring CFO 80 - 100 %

Transa Backpacking AG

Zürich

Key information

Publication date:20 August 2025
Workload:80 – 100%
Contract type:Permanent position
Place of work:Zürich

Lead the finance department at Transa into the future? Bring your leadership experience and solid financial knowledge into accounting and controlling projects? Connect and inspire people? And do this in a self-organized environment? Interested? Then read on…

The position Teamlead Finance & Sparring CFO 80 - 100 % is vacant. We want to fill it again by January 2026 or by arrangement.

In this role, you take on the personnel responsibility for all team members in the finance circle. In addition, there are other roles with a professional focus such as liquidity management, financing and interface to financial partners as well as internal process analysis and optimization.

YOUR SPECIALTY AS TEAMLEAD FINANCE

Professional and personnel responsibility for a team of 8 employees. Leadership is your thing.
Structurally shaping the future of the team in sparring with the CFO? Change management suits you.
Initiating and being responsible for automation and digitization projects in our financial processes. Future-oriented & efficient.
Co-designing the company's financial management and deriving the strategy in the finance circle in line with the Transa strategy. Your passion.
Taking on specialist roles on topics such as liquidity, financing, rolling forecast, reporting, sparring partner for financial statement preparation & audits etc. Yes, of course.
Being a close interface as a Financial Companion for people with financial responsibility from other circles/business areas? Always gladly.
Developing existing business areas together with area managers and opening up new opportunities. Absolutely.

THIS IS YOU

Several years of experience in a team leadership role and a solid education in finance. You can see it in your profile.
Encounters with people and entrepreneurial thinking. Are important to you.
Strengthening employees in their own responsibility, supporting their development and promoting cooperation. That is needed.
Project-oriented work and collaboration with other areas. That suits you.
Optimizing and redesigning processes and workflows. You find that exciting.
IT-savvy, confident handling of data models and ERP, business intelligence and reporting tools. That is certainly an advantage.
Interested in self-organized work. Wonderful.

YOUR BENEFITS

A shared spirit of outdoor enthusiasts that can move mountains
Generous shopping discounts and above-average, part-time friendly social benefits
A centrally located workplace, 5 minutes walk from Zurich main station
Development opportunities on a professional and personal level
A 40-hour week or flexible working time models (depending on the model, there are up to 7.5 weeks of vacation per year) and the possibility of unpaid leave
Deep insights into the organization and processes of Transa
And much more

The right equipment in your backpack? Does this role as Teamlead Finance appeal to you?

Then we look forward to your online application. Please do not send us your application by e-mail for data protection reasons.
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THIS IS US

Transa Backpacking AG has been the competence center for high-quality travel and outdoor equipment for over 45 years. The motto «Out. But right.» is lived by around 500 employees. We are organized in circles and use the patterns of Sociocracy 3.0 – this ensures that employees are deployed according to their skills. In the branches Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Vevey and Winterthur, the two outlet branches as well as the station business Yosemite in Zermatt, there are over 42,000 products from around 550 brands. Should products ever get damaged, we take care of them in the repair workshop in Zurich Altstetten.

MORE INFORMATION

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Katja from the People Team:
Tel. 044 278 90 31, or visit us online: www.transa.ch

We want to fill this role as Teamlead Finance in Zurich without the support of personnel service providers.