Head of Accounting (m/f/d) 80%-100%

About the job

Working at BDO

Unique. Versatile. Ambitious. With over 40 locations in Switzerland, we offer you a working environment characterised by local connection and international professionalism. Together we create sustainable growth, promote diversity and take responsibility. A strong team culture, attractive benefits and predictable flexibility foster our joint development and enable you to realise your full potential.

Rethinking finance at BDO!

Do you want to achieve more in accounting than just numbers?
Then a key role with entrepreneurial impact awaits you with us. In our well-coordinated team, you actively shape the future of financial accounting – by combining classic accounting expertise with modern AI approaches. As a central leader, you position accounting as a real success factor and drive BDO forward decisively with your innovative spirit, expertise and sense for sustainable processes. In doing so, you act as a sparring partner for the CFO and are part of the Finance & Controlling management team. Together with your team, you ensure that we are operationally excellently positioned even in the digital and AI-driven future. You take on a strategic role and actively contribute to the further development of our accounting department as well as to shaping important corporate goals.

Head of Accounting (m/f/d) 80%-100%

Your responsibilities

• Leading and further developing a committed team
• Comprehensive responsibility for accounting including general and subsidiary ledgers as well as the corresponding processes
• Bringing in expertise in tax accounting, accounting of subsidiaries and consolidation
• Promoter and driver of innovation – continuous professional and technological development of a well-coordinated, high-performing team
• Driving further automation, using change management tools and actively contributing approaches from artificial intelligence to improve process and SAP system landscapes
• Together with the team, you are responsible for the timely and high-quality preparation of financial statements according to OR and Swiss GAAP FER
• Direct collaboration with the CFO as a sparring partner for strategic and operational questions in accounting

Your profile

• Master’s degree (university, university of applied sciences) or equivalent in finance as well as several years of relevant practical and leadership experience in financial accounting
• Extensive expertise in accounting, financial reporting according to Swiss GAAP FER and OR, consolidation and integration of subsidiaries
• Comprehensive experience in team leadership and project management
• Strong drive for innovation and automation, ideally supported by initial experience in the use of artificial intelligence in accounting
• Ability to conceptually further develop accounting processes and ensure the highest quality standards
• You are communicative, solution-oriented, have an appreciative leadership style and love to get stuck in and implement ideas
• Very good German skills, ideally good French skills as well
• You are resilient and remain calm in critical situations

What we offer

• Varied activities in an entrepreneurial environment
• Support for further training
• Appreciative culture
• Leadership development programme
• Annual working hours with flexible working times

Work-life balance – with us not an empty phrase, but lived everyday life

Become part of BDO

René Amrhein
Senior HR Recruiting Partner
+41 44 444 36 51
www.bdo.ch/careers