Fixed-term Contract - Accountant

We will achieve together

Within the Finance, Sustainability, Legal & Risk Department, the Accounts unit, attached to the Accounts and Financing Activity, is primarily responsible for ensuring compliance with accounting or financial rules, standards and laws. It contributes to creating value for the company by closing the accounts each month and producing consolidated financial statements according to IFRS standards.

Your energy in the service of a sustainable Geneva

Reporting to the "Closing and Subsidiaries Manager", the position combines autonomous management of subsidiary accounting and a corporate accountant role within a defined SIG scope, requiring strong analytical skills and excellent mastery of SAP. In this context, your role will consist of:

• Fully and autonomously managing the accounting of subsidiaries, in particular:
  • Accounting and receipt/payment of customer/supplier invoices;
  • Maintaining fixed asset accounting;
  • Managing VAT and other tax declarations;
  • Preparing and ensuring the reliability of annual consolidation packages;
  • Performing closings and producing monthly, quarterly and annual reports;
  • Preparing budgets;
  • Planning, coordinating and monitoring statutory audits of subsidiaries in collaboration with external auditors (Code of Obligations).

• Being responsible for an accounting section within the SIG scope, namely:
  • Calculating and posting monthly closing entries to ensure the existence, completeness and accuracy of accounting figures related to your accounting section(s) (stock and personnel expenses), in compliance with internal/external rules;
  • Analysing and ensuring the reliability, throughout the period, of amounts and entries of flows generated by operational tools in order to request the necessary information to then post the required adjustments if necessary to ensure the existence, completeness and accuracy of accounting figures;
  • Supporting business units to obtain the necessary information for a good understanding of the process and business data, which must be reflected in the accounting sections;
  • Post-closing analyses to ensure the reliability of figures posted related to your accounting section(s) and explaining variances;
  • Reconciling balance sheet and income statement items with sub-modules;

• Participating in the consolidation of accounts and the preparation of notes to the consolidated financial statements:
  • Intervening in the group’s financial consolidation process, notably by posting consolidation entries;
  • Preparing and drafting notes to the consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS standards.

Your personality and skills

You maintain good relationships with your partners and cultivate your network in a spirit of consensus.

You are comfortable in both oral and written expression.

Autonomous, you are a source of proposals and know how to analyse processes in order to optimise them by suggesting improvements.

Curious and open-minded, you demonstrate agility and are capable of quickly providing concrete solutions in changing and unpredictable contexts.

You have excellent accounting and analytical knowledge.

You are comfortable with MS Office tools (Excel and PowerPoint) and master SAP and the modules related to your accounting section(s) (ideally SAP-AA and SAP-CO).

Your background:

• Advanced diploma in accounting (specialist certificate in finance and accounting or equivalent);
• Minimum 8 years of accounting experience;
• Mastery of standards (IFRS, CO) and accounting processes;
• Minimum 3 years of fiduciary experience required.

Joining SIG means participating in change!

SIG is a local public company serving the population, businesses and public authorities of Geneva. It provides a wide range of services in the distribution of energy, water and waste recovery. As the industrial arm of the State of Geneva, it is committed to an ambitious ecological transition.

Concerned with promoting equality between women and men as well as diversity within its teams, our institution encourages applications from everyone, regardless of gender, origin or any other personal characteristic.

In areas where women are currently underrepresented, female applications are particularly encouraged.

Job posting no. 8163

Application deadline

14 August 2026