Accounting / Administration Clerk 80%

We are looking for someone starting on February 1, 2027 or by arrangement

Accounting / Administration Clerk 80% ##

Operation
For over 45 years, the Bernische Verein für Gefangenen- und Entlassenenfürsorge (BeVGe) has operated Haus Felsenau. We are a non-abstinence-oriented residential home with 36 places and an integrated work and occupation program. People (mostly with a substance dependency and/or mental illnesses) find a home with holistic care and counseling after a release from criminal or precautionary detention, from a psychiatric clinic, or in cases of homelessness. The daily structure includes occupation, catering, medical care, night supervision, and accompanied and unaccompanied leisure activities. The institution aims to achieve an improvement in the residents' mostly difficult life situations together with the residents. Independent life management and action competencies are promoted.

Area of Responsibility
You will run the secretariat and perform an important coordination function in our operation internally and towards the outside.

The main task consists of the operational processing of the entire financial accounting:

• Management of the accounting for two clients (Haus Felsenau and Trägerverein BeVGe), incl. preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements
• Management of the entire payment transactions, incl. invoicing with debt collection, coding, posting and controlling of accounts payable and accounts receivable, liquidity control
• Management of the main cash desk as well as supervision of the three petty cash desks
• Controlling, preparation and execution of cash payments to the residents
• Personnel administration with payroll accounting and administration incl. social benefits and changes
• Controlling kiosk operations, incl. quarterly inventory

In addition to the tasks in accounting, diverse activities in the administrative area are added:

• Administration of admissions and discharges of residents
• Management of statistics regarding occupancy
• Participation in team meetings and supervisions, incl. minute-taking
• Telephone service
• Management of the address directory of members, patrons, and donors of the association
• Management of incoming donations and acknowledgments

Across departments, you will also perform tasks in care:

• Induction, guidance and support of interns in the administrative area
• Assumption of late and weekend shifts as well as on-call service on a rotational basis (approx. one week of on-call and weekend service every two to three months; deployment on Saturdays from 06.45 - 13.45 as the sole supervisor for the entire operation)
• Handing over daily payouts, kiosk items and medications to the residents

Requirement Profile
For this demanding position, we are looking for a person who thinks ahead and follows the various processes in the operation attentively, as well as seeks constructive cooperation in the team.

We imagine an outgoing personality with a high level of social commitment, who has already acquired a conscientious and exact way of working in professional life and is ready to take on responsibility.

You possess the professional competencies and skills to fulfill the described tasks and have appropriate training in the commercial field, preferably as an Accounting Clerk.

A car driver's license is mandatory for this position.

Offer
We offer you an extraordinary, exciting and varied job in finance in an institution in the inpatient addiction sector.

We orient ourselves according to the guidelines of the Canton of Bern and offer you contemporary employment conditions in a future-oriented, family-like home operation in a well-coordinated, interdisciplinary team. The workplace is located on the edge of the city of Bern and is easily accessible by public transport. A parking space and catering options are available to you.

Do you feel addressed?

In addition to the joy of administrative tasks and cooperation in the team, are you also interested in accompanying people with an addiction and/or mental illness?

Are you looking for a new challenging position in which you can use your professional and social competence?

We look forward to receiving your meaningful application by November 18, 2026, and look forward to getting to know you.