COMPANY PRESENTATION

Terre des hommes is Switzerland's largest children's aid organization. Each year, we directly and indirectly support more than four million children and their relatives in more than 30 countries.

We aspire to a world where the rights of children, as defined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, are always respected. A world where children can grow up safe from harm and become the actors and actresses of the change they want to see in their lives.

JOB AD DESCRIPTION

Entry into office: 0 01.06.2023

Duration: Permanent contract

Activity rate: 100%

Place of work: Lausanne, Switzerland (3 days/week face-to-face)

Application deadline: Terre des hommes does not set an application deadline for this position, recruitment is open until the position is filled.

Tdh:

Terre des hommes (Tdh) is Switzerland's largest children's aid organisation. Since 1960, Tdh has been helping to build a better future for underprivileged children and their communities through innovative and sustainable solutions. Active in nearly 40 countries, Tdh works with local and international partners to develop and implement projects in the field that help improve the daily lives of more than four million children and members of their communities, in areas of health, protection and emergency. This commitment is funded through individual and institutional support, with administrative costs kept to a minimum.

Context :

Integrated within the « Information Systems and Analytics » (iSA) under the coordination of the Finance Division, the accounting applications referent is in charge of maintaining the accounting systems on a daily basis and is a key player in the search for solutions in the face of requests made by the business – in collaboration with other stakeholders (IT, other application referents). You guarantee the proper functioning of the financial information system at the level of the tools relating to accounting in the broad sense (field and head office, financial accounting, suppliers and debtors).

You participate in the overall reflection on financial information systems and are responsible for implementing the development of applications related to accounting.

You ensure the quality of the technical and functional compilation of data from the various tools for which you are responsible and their recovery in the various interfaces by anticipating potential delays.

You maintain the functional and technical knowledge necessary for the sustainability of an application or system through maintenance and upgrades.

Responsibilities:

A – Application Manager

• Analysis of business needs (in connection with the development request process)
• Specification of needs and application development (redesign or creation)
• Functional maintenance (daily support and bug fixes, version update)
• Training of key users (basic and continuous training)
• Maintenance and creation of technical and functional documentation (best practices and procedures, management rules and functional logic)
• Overall framework for data management (consolidation, quality, backup and security)

B – Reporting

• Maintenance and continuous optimization of the reporting system (upgrade, correction, adjustment of calculations and indicators, bug fixes)
• Update of data sources (manual or automatic update, automation)
• Creation and redesign of reports with PowerBi (including data integration)

C - Project management

• Planning of tasks and coordination of the project team accordingly. Contribution to costing
• Coordination of stakeholders both internal (customers and solution providers) and external (service providers, consultants, software publishers)
• Regular communication and use of internal project management tools (beesbusy)

Profile :

• Education: Graduate of a business school, engineering school or university
• Languages: fluent French and English
• Desired experiences: First significant experience of at least 2 years as an application manager, business analyst or similar role
• Mastery of accounting processes and tools, knowledge of ABACUS and SAGA is a plus
• Ability to conceptualize business objects
• Mastery of Business Intelligence tools (PowerBi, Tableau, Qlik, ...)
• Excellent interpersonal skills and good level analytical skills (ability to train, support, advise, control with the right tone), strength of proposal
• Ability to translate business needs into technical language

Salary :

Salary between 5,500 and 6,700 CHF gross x 13 depending on experience

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies:

• Undertakes to respect the Global Code of Conduct and to systematically report any violation of the Code through Tdh's reporting procedure: to raise awareness within the Foundation about violence and abuse, and the rights that result from it, to towards children, community members and our own employees
• Undertakes to comply with Risk Management Policies, including: Safeguard policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy, Abusive Behavior at Work Directive), Safety/Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention Policies against the Financing of Criminal Activities
• Committed to reducing the risk of abuse by building an open and informed management culture within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we operate

We offer you exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, within a team that wants to make a difference for children in very vulnerable situations.

Have we piqued your interest? Do you want to take up this challenge?

Procedure :

Please apply directly online: http://www.jobs.net/j/JJjXDCWU?idpartenaire=20469

Only complete files (CV + cover letter) posted on our official website will be processed. Additional documents (diplomas, work certificates, etc.) will be requested later. We will only contact the files selected for further recruitment. Indeed, due to the large number of applications received, it is difficult for us to respond personally to each candidate. Thank you for understanding.