Assistant in accounting management

Job description ##

Do you have experience in accounting and wish to put your professional skills into practice in an environment full of meaning and strong values?

In your capacity as an assistant in accounting management, you will be responsible for maintaining all the accounting for detainees. By joining our accounting team, you will thus participate in the smooth running of the Etablissements de la plaine de l-Orbe, and in the appropriate care of detainees.

Furthermore, you will act at all times in compliance with our values: "Loyalty, Solidarity, Credibility".

Responsibilities ##

• Maintain the individual accounts of detainees, the detainee cash fund and the associated account, and ensure the reconciliation of the different accounts according to State standards and directives.
• Perform financial operations on behalf of detainees: payment of remuneration, monitoring of debts, management of payments, management of the postal check account, refunds, participation in accounting counters.
• Establish monthly account statements for detainees and inform them, in writing or during interviews, about their financial operations and the procedures related to the management of their money.
• Collaborate with the different sectors and ensure internal substitution within the sector and the establishment.
• Collaborate with the institutional accounting of the establishment.

For further information, please consult the job description by clicking here or contact Mr. Noya, head of accounting for the EPO, at 024 557 67 64.

Qualifications ##

• CFC as a commercial employee or an equivalent title is required.
• Professional experience in the field of accounting of at least 5 years after obtaining the title.
• Very good command of MS Office software, in particular Excel.
• Mastery of the French language, knowledge of foreign languages, an asset.
• Knowledge of IT systems. SAP and ProConcept, an asset.
• Open-mindedness and flexibility, planning and organizational skills, analytical and synthesis skills, rigor, spirit of mutual aid and collaboration, communication skills.
• Excellent stress management. Public service ethics and discretion.

Our employment conditions require that you are Swiss or a holder of a permit C, exempt from a certificate of unpaid debts (an extract from the Office des poursuites must be presented during the process) and your criminal record must be clean. There is a right to consult the criminal record in application of the Federal Act on Criminal Records by the hiring authority for this position.

WHO ARE WE? ##

The Service pénitentiaire is composed of many professions whose meaning is significant for the public service. We ensure the care of persons placed under the hand of criminal justice, whether before or after judgment.

Our mission is twofold: to protect the population and to support the reintegration of persons into society. The SPEN manages and supervises the Office d-exécution des peines and 6 penitentiary establishments placed under its authority.

Do you want to know more? Watch the presentations of our professions here:

https://www.vd.ch/securite/penitentiaire/emplois/nos-metiers-on-en-parle

Why join the State of Vaud? ##

The State of Vaud offers a great diversity of jobs and opportunities for evolution. Working conditions are guided by the themes of equality, inclusion, sustainability and professional ethics in an environment conducive to the reconciliation of professional and private life.

To learn more about our advantages, visit our Etat employeur page.