Funding position for Social Insurance and Payroll Specialist (80%), limited to 3 years

Funding position for Social Insurance and Payroll Specialist (80%), limited to 3 years
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Services

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Your tasks:

The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW is looking for a committed and dynamic person to strengthen our team in the area of personnel and payroll. We offer a supportive environment for collaboration and focused further education to become a Social Insurance and Payroll Specialist.

In this position, you will develop into a competent contact person in the field of payroll and social insurance with our support. You will be accompanied by experienced colleagues and will simultaneously complete further training to become a certified social insurance specialist and a payroll specialist (the costs for both trainings will be covered by FHNW).

The most important aspects of your tasks at a glance:

• Operational support for personnel administration staff in payroll, withholding tax, and social insurance-specific questions
• Collaboration in communication with external entities such as social insurance and tax offices
• Support for the monthly payroll run
• Maintenance of employee master data and use of SAP HCM as well as UKA-Solutions for various tasks, control, and reconciliation work
• Ensuring the correct implementation of FHNW regulations as well as national and international legal provisions

Your profile:

Are you eager and energetic to develop into a specialist in payroll and social insurance and do you identify with the following questions?

• Do you have a completed commercial apprenticeship or an equivalent qualification?
• Have you had contact or experience in payroll accounting and/or in the field of social insurance?
• Are you interested in connecting theory and practice to successfully complete the further training to become a certified social insurance specialist and payroll specialist?
• Do you navigate confidently through common office and various portal applications and are you adept at using digital tools?
• Are you also a reliable, service-oriented, and team-oriented personality with an efficient working style and can communicate well in both spoken and written German?

Your prospects:

You will receive comprehensive training as a social insurance specialist and a qualification as a payroll specialist. These trainings will enable you to present yourself as a sought-after professional with extensive and international knowledge in payroll accounting in the job market.

The personnel administration team at FHNW works in a dynamic and lively work environment. It is in regular contact with various stakeholders and external partners and ensures monthly salary and fee payments to around 3,300 employees and 1,500 guest lecturers. The increasing international orientation of FHNW brings new and exciting challenges every day.

This position is limited to three years and is not tied to any further obligations.

We cannot consider applications from recruitment agencies.

Your benefits:

• ​Wide range of university sports offerings
• Cultural program with lectures, dancing, concerts, theater, and films
• Practiced equality in pay between men and women
• Annual working time (42 hours/week) with the option for part-time and home office
• Diverse internal and external training opportunities

Date: Position starts on 01.09.2025 or by arrangement

Your workplace:

University of Applied Sciences and Arts FHNW
Klosterzelgstrasse 2
5210 Windisch

Any questions?

About the position:
Rolf Arnold, Head of Personnel Administration, Contact: +41 56 202 71 27

About the application process:
Andrea Schaefer, HR Responsible, Contact: +41 56 202 80 25

Will you soon be part of our team? We look forward to your application.