Job advertisement: Clerical employee for our financial accounting department (m, f, d)

29 July 2024

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The General Students' Committee (AStA) is the elected political representation of the approximately 44,000 students at the University of Hamburg and is elected by the student parliament for a term of office of one year. It represents the student body in dealings with politicians, the administration and the public, is committed to improving study conditions and supports student initiatives and cultural events. The AStA consists of a team of around 110 employees, including the annually elected Executive Board, six to seven core departments and four semi-autonomous departments.

To support our finance department, we are looking for a commercial employee for our financial accounting department (m, f, d) part-time: 25 hours

Tasks:

- Digitisation of work processes (DATEV Online)
- Processing of the financial application system
- Processing of payment transactions including dunning (SFirm)
- Preparatory bookkeeping and cash management
- Preparatory payroll accounting
- Accounting for significant events (StuPa elections)
- Maintenance and billing of the semester ticket loan
- Monthly target/actual comparisons
- Advising student councils and students on financial matters
- Supporting the public, especially during office hours
- Filing and archiving as well as inventory planning

Requirements

- Commercial training with several years of professional experience in financial accounting (or equivalent qualification)
- Very good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel
- SFirm knowledge is an advantage
- Very good written and spoken German, good knowledge of English
- Self-confident, assertive and friendly demeanour
- Enjoy dealing with people with different political ambitions
- Ability to adapt to annually changing contact persons
- Enjoyment and ability to support the finance officers in an advisory capacity in the performance of their duties
- Independent, careful and structured way of working

We offer

- a young, dynamic, student team
- a workplace centrally located on campus with scope for personal development
- flexible working hours
- very good transport connections (public transport)
- 13th salary
- a permanent employment contract
- Premium job ticket

Please send a complete written application online by 16.08.2024 to

AStA of the University of Hamburg
Beate Ahrens / Mathis Lorenzen
Von-Melle-Park 5
20146 Hamburg

vorstand@asta.uni-hamburg.de
cc: mathis.lorenzen@asta.uni-hamburg.de
Phone: 040 / 450 204-26 and -23