Accounting Specialist

The purpose of Idorsia is to discover, develop and commercialize innovative medicines to help more patients. To achieve this, we will develop Idorsia into a leading biopharmaceutical company, with a strong scientific core.

Make an impact in a collaborative international finance team.

We're looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Accounting Specialist to join our Finance team. In this role, you'll help ensure the smooth running of our day-to-day financial operations while contributing to accurate financial reporting and the continuous digitalization and automation of finance processes, helping to improve efficiency, data quality, and the overall user experience.

Working closely with colleagues across the business, you'll play an important role in accounts payable, general accounting, month-end closing activities, and finance projects in an international environment.

Your responsibilities

• Process vendor invoices accurately and in compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Review and process employee expense claims and payment requests.
• Prepare payment runs and perform bank postings and reconciliations.
• Maintain accounts payable subledgers and resolve posting discrepancies.
• Respond to vendor and internal stakeholder inquiries regarding invoices, payments, and account balances.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, including audits and VAT reporting.
• Contribute to ERP enhancements and finance process improvement initiatives.
• Provide support across the Finance team on additional accounting activities as required.

What you'll bring

• Commercial apprenticeship or equivalent qualification with accounting experience.
• Further education or a degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field is an advantage.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken; German and/or French are an asset

• At least five years of experience in a similar accounting role, ideally within an international company.
• Sound understanding of accounting principles and accounts payable processes.
• Experience working with ERP systems and Microsoft Excel.
• A structured, reliable, and detail-oriented working style with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with colleagues and external partners.

Why join us?

• Be part of an international and collaborative Finance team.
• Take ownership of diverse accounting responsibilities with real business impact.
• Help shape the digital transformation of Finance by contributing to automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Grow your expertise in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Work  Location: Allschwil, Switzerland

Business Area: Global Finance & Procurement

Schedule: Fulltime

Job Type: Permanent

Job ID: 4795

At Idorsia, we harness the power of difference, authenticity, and inclusion to achieve business success.
We encourage all potential candidates with diverse backgrounds of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, and disability to submit their job applications. All applicants will receive consideration.
We are committed to fostering respect, fairness, and equal opportunities for all job applicants and our employees.

Please be informed that if you are selected for this position, your employment will be subject to a pre-employment background screening process, of which you would be informed in greater detail in due course.

Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd ("Idorsia") is committed to a fair and transparent application process. In order to avoid any conflict of interest in line with Idorsia Code of Business Conduct, which would undermine such a commitment, the applicants  must disclose any personal, financial, or other outside interests interfering with the interests of Idorsia. Further, the applicant is obliged to disclose any and all relationships with close or affiliated persons, who are employees of Idorsia or are collaborating with Idorsia in any other contractual relationship. 

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