The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an international research university with a wide range of subjects. 200 years of history, about 31,500 students, more than 6,000 employees and an excellent reputation in Germany and abroad: The University of Bonn is one of the most important universities in Germany and has been awarded as a university of excellence. For Department 5 – Finance, the University of Bonn is looking for 1. January 2027 unlimited and full-time

Deputy Finance

We are looking for a dedicated management personality responsible for the economic and financial interests of the university and, together with the employees of the department, supporting the university management, the bodies as well as seven faculties and other scientific institutions through proactive services and advice, thereby ensuring the financial sustainability and performance of the university.

You lead a team of around 80 employees in four departments: external accounting, personnel management, central procurement and customs as well as financial, personnel and academic controlling. As a financial representative, you are a representative of all financial, accounting and budgetary issues relating to Rectorate, bodies and the relevant Ministry as well as audits. You take over the operational and strategic (financial) planning as well as the management of the budget, including personnel, third parties and other funds, thereby ensuring legal and strategy-oriented use of funds. You are responsible for accounting and reporting. In this function, you create monthly and annual accounts and financial analyses that serve as the basis for decision-making for the Rectorate and the bodies. The expert advice from you and your employees refers to a wide range of financial topics (invoicing, procurement and customs, controlling, planning and management of the budget). You optimise the financial and controlling processes across the university and drive the further development of the SAP ERP system. You promote the continuous process of change of the central university administration, participate proactively in cross-departmental projects and work closely with the other doctors. You will inspire your employees to implement modern technologies and methods. You promote the development and qualification of department leaders and employees in the department to establish a powerful team structure and attractive working environment in the long term.

You have a completed academic degree (master, university diploma or accredited master at a university) ideally in the fields of finance, controlling or management. As an experienced manager, you assume an important responsibility for managing and developing the department. With your multi-year expertise in the field of employee management, you are able to motivate, coordinate and achieve goals together with your employees. You have multiannual relevant experience in the public sector. Ideally, this originates from finance or you have the ability to work quickly into the areas of responsibility of the department due to a cross-sectional function with financial reference. You recognize overriding relationships, set clear priorities and take into account long-term goals and possible effects in your decisions. You continuously question processes and structures and are open to new developments such as digitalization or artificial intelligence. You are a proactive and creative person who actively drives decisions and takes responsibility. You communicate with respect and appreciation, represent your position clearly and rationally and win others for your projects. You inform your team in time and intelligibly about current developments and explain decisions and their backgrounds. As part of an international university, communication in English in word and writing is not an obstacle to you.

a varied and demanding activity with one of the largest employers in the region, job security and location loyalty, modern and redesigned office spaces in the heart of Bonn, flexible working hours and the possibility of teleworking, Continuing and continuing training for employees: occupational pension (VBL), numerous offers of university sports, a very good connection to the ÖPNV through the central location in Bonn as well as the possibility to use inexpensive parking offers, recruitment in the case of the relevant conditions of civil servants' rights (consultation group up to A16 LBesO); otherwise in the employee relationship.

For setting or Takeover into the official's relation to the sample shall in principle be a maximum age limit of 42 years (§ 14 para. 3 LBG NRW). Disabled people and them according to § 2(3) of the Nineth Book Social Code – Rehabilitation and participation of people with disabilities – (Article 1 of the Act of 23). December 2016, BGBl. I p. 3234) in the current version of equalized persons with disabilities may also be hired if You are 45. It has not yet been completed.

The University of Bonn promotes an open, value-assurance and non-discriminatory higher education culture and actively promotes opportunities and family-friendliness. We aim to reduce structural disadvantages and strengthen diversity in research, teaching and administration. We therefore welcome all applications, regardless of ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, disability and age.

Applicants of women and people with severe disabilities and persons with equal status are preferably taken into account in the context of the National Equality Act (LGG) NRW and the Social Code (SGB) IX.

If you are interested in the position with the identification number 2026/456, please send us your complete and meaningful application documents by 22.11.2026 via the online application form. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Kai Viebahn (viebahn@verwaltung.uni-bonn.de) or Mrs. Anke Franz (franz@hapeko.de) from the personnel consulting company HAPEKO Hanseatisches Personalkontor Deutschland GmbH. The confidential treatment of your application is of course.

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