General Director 100%

• 28 September 2026
• 100%
• Indefinite duration
• Rte des Acacias 78, 1227 Les Acacias
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As autonomous public law institutions, the Fonds cantonaux de compensation des allocations familiales et de l-assurance-maternité play a central role in the Geneva social insurance system. Placed under the supervision of the département de la cohésion sociale (DCS), they contribute to ensuring the balance and solidarity of these schemes by centralizing their financial flows, constituting and managing their reserves, and ensuring the management of their assets. In this capacity, they particularly ensure the financing of benefits and the investment of assets from a perspective of security, sustainability, and yield.

At the heart of a complex institutional ecosystem, the Funds maintain close relationships with nearly a hundred compensation funds, social partners, and cantonal and federal authorities.

In order to succeed the current holder who will soon exercise her rights to retirement, the Fonds cantonaux de compensation des allocations familiales et de l-assurance-maternité are looking for their next

General Director 100%

Reporting to their Boards of Directors, you assume global responsibility for the two Funds and contribute to their strategic orientations. You ensure their representation to their various partners and have wide autonomy in the exercise of your function.

Your main responsibilities

In a constantly moving environment, you anticipate economic, social, regulatory, and financial developments, measure their impact, and prepare proposals that guarantee the long-term balance of the schemes, notably the setting of contribution rates.

This overview is based on rigorous financial management: you submit the reserve investment strategy to the Boards of Directors and ensure its implementation, directly or with external partners depending on your profile. You exercise careful monitoring of it, focusing on reporting, performance, and risk level.

You also ensure the financial and administrative steering of the Funds, including risk management and the internal control system, budgetary and accounting monitoring, as well as compliance with legislative provisions by the executing bodies.

As an interlocutor for the Boards of Directors, authorities, compensation funds, and financial actors, you represent the Funds and conduct complex files while respecting institutional balances. You particularly contribute actively, under the leadership of the DCS, to the implementation of the evolutions and new schemes expected in the coming years (childcare allowance and parental insurance).

To successfully carry out these missions, you can count on a team of three people, experienced and autonomous, at the head of which you ensure the maintenance of a culture of trust and responsibility, while accompanying them through upcoming evolutions.

Your profile

• Higher education at Master's level in economics, law, management, or public administration, ideally completed by training in finance or social insurance.
• At least 8 years of experience in a high-responsibility function, with excellent knowledge of Swiss social insurance and a good understanding of public administration and its institutional environment.
• Solid financial skills, allowing you to manage assets or supervise their management; experience in wealth management is an asset.
• Good knowledge of the Geneva economic fabric.
• Ability to anticipate, decide, and act with autonomy in complex environments, with an entrepreneurial and pragmatic posture.
• Human and empowering leadership, combined with discernment, conviction, integrity, and a marked sense of the general interest.
• Excellent writing skills in French. German is an asset.

Why join the Fonds cantonaux de compensation des allocations familiales et de l-assurance-maternité?

• For the impact and autonomy. A true General Management function, with wide latitude to propose, decide, and act on important issues for the Geneva economic and social fabric.
• For the richness of the function. Social insurance, finance, governance, and institutional relations coexist in an agile structure, where strategic vision and proximity to files go hand in hand.
• To accompany a new stage. Taking over a solid and recognized institution, preserving its fundamentals, and contributing to its next evolutions.

If you wish to put your experience, your leadership, and your vision at the service of an institution playing a key role in the Geneva social insurance<unused6226> system, we look forward to discovering your application (CV and cover letter) through our representative, Emmenegger Compétences Conseils SA.

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