Support Services Departments that provide a service

Members of staff – Financial Controlling act as a service provider and advisor to the University's senior management. Each of the Schools has a financial controller at its disposal. They advise members of the senior management and project managers on budgetary aspects, project calculations, current actual/target analyses and business administration matters.  

Members of staff – Accounting ensure that the key performance indicators are based on fact. Issuing invoices and reminders, logging and paying incoming invoices, keeping ledgers and managing liquidity are just some of the activities for which they is responsible. 

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HR officers provide a range of standard personnel-related services. These include hiring employees, employee evaluation, payment, development and overseeing resignations and retirement. They help managers on HR policy matters, deal with queries from staff and monitor the organisation's change processes.

Members of staff - Salary and Personnel Administration staff participate in all HR processes. They manage and process personnel and salary data and act as a resource for matters concerning remuneration, social insurances and personnel administration. 

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The department is specialised in maintenance, application support, engineering and application development. Employees, students, course attendees and external speakers at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have access to a central help desk. The IT services are also used by the University of Teacher Education Lucerne, the Swiss-German Education Directors' Conference, the University of Lucerne and the Lucerne Central and University Library (ZHB).  

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The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts runs large numbers of business applications such as the intranet, its website, the Evento school administration programme and the SAP time logging system. These programmes are administered and improved by Business Applications on a continuous basis. 

Once a project has reached its successful conclusion, the IT Services Department is responsible for providing support for its applications.

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Acquisition of properties covers strategic infrastructure planning in association with the Executive Board and the five cantons, conducting requirement analyses, developing usage concepts, and searching for and acquiring premises. The Facility Management department also administers the rental contracts of all the sites and supervises conversion, refurbishment and new-build works from the phase of budgeting to completion.

When it comes to room administration, the department assumes a coordinating role. It works with the Schools to develop concepts for the use, administration and letting of rooms and equipment and their marketing. 

The Facility Services operates and maintains the buildings, green spaces, vehicles and technical facilities of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and ensures that the organisation functions smoothly in terms of its infrastructure, technical facilities, logistics and cleaning. 

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