Business Controller at the Swedish Food Agency

Do you want to take on a central role in driving and being responsible for the Swedish Food Agency's operational planning and follow-up, contributing to safe food and sustainable food consumption? Are you interested in how statistics and follow-up can improve operations? We are looking for someone with experience as a business controller who wants to help develop our governance, planning, and follow-up.

Your Role

As a business controller in the director general's office, you will work from a cross-agency perspective and be responsible for planning and following up the agency's operations together with your colleagues. Your role is to support the director general, agency management, and other key functions in strategic governance. In your assignment, you will focus on creating, developing, and driving various processes for the agency's governance. You will closely collaborate with various support and management functions.

A key part of your responsibilities is to develop goal and result management, analyze and follow up on operations, and write documentation and reports. You will prepare and present various types of cases for the agency management. Since your work touches many parts of the agency, collaboration and cooperation are crucial in your role and a prerequisite for succeeding in the assignment.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Leading, coordinating, and developing processes such as operational planning, quarterly follow-ups, and annual reports
• Developing the follow-up of indicators, key figures, and decision-making documentation, particularly within the agency's prioritized areas of focus
• Leading and coordinating various networks to develop the operations
• Creating conditions for the follow-up, reporting, and decision-making of operations
• Administering, supporting, and developing work methods in our support tool Stratsys for operational planning and follow-up

Together with your colleagues, you will take responsibility for the agency's common assignments and resources as well as the needs of target groups. Furthermore, you will make thoughtful prioritizations in your work and deliver according to set goals. You will monitor the external environment to gather new perspectives, maintain relevant competence, and adapt your work to the agency's requirements and conditions.

Director General's Office

The office provides strategic and administrative support to the director general and agency management. The office is responsible for supporting the agency with operational planning and follow-up and contributing to the agency achieving results and set goals. On behalf of the director general, the office will lead and support strategic change and development work within sustainability, innovation, and facilitating for businesses. The annual report, budget documentation, and the government assignments assigned to the Swedish Food Agency are coordinated by the office. The office's work should contribute to high efficiency, quality, and results for the agency. The office consists of the head of the office, the director general's secretary, operational coordinators, business developers, and business controllers.

Your Competence

We are looking for someone with an academic degree in, for example, political science, economics, or another area deemed relevant by the employer. You must have current and several years of experience in a similar role focusing on operational governance, analysis, and overall management support. We want you to have experience working in public administration, and it is an advantage if you have experience with state governance. You have good experience in developing and managing follow-up models in complex organizations. To be successful in the job, you need to be accustomed to working in digital systems for operational governance. You must have very good language skills in Swedish and good knowledge of English in both speech and writing.

Your Personal Qualities

You thrive in a coordinating and advisory role where you work both strategically and operationally. You enjoy working both independently and together with others and see collaboration as a key to success. To succeed in your work, you act responsibly, collaboratively, and developmentally. You are solution-focused and invite and are open to collaborations and new perspectives that improve our deliveries. You enjoy working in a team and are open to new working methods and share knowledge and lessons to strengthen our collective ability.

Welcome to Contact Us

You are welcome to contact the recruiting manager Hanna Dufva. The representative for Saco-S is Åsa Eneroth and for ST Annie Gozzi. All can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

The application deadline is 2025-04-20. Apply via the job advertisement on Available Jobs (livsmedelsverket.se), marking your application with diary number 2025/01493. The application must be written in Swedish.

More Information About the Position

Employment form: Permanent, Full-time. We apply a 6-month probationary period.

Start date: Immediately, by agreement

Organizational affiliation: Director General's Office

Location: Uppsala

All permanent staff at the Swedish Food Agency are assigned to the agency in case of war.

Before the Interview

Bring grades, certificates, and ID documents that support your application to a possible interview.

Welcome with your application!

This recruitment is conducted entirely by the Swedish Food Agency. We therefore decline phone calls from recruitment companies and advertisement sellers.

We will base our assessment on the information available in the application documents, so please be clear in describing how you meet the qualifications.

Why the Swedish Food Agency

Food and drinking water affect everyone in one way or another, and interest in both food itself and the work of the Swedish Food Agency is very high.

At the Swedish Food Agency, we contribute to ensuring that food and drinking water are safe for Sweden's consumers, that no one is deceived about what food contains, and to sustainable food consumption. The Swedish Food Agency is involved in building Sweden's civil defense and has a key role in ensuring a robust food and drinking water supply.

At the Swedish Food Agency, we work efficiently and with quality assurance, and all employees, leaders, and managers take joint responsibility for the agency's mission and development from a holistic perspective. Through our shared leadership, we promote engagement and learning.