About the Role and Your Responsibilities

The position is located at the Education Administration's office and reports to the Chief Financial Officer.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Responsible for the central financial work regarding adult education, international primary school, and mother tongue activities, involving qualified work with budgeting, follow-up, year-end accounts, preparation of forecasts, accounting, allocation of costs and reimbursements, as well as calculation of other allocations
Supporting the administration's principals, unit managers, and financial administrators in their work with financial follow-ups and analyses
Collaborating and supporting other municipalities and independent entities in matters related to the area of responsibility
Working with finances for the administration's office and making calculations and allocations of costs both within and outside the administration
Reporting statistics to SCB
Actively driving development work and participating in projects with financial connections
Preparing materials and writing texts for operational plans, interim reports, service letters, among others
Participating in the municipality's network for economists
Serving citizens and other stakeholders of the Education Administration with answers to questions

Additionally, you contribute to the unit's and education office's work through collaboration with colleagues to ensure backup and professional handling of cross-unit issues.

We are looking for someone who

Is driven to make a difference for those we serve, students and employees in core operations
Has a relevant degree in economics from a university or college
Has a high digital competence and extensive experience in advanced work in Excel and business systems
Has good competence and experience in accounting
Can make economics understandable and explain the connections between finance, personnel, and operations
Has a holistic view, is used to handling many parallel deadlines simultaneously, and works both structured and meticulously
Is analytical and has a good ability to see the big picture while being motivated to delve into details
Takes initiative and is driven to work persistently on improvements
Has good communicative and linguistic skills in Swedish, both orally and in writing

Experience in financial management within the public sector is advantageous, as is previous work with statistics.

In this recruitment, we are working with ongoing selection, so we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.

We offer you

As an employee with us, you will be offered a range of benefits focusing on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting activities and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you will also have access to our benefits portal where you can easily see and manage your benefits.
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About the Workplace

At the education office, about 50 people work with administrative issues such as finance, local supply, development and quality issues, HR, admissions, ICT, and student health. Our work environment is creative and stimulating with engaged colleagues from various professions collaborating to contribute to good quality and development of our operations. Trust, work joy, and helpfulness are living guiding principles in our daily work. Our workplace is located in central Lund.

The Education Administration is responsible for upper secondary school, adapted upper secondary school, adult education, international primary school, and mother tongue activities, employing over 1,200 staff. As an employee here, you are involved in providing high-quality education, with a strong commitment to our students. We prepare students for the future – with the goal that every student reaches their full potential as a person and citizen.

Here you have room to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we put knowledge at the center and create opportunities for development in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and a chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?