Vacant job

Responsible for collaboration and digitalization of systems and services that are common to the entire Church of Sweden.

The Church of Sweden is where people are. Close to where you live and on the other side of the world. Everywhere we are there for you who want and need – in loneliness, crisis, joy and sorrow, in important events and in everyday life. Regardless of who you are and what faith you have. At the Church Chancery, approx. 500 people work within a wide range of professions, at the forefront of our areas of knowledge. Together we work on issues that are common to the entire Church of Sweden. In this way, we strengthen the Church's ability to meet today's challenges and contribute to peace, justice and a sustainable society.

The Church of Sweden's Economic Service is now looking for Economists

to Uppsala

Our operations

We continue to grow and are now looking for experienced economists for our office in Uppsala. Here you will work in a consultative capacity in a broad economic role and in a meaningful context. You have a good accounting background and experience working as an economic manager, controller or similar.

The Church of Sweden's Economic Service offers economic support to parishes, pastorates and dioceses in the Church of Sweden, both in the form of ongoing management and qualified support. We are organized in geographical units and are located in nine different places around the country. In the role of economist, you work with parishes, pastorates and dioceses primarily in your respective local area but also in other parts of the country.

We are on an exciting journey of change where we are developing both our working methods and collaboration within the Economic Service. We continuously work on refining and digitalizing our ways of working and are facing, among other things, an update of our working methods with the introduction of new processes and new system support.

Job responsibilities

As an economist, you work with qualified economic tasks and serve as a support in economic management and follow-up. This involves work with, among other things:

• budget, accounts and reporting
• preparation of reports, analyses and decision support
• project work within the economic service

You work closely with parish priests, management and other contact persons in parishes, pastorates and dioceses, and also present the economy for elected officials in church councils and church assemblies. The relationship and contact with the parishes is important. Other tasks related to economic processes may also be included in the position, for example development projects within the economic services.

You work independently but have colleagues in similar roles close by to collaborate with. In the work groups, we value collaboration, helping each other and jointly taking responsibility for the whole. The work varies in intensity throughout the month and year, which means you need to work flexibly and task-oriented.

Our parishes, pastorates and dioceses appreciate that we are locally anchored, while at the same time developing common working methods for the benefit of the entire Church of Sweden.

We are looking for you who

• have a degree in economics, preferably with a focus on accounting or controller function, or other education/experience that we assess as equivalent.
• have several years of experience working within accounting, budgeting, accounts, annual accounts and tax return work.
• are familiar with administrative systems and have good computer skills with a modern digital working method in relation to economic systems.
• are used to working independently with accounts, budget, reconciliations and economic analysis.
• have a B driving license.

We would like you to have worked in a similar role delivering services to external actors or customers. Experience from the business systems Microsoft Dynamics and/or Hypergene as well as system changes are meritorious.

You are an important employee

It is important that you enjoy working with us and that we enjoy working with you. For a successful match, we see that you are a flexible, structured and non-hierarchical person. It is important that you are comfortable in meetings with parishes/pastorates and work in a service-oriented manner. You have good pedagogical and communicative skills, are solution-oriented and have an understanding of your own role in the larger whole. You have critical thinking and analytical skills to identify and solve problems. Seeing opportunities for improvement and enjoying collaboration are prerequisites.

We offer

We offer a fun and developmental job where there are great opportunities to develop within the organization. The working environment is important to us, we value a good community at the workplace and value a sustainable working life with the possibility of working from home a couple of days a week. We have collective agreements, annual working time agreements, fitness allowance, fitness hour and lunch benefit.

Permanent full-time position with immediate effect or according to agreement.

More information

Welcome to contact the unit manager

Magnus Sahlin, Unit Manager Economic Service ÖST, Uppsala:

[email protected] phone 018-169687

Union representatives: Siri Troili (Vision), Malin Andrén (Akavia) and Andreas Sandberg (KyrkA).

At the Church Chancery, we conduct background checks in our recruitment process for certain positions (always within IT) to create as quality-assured a process as possible.

Application

Welcome to submit your application by June 7, 2026.

We apply the principle of public access in our recruitment process. This means that application documents submitted become public documents and can be requested by the public. Read more about the Church of Sweden's principle of public access here.

We have made our choice for this recruitment and therefore decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.