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About the Swedish Prison and Probation Service

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is growing – we are building new facilities, renovating, and expanding, and are now looking for more employees. Our most important goal is to reduce recidivism – to break the vicious cycle. If we succeed, society will become safer and more secure for everyone. We are the agency responsible for prisons, probation, remand prisons, and client transport.

The Service Center for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (KSC) supports the agency with personnel and economic administrative services, support functions, and the agency's switchboard function. The goal of KSC is to reduce administration for managers and client-facing staff through a combination of centralization and increased support.

The position is located within the Section for Personnel Administration. The section's work includes, among other things, payroll, personnel, and schedule administration, travel expenses, and reimbursements. As an employee in the section, you are offered a secure employment with good benefits. These include favorable holiday terms, flexible working hours, wellness benefits, and the possibility of remote work.

Job Description

In the role of Payroll Officer, you work with the ongoing tasks related to our payroll cycle, e.g., watch lists, error and signal lists, absence administration, and debts. You also work with registering employments, drawing up employment contracts, and creating certificates for various authorities. You are a support for employees and managers throughout the agency, both via our case management system and by phone. If you enjoy working to provide the best service and support our core operations, we hope you will apply to us. We encourage our employees to participate in developing our processes and working methods. The role of Payroll Officer may also include participation in various assignments regarding, for example, improvement work within our processes and internal controls.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who cooperate well with other people. You have interest, willingness, and ability to help others and strive to deliver solutions. You see the big picture and take the broader perspective into account. You are meticulous and well aware of goals and place great emphasis on meeting them. Furthermore, we see that you work well with complex issues. You analyze and solve complicated problems.

For us, it is important that you share the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's fundamental values regarding a humane view of humanity, respect for the individual, and belief in human will and ability to develop. You are also aware of and understand how background, culture, and group affiliation affect yourself and others. Furthermore, you are expected to contribute, through your attitude, to ensuring that everyone is treated equally. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We are looking for you who have:

• An academic or vocational higher education as a payroll specialist/payroll consultant, or experiences/qualifications assessed as equivalent.
• Experience in payroll administration, full or partial payroll cycle, in the near future.
• Ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish.
• Very good computer skills.

The following are also meritorious:

• Further education in labor law.
• Experience with the personnel system Heroma or another equivalent payroll system.
• Experience in personnel work within the public sector.
• Experience working with state collective agreements and payroll processes.
• Very good knowledge of the Office package.

Other

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has chosen to remove the personal cover letter and replaced it with selection questions relevant to the position. The answers to the selection questions and the CV form the basis for whether you are qualified to proceed in the process.

To be considered for employment within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, you must meet high requirements regarding suitability, judgment, security and confidentiality awareness, and that you follow applicable laws. This means that you stand up for democratic values and the state values that apply to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's operations.

Some positions are placed in security classes, and a security investigation with register check will be conducted before a decision on employment is made. For some security-classified positions, Swedish citizenship is required. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Read more about the security investigation here.

The position may involve war posting at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Read more about war posting here.

Individual salary setting applies.

Probationary employment may be applied.

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service strives for an even gender distribution and increased diversity.

To submit your application, click the application link in the advertisement. Questions about how to apply and upload your CV are directed to Varbi. Questions about specific jobs are answered by the contact person specified in the advertisement.

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of recruitment advertisements. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has procured agreements.