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About the Role

Do you want a key role where you can combine analysis, business understanding, and strategic support? We are now looking for a Financial Controller who wants to contribute to stable and forward-looking financial management within our organization.

As a Financial Controller, you play a central role in planning, follow-up, and development. You support managers and operations with financial matters, produce analyses and decision support materials, and work with accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial follow-up. Through your work, you contribute to well-founded decisions, efficient resource utilization, and management that supports the organization's goals.

In this role, you will work operationally in daily financial tasks while also maintaining a strategic perspective on the development of the business. With your analytical skills and holistic view, you identify areas for improvement, see connections, and contribute to solutions that strengthen both efficiency and quality.

As a Financial Controller, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Preparing, coordinating, and following up on budgets, forecasts, and financial plans
• Analyzing financial outcomes, key performance indicators (KPIs), and variances, and reporting results to managers and leadership
• Producing decision support materials, financial reports, and presentations to support business management
• Conducting accounting work and ensuring quality in financial processes and reporting
• Supporting managers with financial matters related to planning, follow-up, and resource allocation
• Collaborating with other functions and departments to help the organization achieve its financial goals
• Identifying areas for development and improvement in financial management, follow-up, and working methods

This is a position for someone with a strong interest in finance, driven by using analysis and insights to create value, support decision-making, and contribute to the sustainable development of the organization. You will become part of an engaged team where collaboration, professionalism, and development are in focus. Here, you will have the opportunity to influence, contribute your perspectives, and help develop our financial processes and working methods.

About You

We are looking for you who have a university degree in public administration, economics, or another university degree that the employer considers equivalent.

It is meritorious if you have experience in qualified financial work, preferably within financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. If you have previously worked for the City of Gothenburg or in other public administration, we view this as a plus. Experience or knowledge of social services is also considered meritorious. We also view it positively if you have experience working with BI tools.

You have the courage and ability to make your own decisions within the framework of your assignment without being dependent on others. You take responsibility for your tasks and drive the work forward.

You are motivated by clearly defined goals and have the ability to translate them into concrete action. With a focus on the goal, you can reprioritize work when conditions or needs change. You follow up and report on results and goal achievement.

You work well with others by listening, showing interest, and respect. You understand the common mission and work to make it as successful as possible.

You can see your work as part of a larger context and understand how it affects and is affected by other parts of the organization. You collaborate with others on overarching issues to create value. You take into account different sources of information and perspectives and can adapt others' ideas to your own operations.

You can effectively identify and analyze the core of a problem and propose possible solutions. You have the ability to see connections and draw logical conclusions from limited and/or complex information.

In this recruitment process, we will not ask for a cover letter. Instead, during the application process, you will be asked to answer a number of questions about your competence in the required area.

Other Information

In this recruitment process, we will not ask for a cover letter. Instead, during the application process, you will be asked to answer a number of questions relevant to the position. Your answers will become part of our selection process.

To comply with GDPR requirements and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or letter. Do you have protected personal data? If so, do not apply via the system; instead, contact the recruiting manager for handling your application.

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee of the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you have the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks.

As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers regarding competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

The recruitment process may take place continuously during the application period, which means that we may contact candidates before the final application deadline.

About Us

Social Services South West is one of four social services departments in the City of Gothenburg with around 900 employees. In the South West urban area, approximately 120,000 people live, and the area stretches from Billdal to Högsbohöjd and to the southern archipelago. The department's mission is to ensure that children, young people, and adults can live a secure and independent life and that children and young people have a rich leisure time. The department also works to support people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing. Through collaboration with civil society, local business, and other actors, we aim to increase public health and safety in the area.

In Social Services South West, we want to capitalize on the engagement of all employees. With us, you can influence both your own job and the lives of others.