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Responsible for collaboration and digitalization of systems and services 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 the challenges of the times and contribute to peace, justice and a sustainable society.

The Church of Sweden's Economic Service is looking for a Business Developer

- Accounting, budgeting and fixed assets

Our operations

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. We are on an exciting journey of change where we develop both our working methods and cooperation within the Economic Service. We continuously work on refining and digitizing 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.

The job entails

As a Business Developer for Economics, you work close to the business within the administration of the Economic Service. The focus is on developing, administering and maintaining uniform and sustainable economic processes within accounting, budget/prognosis and fixed assets, supported by common systems, data and working methods.

The position combines responsibility for development in administration with participation in projects, new connections and change work, and involves close cooperation with the business, IT and external suppliers.

Job duties

Within the framework of the position, you will among other things:

• Work close to the business with the development and administration of economic processes within accounting, budget/prognosis and fixed assets
• Contribute to support work as well as new connections of parishes, dioceses and other units to the Economic Service
• Participate in and drive investigations, projects and development initiatives related to the Economic Service
• Develop standardized working methods and model processes
• Capture needs and improvement proposals, evaluate utility in relation to investment and break down decided changes into requirements in close collaboration with the business
• Act as the business's representative towards IT, suppliers and projects
• Work closely together with colleagues within the Economic Service, the IT section and suppliers
• Contribute to the administration work as an object specialist within relevant parts of the economic area
• Contribute to the production and updating of governing documents, routines and training materials

We are looking for you who have

• academic education in economics or other education that the employer deems relevant
• at least five years of experience in qualified work as an economist
• good knowledge of accounting and experience of multidimensional accounting
• ability to see the big picture and understand how processes, systems and working methods interact to create quality and efficiency
• ability to analyze, take responsibility for deliveries and work structured even when work tasks vary
• good communication skills and thrive in collaboration in cross-functional teams

Meritorious is experience of working in Microsoft's economic systems (Dynamics or Business Central) and/or Hypergene, with approval flows and invoicing solutions and surrounding system support. You are welcome to have worked with business development, or process development, within the economic area as well as system configuration, data control and master data management. We would like you to have experience from shared service, work in administration, projects and change leadership. If you have worked with new connections within church economic management (preferably for the Church of Sweden's economic service), digitized service development and with turning business requirements into feasible changes, we see this as 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 secure, structured and solution-oriented. You are curious, unpretentious and have an easy time creating trust in collaboration with colleagues, business and external parties.

We offer

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

Permanent full-time position with immediate effect or as agreed.

Location - Uppsala or possibly another location where the Church Chancery/Economic Service has operations.

More information

Welcome to contact Unit Manager Anna Edling, Unit Manager Business Development and Administration; [email protected]

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

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

Application

Welcome with your application no later than June 16, 2026.

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

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