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The Church of Sweden's Economic Service is looking for a Business Developer in Finance – procurement, customer orders and payment processes

Our operations

The Church of Sweden's Economic Service offers financial 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 are developing 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.

About the position

As a Business Developer in Finance, you work close to the business within the management of the Economic Service, focusing on procurement to payment and customer order to payment. The role involves developing, managing and maintaining uniform and efficient order and payment processes with the support of common systems, data and working methods.

The role combines responsibility for development in management with participation in projects, new connections and change work, and involves close collaboration with the business, IT and external suppliers.

Tasks

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

• Work close to the business with the development and management of order and payment processes (procurement to payment and customer order to payment)
• Contribute to support work and the connection 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.
• Identify needs and improvement proposals, evaluate utility in relation to investment and break down decided changes into requirements in collaboration with the business
• Be the business's representative towards IT, suppliers and projects
• Work together with colleagues within the Economic Service, the IT section and suppliers
• Contribute to the management work as an object specialist within transaction-oriented financial processes, e.g. supplier accounting, customer accounting and payment flows
• Contribute to the creation and updating of governing documents, routines and training materials

We are looking for you who have

• An academic education in economics or other education that the employer considers relevant
• At least five years of experience working with financial flows, for example within supplier or customer accounting, procurement, invoicing and payments
• Work experience from, and understanding of, transaction processes, system support and working methods that collaborate for quality, efficiency and control
• Ability to see the big picture and understand the consequences of changes in larger processes (how work is organized in flows, e.g. from procurement to payment) and system landscapes.
• Ability to analyze, take responsibility for deliveries and work structured even when tasks vary
• Good communication skills and enjoy collaboration in cross-functional teams

Meritorious is experience of working in Microsoft's financial systems (Dynamics or Business Central), with approval flows and invoicing solutions and surrounding system support. You are welcome to have worked with business development or process development within the financial area as well as system configuration, data control and master data management. We would like you to have experience from shared service and business work in projects, change management or new connections to financial management (preferably for the Church of Sweden's economic service), digitized service development and to translate business requirements into feasible changes.

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 building trust in collaboration with colleagues, business and external parties.

We offer

We offer a fun and developing work 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 of working from home to some extent. 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 Office, economic service, has operations.

More information

Welcome to contact Anna Edling, Head of Unit Business Development and Management; [email protected]

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

For some positions (always within IT) we conduct background checks in our recruitment process.

Application

Welcome to submit your application by June 16, 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.

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