Economist at Vingåker Municipality

In the Vingåker region, we are close to each other, nature, and a wide range of cultural and leisure activities year-round. Here you will find rich cultural environments, good communications from nearby cities, and the country's largest outlet for branded clothing. Vingåker Municipality is developing the region and public services for the future.

The municipality's financial resources are centralized under the Finance Unit, which is organizationally part of the Municipal Executive Office. The Finance Unit primarily works with accounting, budgeting, financial monitoring, invoice processing, finance issues, financial guidelines, and procedures.

We are a small, stable unit with competence in all financial areas. The strength of our small size is that we can utilize each other's skills and interests in a flexible way. Our operations are constantly evolving, and as an employee, you have the opportunity to influence and shape our work. We offer the closeness and dialogue of a small operation where everyone, regardless of their primary role, takes responsibility for the whole and the common goal.

The Finance Unit is a cheerful team consisting of six employees: economists and financial clerks, led by the Finance Manager. We are working on the project "PowerBI – a tool for easier financial monitoring" for the municipality's managers, as well as "The Analyzing Economist" for internal competence development and collegial support. A continuous task is to simplify financial processes both within the Finance Unit and throughout the organization.

Together with the HR Unit, the IT and Communications Unit, and the Secretariat, the Finance Unit forms the municipality's central leadership support and serves as a service and support function for the entire municipal organization.

Job Description

One of our colleagues is moving on in life, so we are looking for you who want to take on this role with us! As an Economist, you hold an important function where you assist operational managers with questions regarding budgeting, accounting, financial analysis, and monthly monitoring. You act as a contact economist for both the Social Services Administration and the Community Development Administration, and you may participate in their respective leadership groups from time to time.

Furthermore, you will participate in municipality-wide financial issues, economic and operational management, as well as key figure comparisons and other common tasks within the Finance Unit.

You will participate in the development of the municipality's financial processes to create a stable and efficient financial function. As an Economist with us, there are good opportunities to be challenged and develop professionally.

We encourage innovative thinking and actively work to be a modern workplace where people can grow. Our core values; dare, responsibility, respect, and pride, are actively integrated into our daily work.

As an Economist with us, you are offered great opportunities to influence your workday, and you have a job that directly impacts strategic and operational financial work.

The position includes, among other things, the following tasks:

• Support for operational managers in financial and development work
• Accounting and monitoring of state grants and projects
• Statistics and key figure comparisons
• Reconciliations

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have an academic education in economics or another education that the employer deems equivalent. We see that you need to have worked with similar tasks for a few years, and if you have worked in public sector operations, it is highly meritorious.

Good knowledge of the Office package, especially Excel, is required, and preferably experience from financial systems. If you have previous experience working in Visma Publitech and Stratsys, it is meritorious.

We place great emphasis on providing qualified financial services to our elected officials and administrations. You must be able to work independently and with a results-oriented approach. Therefore, we have high demands on your personal qualities, your initiative, your service orientation, and your ability to collaborate. The role requires that you have a holistic view, are strategic, and have a long-term and broad perspective on issues. You are structured and plan, prioritize, and follow up on your tasks in an efficient manner. You have the ability to identify problems, analyze, and find solutions. We see that you are communicative and pedagogical, and that you have an easy time formulating yourself in Swedish in speech and writing.

What We Offer

• Salary: Monthly salary
• Employment type: Permanent position
• Duration: Permanent
• Working hours: Daytime

The appointment to the position will be based on the information you provide, so it is of utmost importance that you are careful when filling out your application. We see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

We make active choices regarding advertising platforms, possible support, and selection methods for each recruitment. When we have published an advertisement, we will therefore not purchase services or advertisements for an ongoing recruitment, which is why we decline such contacts.