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Stockholm – our capital city full of millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Preschool Administration is a young administration with extensive collective knowledge and competence building the future. Tens of thousands of children attend preschools in Stockholm. Their daily lives and their future are our mission. We work for the best possible preschools and therefore maintain contact with all operators running preschools in Stockholm's eleven boroughs – whether they are municipally run or privately operated.

Currently, over 80 employees work with us across various expert areas such as supervision and permit assessment, law, finance, and development within all subject areas of the preschool sector. We offer a workplace with great commitment and good opportunities to influence your work. Our office is located on Kaplansbacken on Kungsholmen.

We are now looking for an administration-wide business controller for business planning and follow-up.

Welcome to us

The Preschool Administration consists of four departments: the authority department, the department for city-wide development, the department for finance and control, and the department for management support and IT. On the administration, we collaborate between departments to ensure our work provides the best possible service and development for all preschools in Stockholm.

As an administration-wide business controller, you report directly to the Director of the Administration.

We offer

We offer you a developing and varied role within the administration. Together with the administration strategist, you form a team that serves as the hub in the administration's work with business planning, follow-up, and coordination with the political leadership.

In addition, you will benefit from a large network within the City of Stockholm, good opportunities for professional development, flexible working hours, a wellness allowance, and the possibility of holiday exchange.

Read more about our benefits here: https://jobba.stockholm/formaner/ (https://jobba.stockholm/formaner/)

With us, you will contribute to a preschool where children's right to equal education is always in focus.

Your role as administration-wide business controller

The business controller's task is to provide the administration management with the best possible conditions for business planning, follow-up, and structured communication and dialogue regarding the preschool board's mission, together with the administration strategist.

You coordinate the administration's work with business planning and follow-up based on the city's system for integrated management and control. You are responsible for and follow up that content for, among other things, the business plan, quarterly reports, and business report is produced. You ensure that the administration delivers in the planning and follow-up process according to decisions and schedules, and that the documents follow the structure the city has set up for the work. The assignment includes helping to interpret, understand, and clarify both the civil service organization and the political perspective in various contexts.

Your role also includes conducting investigations as needed and responding to, for example, letters and consultations in the form of official statements, as well as writing reports.

To thrive in the role, it is important that you appreciate having both the coordinating responsibility and independently writing texts and compiling documents. The work requires good cooperation skills, high presence and listening skills, and quick and present handling of issues. It assumes you are accessible and work strategically rather than getting swept up in the sometimes high pace that may arise. The work is long-term, and you create structures that work even if conditions change as the administration grows or if political governance changes.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• A relevant university degree for the position
• Several years of experience working in a politically governed organization
• Current experience working with coordination, preparing cases, and writing official statements to the board
• Experience leading working groups and/or projects
• Worked with investigative tasks and carried out various types of analyses
• Very good ability to express yourself in the Swedish language both orally and in writing, as required in daily work
• High digital maturity, proficient user of the Office package and systems for control and management, such as Stratsys.

It is meritorious if you have experience in a corresponding role within municipal operations, preferably within the City of Stockholm.

During recruitment, we place great emphasis on your personal qualities and competencies. In the role of strategist, it is important that you are proactive, get things done, and have the ability to turn planning into activity that leads to desired results. You work in a structured and systematic manner and plan and prioritize work effectively based on set goals, structures, and schedules. You communicate clearly and professionally and find it easy to collaborate. To succeed in the role, it is important that you have good analytical skills, pay attention to details, and have the ability to find solutions with the whole and the broader perspective in focus. Furthermore, you have good linguistic analytical skills and produce high-quality documents.

Do you recognize yourself in the description above? Does this feel challenging and exciting? Then we want to know more about you, welcome with your application!

Other information

We recruit without a personal letter to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will base our evaluation on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. The application must be in Swedish. The recruitment process will consist of interviews, work psychological tests, and reference checks.

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at looking at each person's competence and thereby combating discrimination.