Economist at Varberg Municipality – Creating Conditions for Future Learning

We are Varberg Municipality, the employer that sees the potential in you. Here you get to make a difference, both for others and for yourself. We are driven by the idea of simplifying people's daily lives and realizing their dreams. We do this through knowledge, innovative courage, and a forward-looking spirit. Welcome to contribute to our vision – to become the creative hub of the west coast.

The Preschool and Primary School Administration is one of Varberg Municipality's largest departments, with nearly 2,200 employees. Within our areas of preschool, primary school, and child/student health services, we are here for children and students – together we shape the future.

The administration's central office is located in the heart of Varberg, within comfortable walking distance from the train station. Here, we work close to the operations and play a vital role in ensuring order, transparency, and quality in the administration's processes.

As an economist, you will work in an environment where your skills truly make a difference for children and students. There is also close proximity to both the operations and colleagues who, like you, contribute to creating structure, transparency, and quality in the municipality's processes.

Your expertise will become an important part of the work that ultimately makes a difference for children and students in Varberg Municipality.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

As an economist with us, you will have a role that ultimately is about creating good conditions for children's future and the best possible meeting for learning. By ensuring sound economics, you contribute to resources landing where they do the greatest good for our operations.

You will be based at our central office in central Varberg and become part of a professional economics team that supports each other to contribute to structure, transparency, and quality in the administration's processes.

We offer a workplace where numbers and analysis meet a meaningful day-to-day life close to the operations. As a qualified support for principals and managers, you combine operational tasks with an analytical eye to ensure that our resources are used effectively.

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for budgeting, forecasting, follow-up, and final accounts within the administration's operations.
• Conduct economic analyses and investigations that provide managers with a stable and quality-assured decision-making basis.
• Act as an advisory link between economics and pedagogical operations by providing pedagogical economic support to principals and managers.
• Actively participate in developing the administration's economic processes, routines, and working methods for a transparent organization.
• Collaborate with colleagues in HR and the central office to create a holistic and high-quality administrative support.

QUALIFICATIONS

To thrive in the role of economist with us, you have a solution-oriented drive and the ability to see the big picture without losing the details. You are a confident professional who, with warmth and clarity, provides guidance and makes economic information understandable and usable for our managers. For you, collaboration with other professions is a prerequisite for success; you collaborate without hierarchy to reach our common goals together with the operation's leadership.

You have a structured working method and confidence in independently prioritizing your tasks, even during periods of higher workload such as year-end closing. You show judgment in your analyses and act as a stable support in the administration's economic processes.

We place great emphasis on you having a genuine commitment to your assignment and that your personality and driving forces match our culture and values.

We are looking for you who:

• Have a university degree in economics (minimum 180 credits) or equivalent education that we assess as comparable.
• Have experience in qualified economic work with good knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and analysis.
• Have very good knowledge of Excel and experience working in modern business systems.
• Can express yourself simply, clearly, and correctly in both speech and writing.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience working in a politically governed organization.
• Experience with business systems such as Hypergene or Proceedo.
• Previous experience in providing pedagogical economic support to managers and leadership groups.

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-09-07. Start date according to agreement.

To ensure your application functions correctly in our recruitment system, we ask all applicants, including internal candidates, to use their private email address when applying.

Varberg Municipality welcomes diversity and sees differences as a strength. We hope that you, as an applicant, can contribute with your background and competence.

Welcome to read more about what it is like to work with us at: varberg.se/jobb (https://varberg.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete/till-dig-som-ska-borja-hos-oss)

Before employment, you must be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden, for example through citizenship within the EU/EEA/Switzerland or a valid permit to reside and work here, or an exemption from this.