Professional Department Manager Controlling – financial management, cost coverage, and cross-functional coordination

Professional Department Leader Controlling – financial management, cost coverage, and cross-functional coordination. Do you want to ensure solid financial management, transparency in cost coverage for professional systems, and create value through data and analysis?

We are looking for an engaged and structured department manager who will take daily responsibility for a finance function and become a central driving force in both the operation and development of our financial processes.

Your role

As department head, you have the professional and operational responsibility for financial tasks, coordinate across the organization and with management, and ensure timely, accurate, and transparent reporting.

Professional coordination responsibility without personnel management.

It is expected that you can work independently, prioritize your tasks, and make decisions within your area of responsibility – from planning to implementation and follow-up on results.

• Your main tasks Supportive financial function for DIA Management: Ensure regular monthly and ad hoc meetings with individual leaders focusing on sparring, data foundation, and decision proposals, including follow-up on financial activities and deadlines.
• Budget follow-up and financial reporting for the agency's departments, including controlling and reconciliations at month-end, quarter-end, and year-end.
• Internal control and compliance in financial processes as well as the preparation and quality assurance of guidelines for financial management.
• Reporting and stakeholder management: Assist management with mandatory budget follow-ups and contribute to the dialogue with the relevant ministry as well as other stakeholders in the central administration.
• Data-driven financial management: Develop key figures, simple models, and reports for decision-making proposals for management (e.g., scenarios, impact assessments, forecasts, and provide solution proposals).
• Grants and resources: Ensure an overview of grants and resource consumption to provide a robust data foundation for the grant and budget process.
• Cross-cutting coordination and project management of finance-related initiatives across the staff and areas/projects.
• Coordinator for the contract system: Responsible for the registration and updating of master data and contracts, management of workflows, date control, and follow-up on expirations/renewals.
• Attachment approval system – progress and quality: Ensure progress in workflows, including coding/first approvals, investigate errors and deficiencies (e.g., incomplete attachments/codings), engage in dialogue with the supplier if necessary, and make re-postings to another unit or account according to applicable guidelines.

• Cost coverage for professional systems (central area of responsibility) Organize and document the procedure for cost coverage of shared and individual professional systems.
• Quality assurance of distribution charges and assumptions (cost elements, distribution keys, accruals, etc.).
• Make collections after prior clarification with management in accordance with applicable legislation and internal guidelines.
• Ongoing guidance meetings with system owners: Plan and conduct regular/ad hoc meetings with system owners regarding their cost consumption, so that system owners and their respective departments ensure full cost coverage of the respective specialized systems.
• Advising and transparency: Guided the affected units on calculation and distribution per subject system, ensuring ongoing maintenance and security measures are fully funded and transparently documented.
• About you HK education in office/economics/administration or equivalent, and experience from a financial function in public administration or similar.
• Preferably experience as a coordinator, team/department leader, or equivalent with responsibility for financial processes.
• Secure routine in budgeting, controlling, and accounting, including understanding of cost allocation.
• Comfortable with ERP/accounting systems and wants to work with Business Intelligence (BI)
• Strong collaboration skills and clear, recipient-oriented communication – both to professional environments and management.
• Independent, proactive, and collaborative approach with a focus on quality and timeliness.
• Significant advantage that the applicant is proficient in Greenlandic and Danish in writing and speaking.
• Advantage that the applicant has documented experience with cross-cutting coordination functions between public entities.
• Structured and proactive with a focus on quality, deadlines, and continuous improvements.

Organizationally placed in DIA Staff with reference to the Director.

Workplace: Nuuk

Employment type: Full-time

 

Salary and employment conditions

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for joining and leaving, as well as relocation of personal belongings, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement in force at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

3 months probation period.

Housing

No staff housing is provided for the position. If an applicant already has staff housing through employment with the Self-Government, the right to the assigned staff housing is retained. The staff housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon termination of the employment relationship.

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