Professional Department Leader Controlling

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 a department manager, 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 finance function for DIA Management: Ensure regular monthly as well as 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 and 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 subject 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 reclassifications to another unit or account according to applicable guidelines.

• Organize and document the procedure for cost coverage of shared and individual subject 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 about their cost consumption, so that system owners and their respective departments ensure full cost coverage of the respective specialist systems.
• Advising and transparency: Guided affected units on calculation and distribution per subject system, so ongoing maintenance and security measures are fully funded and transparently documented.

• 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 will 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.

Workplace: Nuuk

Employment type: Full-time

Salary and employment conditions

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for joining and leaving and 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 housing is provided for the position. If an applicant already has housing through employment in the Self-Government, the right to the assigned housing is retained. The housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon the termination of the employment relationship.

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About the Government of Greenland

If you are looking for challenges and want to influence everyday life through your work and help shape the future, then a job with the Government of Greenland is for you.

We expect a high level of responsibility and value professional qualifications, a healthy analytical approach to things, and adaptability in our employees. Additionally, your ability to structure your day-to-day activities and maintain an overview is important.

The Government of Greenland consists of a Central Administration with more than 650 employees spread across several departments, as well as a number of decentralized units. Together, we are more than 2500 people associated with the Government of Greenland. The task of the Central Administration is to provide the Naalakkersuisut (government) with a solid political decision-making basis and to implement the political decisions.

You can read more about Greenland's Self-Government at http://www.naalakkersuisut.gl/job

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