The Ministry of Finance and Personnel is seeking a service-minded office manager for Payroll Services.

The Ministry of Finance and Personnel is looking for a service-minded office manager for Payroll Services

Are you good at deciphering workflows? Are you quick to create an overview, but also have a great sense for detail? Do you have knowledge of "Akissarsiat"? And are you the type who can motivate during long days? Then maybe you are the one who should be the next office manager for the Ministry of Finance and Personnel's Office for Payroll Services.

The office processes approximately 11,000 payroll payments per month to monthly salaried employees, hourly workers, and certain pensioners within the Government of Greenland and the Health Sector. Your closest collaborators will be the Human Resources Department, the Central Accounting Department, the Management Secretariat, and your immediate supervisor, the Head of Human Resources and Negotiations. You and your office with about 12 employees will also work closely with all units in the Government of Greenland.

In recent years, there has been and continues to be a focus on streamlining workflows through, among other things, the introduction of operational manuals, digitization of forms, use of e-boxes, etc. Therefore, this is a challenging job that requires both focus and systematic approaches as well as the ability to optimize your own work area.

Your tasks

As an office manager, you have daily personnel and professional management responsibility for the employees in the office. You need to create direction and overview in task execution, prioritize resources, and ensure high professional quality and timely delivery. At the same time, the office manager position is a working leadership position where you are expected to actively participate in the office's professional task resolution.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading, prioritizing, and coordinating the office's daily work
• Ensuring employee development and well-being
• Ensuring quality in production and effective resolution of the office's core tasks
• Ensuring continued development of internal workflows and processes
• Ensuring good contact and a high level of satisfaction among internal and external customers.

Your professional qualifications

• A relevant professional education and management experience
• Experience working in the personnel administrative field
• Experience with the regulations for accounting and payroll within public administration
• In-depth knowledge of and preferably practical experience with the payroll system "Akissarsiat"

Your personal competencies

• Good collaboration skills and can build relationships across the organization and the Government's units
• Creates a good environment for employee well-being, professional development, responsibility, and independence
• Patient and able to encourage a high performance level among your employees, especially during peak periods
• Results-oriented, decisive, and can work under pressure
• Positive and approachable, good at communicating and motivating the organization around you
• Proficient in the Greenlandic language in writing and speaking

We offer

ASA is a large workplace focused on professionalism, digitization, optimization of work processes, and cross-functional collaboration. You will have good opportunities to develop your leadership through the Central Administration's leadership development programs while also strengthening your professionalism in payroll accounting and the personnel administrative field. You will experience and must dare to have a significant degree of influence on the development of tasks in the payroll area. In the payroll office, we have an informal tone and a good collegial spirit even in pressured work situations.

About us

The Office for Payroll Services is part of the Ministry of Finance and Personnel (ASA), which is an agency under the Department of Finance. ASA has about 110 employees, including interns, temporary workers, and student assistants. You can read more about ASA at www.asa.gl. In the payroll office, we have an informal tone and a good collegial spirit even in pressured work situations.

Further information

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the Head of Human Resources and Negotiations, Frederik Schmidt, at tel. +299 346681, email fsch@nanoq.gl.

Applicants must be prepared to undergo a testing process.

Application deadline

The application deadline is November 12, 2026.

Start date

Start date is December 1, 2026, or by further agreement.

Employment conditions
The position is currently salaried corresponding to 36. The salary with fixed salary components and your contribution to pension in LR 36 amounts to DKK 57,531 monthly and DKK 690,372 annually as of April 1, 2026.

Initially, employment will be on collective agreement terms, where an applicant who is already a civil servant under the civil servant laws for public Greenland may be employed on civil servant terms.

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to relocation and moving expenses, according to the collective agreement in force at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization. Civil servants in the state and employees under a number of AC agreements, including the agreement between DJØF and the Ministry of Finance, have the right to unpaid leave in connection with employment under the Government of Greenland. The Ministry of Home Affairs has also urged municipalities and regions to show willingness to grant applications for unpaid leave in connection with employment under the Government of Greenland. The provisions on unpaid leave also apply to spouses/partners of individuals employed under the Government of Greenland.

The working hours are initially 40 hours per week, and there is a commitment of 320 hours annually and 80 hours quarterly, and the provisions for compensation for lost days off do not apply.
 

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

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