{"data":{"id":177598,"slug":"enhetschef-ekonomi","type":"job","title":"Head of Finance","description":"Karlstadsregionen's water begins operations on January 1, 2027. We are a municipal water and wastewater company owned by Forshaga, Hammar\u00f6, Karlstad, and Kil. Our mission is to deliver drinking water, treat wastewater, and manage stormwater in our four owner municipalities. We work toward sustainable community development and a future with clean lakes and watercourses.\nWe are Karlstadsregionen's water \u2013 a new company that brings together the strength of four organizations to manage one of society's most important tasks: delivering crystal-clear drinking water, treating wastewater, and managing rainwater.\nWe do this every day of the year for over 120,000 people in our four owner municipalities\u2014Forshaga, Hammar\u00f6, Karlstad, and Kil. We keep society functioning and make our customers' daily lives a little easier, but our mission is greater than that. We lay the foundation for a sustainable future for both people and the environment.\nJoin us on an exciting journey where we not only build something new together, but also create sustainable water and wastewater solutions for future generations. Here you have the space to grow, make an impact, and contribute your ideas while doing work that is truly important to society.\nDescription\nWe are now seeking a Head of Finance who wants to be part of the journey from the start and build a modern and operationally integrated finance function. You will have the opportunity to combine financial leadership with operational work while shaping processes, approaches, and collaboration in a brand new organization.\nTogether with your team, you will create conditions for stable finances, well-founded decisions, and sustainable investments in an operation with an important societal mission.\nAs Head of Finance, you will be responsible for leading and developing the company's finance function and will be part of the company's management team. The unit is responsible for financial management and monitoring, accounting, billing, and rate-setting.\nYou will initially lead six employees, several of whom will be newly hired. The first years will largely involve establishing a well-functioning finance function and building good collaboration with the owner municipalities' finance functions. Therefore, the role is operationally oriented and requires you to be actively involved in operational financial work while driving development forward.\nAn important responsibility is to further develop financial management, strengthen forecasting work, increase the organization's financial awareness, and lead the development of the rate model and long-term rate analyses.\nKey Responsibilities\nYou are responsible for the company's budget, forecasting, monitoring, and financial statement processes, and you ensure good financial control and reporting. You prepare analyses and decision documents for management, the board, and owners, and provide the business with support on financial matters.\nYour responsibilities also include accounting, billing and revenue processes, water and wastewater rates, liquidity planning, and finance-related procurement processes. You support planning and monitoring of investments, including investment calculations and fixed asset accounting, and participate in financing matters. You coordinate financial reporting, audit, and rate matters with the owner municipalities.\nQualifications\nWe are looking for someone with an academic degree in finance or equivalent education combined with relevant work experience. You have several years of experience in qualified financial work and broad competence in budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, and financial monitoring.\nYou have strong analytical abilities and can translate financial information into clear decision documents for both management and operations. You express yourself very well in Swedish, both orally and in writing, and thrive in a role that combines operational work with strategic and long-term development perspective.\nIf you have experience with water and wastewater finance and a good understanding of the specific economic conditions that apply to water and wastewater operations, where the business is governed by the Water Services Act and its principles, we consider that a strong advantage.\nIt is meriting if you have:\nexperience from water and wastewater operations, other rate-financed operations, municipality, or municipal company\nexperience with development and change work within the finance field\n\nPersonal Qualities\nWe place great importance on your personal qualities. You are analytical, structured, and solution-oriented, and you naturally build trust and good relationships. You enjoy developing work approaches together with others and feel confident taking responsibility and driving matters forward.\nPrevious management experience is meriting, but not required. What is more important is that you have a natural leadership ability and the capacity to create engagement and get people to work toward common goals.\nOther Information\nInformation about salary levels can be found here (select \"See salary statistics\"). This recruitment pertains to AID code 101011.\nWarm welcome with your application!\nWhen you apply with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer several questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested areas. This means you should not attach a cover letter as part of your application.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Enhetschef ekonomi","description_original":"Karlstadsregionens vatten startar verksamheten 1 januari 2027. Vi \u00e4r ett kommunalt VA-bolag som \u00e4gs av Forshaga, Hammar\u00f6, Karlstad och Kil. V\u00e5rt uppdrag \u00e4r att leverera dricksvatten, rena avloppsvatten och ta hand om dagvatten i v\u00e5ra fyra \u00e4garkommuner. Vi arbetar f\u00f6r h\u00e5llbar samh\u00e4llsutveckling och en framtid med rena sj\u00f6ar och vattendrag.\nVi \u00e4r Karlstadsregionens vatten \u2013 ett nytt bolag som samlar fyra organisationers kraft i en f\u00f6r att sk\u00f6ta ett av samh\u00e4llets viktigaste uppdrag: Att leverera glasklart dricksvatten, rena avloppsvatten och ta hand om regnvatten.\nDet g\u00f6r vi varje dag \u00e5ret om \u00e5t drygt 120 000 m\u00e4nniskor i v\u00e5ra fyra \u00e4garkommuner Forshaga, Hammar\u00f6, Karlstad och Kil. Vi f\u00e5r samh\u00e4llet att fungera och g\u00f6r v\u00e5ra kunders vardag lite enklare, men uppdraget st\u00f6rre \u00e4n s\u00e5. Vi l\u00e4gger grunden till en h\u00e5llbar framtid f\u00f6r b\u00e5de m\u00e4nniskor och milj\u00f6.\nF\u00f6lj med oss p\u00e5 en sp\u00e4nnande resa d\u00e4r vi inte bara bygger n\u00e5got nytt tillsammans, utan ocks\u00e5 h\u00e5llbara vatten- och avloppsl\u00f6sningar f\u00f6r kommande generationer. H\u00e4r f\u00e5r du plats att v\u00e4xa, p\u00e5verka och bidra med dina id\u00e9er samtidigt som du g\u00f6r ett jobb som \u00e4r samh\u00e4llsviktigt p\u00e5 riktigt.\nBeskrivning\nNu s\u00f6ker vi en enhetschef ekonomi som vill vara med fr\u00e5n b\u00f6rjan och bygga upp en modern och verksamhetsn\u00e4ra ekonomifunktion. Du f\u00e5r m\u00f6jlighet att kombinera ekonomiskt ledarskap med ett operativt arbete och samtidigt forma processer, arbetss\u00e4tt och samverkan i en helt ny organisation.\nTillsammans med dina medarbetare skapar du f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningar f\u00f6r en stabil ekonomi, v\u00e4lgrundade beslut och h\u00e5llbara investeringar i en verksamhet med ett viktigt samh\u00e4llsuppdrag.\nSom Enhetschef Ekonomi ansvarar du f\u00f6r att leda och utveckla bolagets ekonomifunktion och ing\u00e5r i bolagets ledningsgrupp. Enheten ansvarar f\u00f6r ekonomistyrning och uppf\u00f6ljning, redovisning, debitering och taxa.\nDu leder inledningsvis sex medarbetare, varav flera nyanst\u00e4llda. De f\u00f6rsta \u00e5ren handlar i stor utstr\u00e4ckning om att etablera en v\u00e4l fungerande ekonomifunktion och skapa bra samverkan med \u00e4garkommunernas ekonomifunktioner. Rollen \u00e4r d\u00e4rf\u00f6r n\u00e4ra verksamheten och inneb\u00e4r att du sj\u00e4lv \u00e4r delaktig i det operativa ekonomiarbetet samtidigt som du driver utvecklingen fram\u00e5t.\nEtt viktigt uppdrag \u00e4r att vidareutveckla ekonomistyrningen, st\u00e4rka prognosarbetet och \u00f6ka organisationens ekonomiska medvetenhet, samt driva utvecklingen av taxemodellen och l\u00e5ngsiktiga taxeanalyser.\nArbetsuppgifter\nDu ansvarar f\u00f6r bolagets budget-, prognos-, uppf\u00f6ljnings- och bokslutsprocesser och s\u00e4kerst\u00e4ller en god ekonomisk kontroll och rapportering. Du tar fram analyser och beslutsunderlag f\u00f6r ledning, styrelse och \u00e4gare samt ger verksamheten st\u00f6d i ekonomiska fr\u00e5gor.\nI uppdraget ing\u00e5r \u00e4ven ansvar f\u00f6r redovisning, debitering och int\u00e4ktsprocesser, VA-taxor, likviditetsplanering och ekonomirelaterade ink\u00f6psprocesser. Du st\u00f6djer planering och uppf\u00f6ljning av investeringar, inklusive investeringskalkyler och anl\u00e4ggningsredovisning, och medverkar i fr\u00e5gor om finansiering. Du samordnar ekonomisk rapportering, revision och taxe\u00e4renden med \u00e4garkommunerna.\nKvalifikationer\nVi s\u00f6ker dig som har en akademisk examen inom ekonomi eller annan utbildning i kombination med erfarenhet som arbetsgivaren bed\u00f6mer likv\u00e4rdig. Du har fler\u00e5rig erfarenhet av kvalificerat ekonomiarbete och en bred kompetens inom budget, prognoser, bokslut och ekonomisk uppf\u00f6ljning.\nDu har en stark analytisk f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga och kan oms\u00e4tta ekonomisk information till tydliga beslutsunderlag f\u00f6r s\u00e5v\u00e4l ledning som verksamhet. Du uttrycker dig mycket v\u00e4l p\u00e5 svenska i tal och skrift och trivs i en roll d\u00e4r du kombinerar operativt arbete med ett strategiskt och l\u00e5ngsiktigt utvecklingsperspektiv.\nOm du har erfarenhet av VA-ekonomi och god f\u00f6rst\u00e5else f\u00f6r de s\u00e4rskilda ekonomiska f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningar som g\u00e4ller f\u00f6r VA-verksamhet, d\u00e4r verksamheten styrs av vattentj\u00e4nstlagen och dess principer ser vi det som en stark f\u00f6rdel.\nDet \u00e4r meriterande om du har:\nerfarenhet fr\u00e5n VA-verksamhet, annan taxefinansierad verksamhet, kommun eller kommunalt bolag\nerfarenhet av utvecklings- och f\u00f6r\u00e4ndringsarbete inom ekonomiomr\u00e5det\n\nPersonliga egenskaper\nVi l\u00e4gger stor vikt vid dina personliga egenskaper. Du \u00e4r analytisk, strukturerad och l\u00f6sningsorienterad och har l\u00e4tt f\u00f6r att skapa f\u00f6rtroende och goda relationer. Du trivs med att utveckla arbetss\u00e4tt tillsammans med andra och \u00e4r trygg i att ta ansvar och driva fr\u00e5gor fram\u00e5t.\nTidigare chefserfarenhet \u00e4r meriterande, men inget krav. Viktigare \u00e4r att du har ett naturligt ledarskap och f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att skapa engagemang och f\u00e5 m\u00e4nniskor att arbeta mot gemensamma m\u00e5l.\n\u00d6vrigt\nInformation om l\u00f6neniv\u00e5er hittar du h\u00e4r (v\u00e4lj \"Se l\u00f6nestatistik\"). Den h\u00e4r rekryteringen r\u00f6r AID-kod 101011.\nVarmt v\u00e4lkommen med din ans\u00f6kan!\nN\u00e4r du s\u00f6ker jobb hos oss kommer du att f\u00e5 ange ditt CV samt svara p\u00e5 ett antal fr\u00e5gor d\u00e4r vi ber dig beskriva din kompetens inom efterfr\u00e5gat omr\u00e5de. Det inneb\u00e4r att du inte ska bifoga ett personligt brev som en del av din ans\u00f6kan.","price":null,"currency":"SEK","status":"active","noindex":true,"location":{"address":"Kontaktcenter V\u00e4stra Torggatan 26","full_address":null,"city":"Karlstad","country":"SE","latitude":59.3835313,"longitude":13.5229996},"metadata":{"region":"V\u00e4rmlands l\u00e4n","duration":"Tills vidare","employer":"Karlstads kommun","postcode":"65184","positions":1,"profession":"Ekonomichef","salary_type":"Fast m\u00e5nads- vecko- eller timl\u00f6n","scope_of_work":"100\u2013100 %","working_hours":"Heltid","contact_person":"Karolina Stenroth","employment_type":"full_time","occupation_field":"Chefer och verksamhetsledare","employer_workplace":"Karlstadsregionens vatten AB","experience_required":true,"employment_type_label":"Vanlig anst\u00e4llning"},"user_id":null,"is_sponsored":false,"views_count":4,"ai_views_count":8,"ai_vendor_counts":{"meta":4,"other":2,"openai":1,"anthropic":1},"visibility":"public","submission_source":null,"submission_ai_name":null,"has_owner_email":true,"can_contact_owner":true,"phone":"054-5404306","owner_email":"karolina.stenroth@karlstad.se","images":[],"published_at":"2026-08-28T13:07:00+00:00","expires_at":"2026-09-20T23:59:59+00:00","created_at":"2026-08-29T03:50:12+00:00","updated_at":"2026-09-04T02:56:54+00:00"}}