Finance consultant for the school and day care sector - central role with responsibility and influence

Would you use your financial expertise close to leaders who are responsible for the municipality's schools, day care and PPR? Can you create an overview of the finances, advise leaders, the manager and the director on budgets and priorities. Do you thrive with responsibility and freedom, and can you both keep on top of the details and lift your gaze when the finances are translated into good decisions?

Our current financial consultant is shifting to another position in the municipality, and therefore we are seeking an experienced colleague for the school and day-care area.

Perhaps it is you we are looking for, for our team of skilled financial consultants.

In addition to an exciting job with good development opportunities, you will get a job with responsibility, flexibility and opportunities for professional sparring.

”You will get a fantastic workplace where learning and collaboration are prioritized highly and the management is very good at giving freedom under responsibility.”

• Andreas Kjærskov Nørlev, BI- and Analysis Consultant in the Finance Department

About the job: Secure financial management and a view to development

You will become part of our team of financial consultants, where there is a good mix of experienced staff and younger consultants with different backgrounds.

You will become the primary financial consultant for the school and day-care area and will be responsible for the ongoing financial management and sparring with the leadership of the professional areas. In the department you have colleagues with insight into the school and day-care area, whom you can turn to for professional sparring.

Specifically you will

• Handle budgeting, financial follow-up, closing of accounts and ongoing operations in the school and day-care area.
• Maintain close dialogue with the director, managers, leaders and key employees and prepare them to make decisions on a solid financial basis.
• Develop, implement and maintain forecast models.
• Prepare tariff calculations for your professional areas.
• Work with demographic adjustment and corresponding resource models in the school and day-care area.
• Generally support, develop and challenge the professional areas.
• Participate in relevant cross-cutting finance and analysis tasks.

You have a lot of freedom to structure your work in the way that best fits, including when it comes to home working. To ensure good collaboration across, we have agreed on shared office days, just as you will also have office days and meetings at your professional areas.

About you: Structured and persistent with a curious approach

We imagine that you come with a relevant financial education and have experience with financial management from a municipality, other public organization or from a larger private company. You thrive with taking responsibility and being a financial sparring partner, and you can ensure quality in the detail and keep an overview.

You do not necessarily need to know the school and day-care area in advance. Instead we expect that you are curious and want to thoroughly understand both the finances and the professional reality behind the numbers. It is important that you thrive with close collaboration and can build good relationships with managers and employees.

We particularly value that you

• Have a strong analytical sense and a good eye for both the whole and the detail.
• Have good communication skills, so you can convey finance to colleagues with different professional backgrounds.
• Have an independent, responsible and curious approach to problem solving.
• Have a good sense of development and optimization opportunities.
• Contribute positively to the professional and social community in Finance.

About us: A central department with great influence, good ambiance and free frame

The Finance Department is located at Hadsund Town Hall and is part of Mariagerfjord Municipality's Staff for Finance and Community Service.

We are a unified department consisting of three teams: Finance, Budget and Analysis as well as Operations Economics. Our main task is to support and advise the professional areas so they can focus on their core task.

We collaborate with directors, managers, leaders and key employees in the areas and are therefore involved in many exciting decision-making processes.

”As an employee you have a lot of freedom as long as you are skilled and take responsibility. There is ample opportunity to put your own mark on the job, and we can quickly move on things, change and optimize if you see opportunities and potential for improvement in relation to, for example, processes and systems.”

• Steffen Bach Grønhøj , Head of the Finance Department

Does this sound like something for you?

Then send an application and a CV to Mariagerfjord Municipality via our website.

Application deadline: 21 October 2026.

Interviews will be held on 26 October 2026.

Salary and employment terms

It is a full-time position, and employment is made according to current collective agreement with expected start date 1 December 2026.

The final salary placement will be determined after further negotiation with the bargaining organization.

There may be meetings at the municipality's other addresses, and it is therefore expected that you have a driving license and own car.

The workplace is Hadsund Town Hall, Himmerlandsgade 9, 9560 Hadsund, with the possibility of home office days as needed and to the extent that it makes sense in relation to the tasks.

To be employed in Mariagerfjord Municipality you must have MitID.

Want to know more?

If you have questions about the position, you are very welcome to contact

Team Leader for Finance Team, Elisabeth Skaarup Andersen on phone 2119 9692

Head of the Finance Department, Steffen Bach Grønhøj on phone 5164 9334

We look forward to hearing from you!

About Mariagerfjord Municipality

Mariagerfjord Municipality is one of Denmark's most beautiful municipalities with a unique and varied nature by forest, coast and fjord. We are centrally located between Aalborg and Aarhus and thereby a link between Northern Jutland and the rest of the country. Our goal is clear: We want more, and there is room for more. Therefore, we focus on creating the best framework for our about 42,000 citizens, for our businesses and for the development of the municipality.

In Mariagerfjord Municipality we want all our 3,400 employees to feel they are an important part of the community. We have the freedom to bring our skills and ideas into play, so we solve the core task in the best possible way and make a difference for our citizens. We focus on psychological safety and show respect for each other’s differences. We all take shared responsibility for the community and the task, and therefore we also place great importance on a well-functioning collaboration in the MED-organization.

We see diversity as a strength and therefore encourage all interested applicants to apply for jobs with us, regardless of personal background.