Financial Controller for the Veterans Centre

Do you want to help develop and strengthen the efforts toward the women and men who stand up for Denmark's security in the world's flashpoints? Do you have solid collaboration skills and experience with financial management and controlling? Then we may have a position ready for you in the Veteran Secretariat of the Veterans Center in Ringsted.

About us

The Veterans Center is an authority under the Danish Defence, whose task is to ensure that all current and future veterans and their relatives at all times receive the preparation, guidance, support, treatment and recognition they are entitled to and need, and that helps them move forward. To support our complex task solution, we have employed a wide range of professional backgrounds at the Veterans Center, from social workers and psychologists to researchers, military personnel and academics.

The Veterans Center coordinates the many initiatives in the veteran area and supports the work of the Danish Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence, based on veteran policy. The veteran area and thus also the Veterans Center enjoy substantial political attention, which greatly shapes the work of the Veterans Center. Geographically, the Veterans Center is distributed across seven service locations around Denmark. The headquarters are located at the beautiful old barracks in Ringsted, which will also be your fixed workplace.

The Veterans Center's Veteran Secretariat is part of the Leadership Secretariat, which also includes a communication element and a management element. The Veteran Secretariat consists of three additional employees who work closely together to support, advise, coordinate and facilitate the task resolution between the Veterans Center and stakeholders such as civilian veteran associations, private initiatives and foundations.

You will become part of a strong team that consults with each other to bring all relevant perspectives into play—from expertise to economics to communication—so we ensure fast, solid solutions for the benefit of veterans and their relatives.

About the position

At the Veterans Center we need to increase our focus on supervision of grant funds and controlling of pools and grants. Your work will contribute to ensuring that the Defence achieves optimal effect of the veteran area’s offers and initiatives. The concrete tasks will be to:

• advise and spar about finances on initiatives and projects within the veteran area, in close cooperation with colleagues and voluntary actors in the veteran sector
• handle application processes for the Veterans Center’s pools
• in collaboration with colleagues, provide input to resource allocation in the veteran area, for increased utilization of available resources
• take care of administration and controlling of government-financed funds
• conduct control of the execution of activities that receive grants
• solve other tasks related to the Veteran Secretariat's area of responsibility.

The majority of your task solution will take place at the office, but you will also need to participate in meetings with voluntary actors and veteran associations around the country. Some meetings are held outside normal working hours. Depending on your strengths and competencies, you will eventually have the opportunity to contribute to consultation responses, handling inquiries to the Veteran Secretariat, and support for the operation of the Secretariat’s overall task solution.

About you

We expect you to have a relevant financial background, experience with financial management and accounting flair. You have a strong financial understanding and can connect detail with overview, and translate this into results in a politically governed organization with many stakeholders and high media attention. It is an advantage if you have previously worked with handling public grants and foundations.

We expect you to take pride in doing your tasks properly. You orient yourself toward the task and collaborate with a focus on reaching a common solution through dialogue. You are flexible, accommodating and good at creating and engaging in relationships. It is a prerequisite that you are open and curious and want to develop yourself together with your new colleagues.

It is also important that you can work independently and take responsibility for your part of the Veteran Secretariat’s task solution, so that your colleagues can focus on their part of the task. You appreciate and contribute to a good working environment, with room for smiles and collegial fellowship.

If you have previously worked with volunteer organizations, have experience with the veteran field or knowledge of the Ministry of Defence’s organization, that can strengthen your candidacy. Alternatively, we expect you to have an interest in getting to know the area.

Employment terms

The appointment is made in accordance with the current Collective Agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and Public Employees Organizations – The State Sector (OAO-S collective agreement) and the Organizational Agreement for office clerks, laboratory assistants and IT employees (HK) in the State.

Depending on your qualifications and competencies, there is the possibility of negotiating supplements. There is an employer-financed pension scheme attached to the position.

The workplace is in Ringsted

As an employee under the Ministry of Defence, you are subject to certain special conditions. You must, among other things, be security cleared and maintain the security clearance throughout the employment.

As an employee you are obliged to perform service outside the country, including at units in international operations with a view to participating in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian and other similar operations.

Contact and application

If you want to hear more about the position, you are welcome to contact the head of the Leadership and Veteran Secretariat at the Veterans Center, Jens Kirk, at phone 7281 9710.

If you have questions about salary and terms of employment, you are welcome to contact the Personnel Command, HR consultant Lone Skovgaard Leerbæk at phone 3090 1290.

The application deadline is 12 November 2026 and interviews are expected to be held in connection therewith. The position is to be filled on 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter; we are happy to wait for the right candidate.

You apply for the position via the link, and please attach your application, CV and a copy of your educational certificate. Please note that attachments must be added in PDF format.

In the Danish Defence Organization we believe that diversity optimizes task solution. Therefore we encourage all interested regardless of background to apply for the position.

The Veterans Center

The Veterans Center is anchored in the Personnel Command and is responsible for a systematic effort aimed at all veterans and relatives before, during and after deployment. In addition to preventive measures, all veterans and relatives have access to multidisciplinary support from social workers, employment counselors, outreach counselors, family counselors and psychologists, if the need is related to deployment.

We collaborate with authorities, businesses and volunteer associations that are in contact with our veterans. The tasks include, among other things, research and dissemination of knowledge about veterans and their conditions, social affairs, rehabilitation, military psychology, clinical treatment and coordination of the veteran area’s initiatives.