Finance Consultant for the Budget Unit at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital

If you are interested in the health sector and public financial management, you have the opportunity to become part of the team that manages Herlev and Gentofte Hospital’s total budget of around DKK 6 billion.

We are looking for a new colleague in the Budget Unit to drive financial management in our new Department for Citizen-Centered Health, as well as the finances that fall under the Copenhagen North area of the Health Council. It would be an advantage if you have experience with financial management from a current or previous job, but you can also be a new graduate with a desire to work with public finances.

As a Finance Consultant in the Budget Unit you will be responsible for the financial management of the new department in close collaboration with the department’s leadership. In the Budget Unit you will have 20 skilled colleagues who are passionate about delivering solid financial advisory and sparring to the hospital’s departments and management. In bullet points we work particularly with:

• Budget planning and budget follow-up.
• Financial management at department level.
• Strategic advisory and sparring to department leadership
• Preparation of decision briefs to the executive management on financial topics.
• Optimization and development of shift scheduling.
• Preparation of financial management information.

The Budget Unit is part of the staff area Finance, Data and Planning, where we are a total of 44 employees. We place emphasis on a good working environment with an informal tone and a good mood.

Job content

You will primarily work with budget follow-up, analyses and controlling of the Department for Citizen-Centered Health and tasks derived from the health reform. The budget relating to your area of responsibility is 420 million DKK. Since the department is new and will first go into operation on January 1, 2027, the first period will be a startup phase requiring willingness and ability to build close relationships with the employees in the new department who are engaged in financial tasks.

There is also a need to prepare analyses and notes that can support the department leadership’s and executive management’s decisions in the area, including also in the Health Council area. There may also, in time, be cross-cutting tasks in the financial area at hospital level or tasks derived from the Health Reform.

You will report to the head of the Budget Unit and in your daily work you will collaborate broadly across the entire organization. That is, with managers, executive management, colleagues in administration and financial staff at other hospitals and at Regionsgården.

Our expectations of you

We expect you to have a relevant educational background. Experience from the health sector will be an advantage, but not a requirement. You must have a good numerical understanding, be careful in your work and be able to present financial issues in a clear manner. Whether you are a newly educated economist or have longer experience with public finances is not decisive. If you are a new graduate we will provide thorough onboarding.

We are looking for a colleague who is interested in public financial management, is service-minded, has a generally positive approach to tasks and contributes with good collegiality and good humor. Therefore you should:

• Be able to work independently and result-oriented
• Have good collaboration skills
• Possess a well-developed analytical sense
• Be interested in numbers/economics and be a good communicator of it
• Write well and be able to communicate and navigate with different recipients, e.g. the hospital’s executive management and department leadership.
• Be prepared for a busy daily life with many balls in the air with different priorities.
• Be interested in contributing to the well-being of the department
• Have an eye for how cross-disciplinary collaboration strengthens the core task

We offer

The position is a full-time role with a 37-hour work week. We have flex-time and the possibility to work from home once a week. You will be employed either under the agreement for academics employed in regions, etc., or under the agreement for administration and IT staff, etc. Your primary workplace will be distributed between Gentofte and Herlev hospitals. Some meeting activity at our locations in the Health Council Copenhagen North Surroundings area should also be expected.

If you want to hear more

You are welcome to contact Budget Chief Mogens Mosegaard Nielsen at 3867 2192 / [email protected] or Finance Consultant Peter Bengtsen at 51337616 / [email protected]

We need your application no later than the end of 1 November 2026. There will be recruitment interviews in weeks 46 and 47, and we expect the position to be filled on 1 January or as soon as possible thereafter.