Financial Assistant to the Accounting Team

Are you passionate about financial management, accounting tasks and system support? Do you like working independently, and are you also good at collaborating with managers and colleagues at all levels? Then it’s you we are looking for.

In the central Finance department you will join the accounting team as part of the Budget & Accounting office.

Your responsibilities

In the Accounting Team you take a central role in the work with the municipality's accounts, grants, internal audit and other accounting-related tasks. We support good financial management in Esbjerg Municipality and advise both political and administrative leadership.

You will work with tasks in

• The municipality's annual accounts, where you and the team have a central role in preparing the accounts and sending them for political approval. Including following up on the quality of the execution of cross-cutting tasks to which all departments contribute.
• Administration of grants including handling applications with a view to awarding funds and preparing annual accounts.
• Internal audit, where you help prepare the annual audit plan and subsequently participate in the execution of the tasks included in the plan. The tasks consist partly of audit visits at decentralized institutions but also cross-cutting analyses and controls.
• Posting of the Finance department's own invoices and performing budget monitoring in selected areas in the administration, where we continuously help them to look into their finances.
• Support for central and decentralized users who use the municipality's financial system KMD Opus Economy.
• Operation and support for the municipality's decentralized budget monitoring system “KMD NemEconomy”.
• Participate in holding internal courses in the use of KMD Opus Economy and KMD NemEconomy.

About you

We imagine that you…

• Thrive in a politically governed organization and have an eye for how economy, professionalism and strategy play together.
• Have experience with municipal financial management and a relevant theoretical education.
• Work in a structured way and are comfortable with using the financial system KMD-OPUS.
• Communicate clearly and precisely both in writing and verbally.
• Are a team player with good collaboration skills in relation to both tasks and colleagues. And you want to take responsibility and contribute to shared solutions.

We offer you

In Budget & Accounting we have a broad collaboration surface – from director to employees – and work purposefully to develop and support financial management in Esbjerg Municipality.

We believe that job satisfaction and professionalism go hand in hand. Therefore we take care to create a workplace where you can both develop and be yourself.

With us you get

• A daily life with high well-being and good atmosphere.
• Focus on professional and personal development.
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of remote work.
• Paid lunch break and pension scheme.
• A workplace with ambitions – and room for diversity.

Finance is divided into the offices Budget & Accounting and Procurement & Purchasing. We solve tasks related to accounting, chart of accounts, system administration, support, financial management, internal audit, budgeting, budget monitoring, accounting, cash in and out, daily financial management and quality assurance of cases with financial content for handling in the political committees.

We also work with the development of cross-cutting statistics and data, including the municipality's management information and population forecast.

The practical

• It is a permanent full-time position.
• Start on 1 December 2026.
• Workplace: Esbjerg City Hall, Torvegade 74 in Esbjerg.

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Budget & Accounting Chief Johan Brøndsted, at telephone no. 29 26 88 61.

Salary and conditions of employment are set in accordance with the applicable collective agreement, including the current provisions on local salary formation. You can find information about the level of pay in Esbjerg Municipality via this link: KRL. Here you will also find information on base pay and pension. In addition, after a concrete assessment, qualification and/or function supplements may be agreed depending on the content of the position and your experience and qualifications.

In Esbjerg Municipality we work on the basis of trust and see human diversity as a strength. We therefore encourage all qualified regardless of gender, age or ethnic background to apply for the position.

When employed in the position, a criminal record check will be obtained.

If you progress after the employment interview, references will be obtained from current and/or previous employers if you are still considered for the position. You will be informed before references are obtained.

Application deadline

18 October 2026

Interviews will be held on 22 October 2026.

The application is sent electronically . Click on "apply for the job" at the bottom and attach your application, CV and relevant documentation.

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