Job Västerås, Sweden

Risk and Insurance Controller

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Employer
VÄSTERÅS KOMMUN
Employment type
Permanent
Experience required
Yes

1 position(s). Join us in developing risk and insurance management in one of Sweden's largest municipalities. With us, you'll have a strategic key role in a large and complex organization with its own captive insurance fund. You'll have the opportunity to influence working methods, set direction, and drive long-term development that strengthens safety throughout the city. Your responsibilities You have a coordinating and developing role with significant independent responsibility. You work both strategically and operationally with risk management, insurance, and accident prevention efforts for the entire Västerås city. By analyzing claims data, accident statistics, risk assessments, and environmental changes, you identify development areas and translate insights into concrete measures. You drive development work that strengthens safety and helps reduce damage costs across the city's operations. You are responsible for the city's insurance strategy work, develop and manage the internal insurance fund, and coordinate the insurance group. The role involves being the city's contact person with insurance brokers and insurers, and you manage work with our action program according to the Act on Protection Against Accidents (LSO). The assignment includes many contact points and close collaboration with departments, municipal companies, and external partners. You develop decision-making materials, guidelines, and other governing documents that contribute to developing the city's work in this area. Your qualifications You are driven to develop and improve operations and to translate analysis into concrete results. Seeing connections, identifying patterns, and finding long-term solutions come naturally to you. You enjoy taking independent responsibility, advancing issues, and creating structure in complex contexts. At the same time, you find it easy to build trustful relationships and collaborate with different departments and professions. You have academic education or other education that we consider equivalent, and experience with qualified analysis, development, or investigation work. You are experienced in coordinating complex processes and have experience producing decision-making materials, reports, and governing documents. It is beneficial if you have experience with insurance, risk management, claims handling, or accident prevention work. Experience from the public sector is also valuable in this role. What we offer With us, you'll have an assignment where you work long-term to prevent accidents, reduce damage, and strengthen safety in the city. You'll become part of an engaged unit with important societal assignments where your work contributes to concrete improvements for both operations and residents. The role gives you the opportunity to combine analysis, development, and collaboration while helping shape how we work with risk management and insurance. Through the city's own insurance fund, there are good conditions to work strategically, monitor effects over time, and drive development that makes a real difference. We believe in trust and responsibility with freedom. This means you plan your own workday, have flexible hours, and the opportunity to work remotely part of the time. Here you'll be part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we demonstrate initiative in both big and small matters. We live our values in our interactions with each other and those we serve. Every day, year-round, we ensure Västerås functions. Together with approximately 11,500 colleagues around the city, you'll have Sweden's most important job. Read more about opportunities, career paths, and what we offer here: https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarriär Additional information During the interview, you'll need to verify your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a citizen certificate together with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EES, or Switzerland, you must provide proof of a valid work permit or be exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of work permit status, as required by the Aliens Act. All offers for recruitment and advertising assistance are declined. Employment type: Permanent position.

Profession
Försäkringsspecialist
Salary type
Fixed monthly, weekly or hourly pay
Open positions
1
Contact person
Maria Vikblom
Employer Workplace
Västerås stad, Stadsledningskontoret
Region
Västmanlands län
Occupation Field
Administration, ekonomi, juridik
Postcode
72187
Duration
Ongoing
Scope Of Work
100–100 %
Working Hours
Full-time
City
Västerås
GPS
59.6185805, 16.4566227
Published
17. 8. 2026
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