About us

DFØ is mandated to help ensure sound financial management in Norway’s government institutions and that the government reaches its goals through good governance, organisation, management and decision-making support.

What we do

Our main tasks are to:

  • provide shared payroll and accounting services to government institutions
  • administer the Instructions for Official Studies and the regulations on financial management in government institutions
  • provide advice and guidance on governance, socio-economic analysis, administration and management, employment issues and public procurement
  • administer joint purchasing agreements for government agencies and enterprises
  • investigate and analyse the state of government institutions, their development and need for change
  • offer professional development to leaders and employees of government agencies and enterprises
  • administer the systems for the government’s public accounts and consolidated accounts
Key figures
  • 838 employees (2023)
  • Some 91 per cent of all government agencies and enterprises use our payroll and accounting services (2023). See list of our customers.
  • 280 341 wage earners (2023)
  • 153 000 users of the DFØ app (2023)
  • NOK 942 billion paid out from the accounting system (2023)
  • 1 700 000 incoming invoices (2023)
  • 84 million transactions via the government’s consolidated accounts (2023)
  • 189 government agencies and enterprises report to the public accounts (2023)

Organization

We are organized in seven divisions:

  • Division for Payroll (Stavanger)
  • Division for Accounting and Financial services (Trondheim)
  • Division for governance, organisation and leadership (Oslo)
  • Division for Strategic Planning and Joint Services (Oslo)
  • Division for Public Procurements (Oslo)
  • Division for IT (Oslo)
  • Communications Unit (Oslo)

Directors

  • Hilde Singsaas, Director General
  • Gøril Aune, Director of the Division for Accounting and Financial services
  • Christian Storhaug Johnsen, Director of the Division for Strategic Planning and Joint Services
  • Anne-Berit Herstad, Director of the Communications Unit
  • Hilde Nakken, Director of the Division for governance, organisation and leadership
  • Gunnar Wessel Thomassen, Director of the Division for Public Procurements
  • Bjørn Sæstad, Director of the Division for Payroll
  • Tore Blekastad, Director of the Division for IT
Updated: 16. July 2024

Contact

If you have any questions, contact us at postmottak@dfo.no.

  • Telephone: (+47) 400 07 997

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