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 five 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