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 for 2025
- 900 employees
- Some 92 per cent of all government agencies and enterprises use our payroll and accounting services. See list of our customers.
- 274 776 wage earners
- 152 408 users of the DFØ app
- NOK 1 200 000 000 000 (one trillion two hundred billion) paid out from the accounting system
- 2 700 000 incoming and outgoing invoices
- 87 million transactions via the government’s consolidated accounts
- 190 government agencies and enterprises report to the public accounts
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
- Nina Kulås, Director General
- Gøril Aune, Director of the Division for Accounting and Financial services
- Anne-Berit Herstad, Director of the Communications Unit
- Hilde Nakken
- Director of the Division for governance, organisation and leadership
- Acting Director of the Division for Strategic Planning and Joint Services
- Dag Strømsnes, Director of the Division for Public Procurements
- Bjørn Sæstad, Director of the Division for Payroll
- Tore Blekastad, Director of the Division for IT