Senior Vice President Head of Performance Management

The successful candidate will play a central role in ensuring that capital is allocated effectively investment opportunities are assessed consistently and the Groups financial resources are directed towards the highest-value opportunities. For an experienced finance leader this represents an opportunity to operate at the heart of Statkrafts strategic decision-making processes and contribute.

          Performance Management Risk and Business analysis

• Lead group-wide planning forecasting and target-setting processes
• Own performance management and performance follow-up across the Group
• Deliver forward-looking analysis of value creation financial and operational performance and long-term financial capacity
• Advise Corporate Management on performance trade-offs resource allocation and the financial implications of major business decisions
• Lead scenario analysis and long-range planning to support decision-making under uncertainty
• Strengthen efficiency orientation in planning performance discussions and performance follow-up
• Ensure a well-designed performance and risk management process with clear interfaces towards other group processes
• Own Performance management standards methodologies and key assumptions across planning and investment analysis
• Ensure consistency transparency and comparability of financial decision material
• Integrate financial risk into planning forecasting and investment decision-making processes
• Establish governance principles for Performance management processes and outputs
• Drive continuous improvement of methods benchmarks and decision frameworks
• Define business requirements for Performance management data tools and analytics capabilities

• Capital Allocation & Investment Decision Support
• Ensure capital allocation decisions are supported by consistent and comparable financial analysis
• Lead financial decision support for major investment opportunities including greenfield developments acquisitions and strategic projects
• Ensure investment cases are assessed on equal terms and in line with Statkrafts investment principles
• Support governance processes and decision gates with high-quality financial decision material
• Provide financial insight into strategic decisions return analysis and portfolio trade-offs
  
  
  Business Partnership & Organisational Leadership
• Act as a trusted finance partner to Business Areas asset owners and project organisations
• Challenge assumptions and improve the quality and relevance of decision support
• Foster collaboration across Finance including Financial and Sustainability Reporting Corporate finance Strategy & Transformation and GBS
• Build and lead a high-performing organisation focused on performance accountability and business partnership
• Develop organisational capability succession pipelines and future leadership capacity

Qualifications :

Statkraft is seeking a highly accomplished finance leader with a strong combination of strategic insight analytical rigour and commercial judgement. The successful candidate will bring deep experience in financial planning performance management and investment decision support together with the leadership capabilities required to influence complex decision-making across a large international organisation.

Experience and Qualifications

• Masters degree in Finance Economics Business Administration or a related discipline
• Significant senior leadership experience in Performance management Group Finance Corporate Finance Investment Analysis or related disciplines
• Strong experience in financial planning forecasting performance management and business analysis
• Deep understanding of capital allocation valuation methodologies financial decision frameworks and scenario analysis
• Experience supporting complex investment decisions strategic business cases and resource allocation processes
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to assess opportunities across diverse markets businesses and regulatory environments
• Experience operating within large industrial infrastructure energy or similarly complex organisations
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams

Leadership Profile
The successful candidate will be a strategic and intellectually curious leader who combines broad business perspective with strong analytical discipline. They will be recognised as a trusted adviser capable of influencing senior stakeholders challenging assumptions constructively and translating complex analysis into clear business recommendations.

The individual will possess strong commercial acumen excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across Corporate Management Business Areas and Finance leadership teams. They will bring a continuous improvement mindset and a commitment to strengthening performance accountability and value creation across the organisation.
 

Additional Information :

What we offer 

• Unlimited learning opportunities at various levels of the organization 
• The chance to grow your career alongside a truly global network of experts leaders specialists and graduates from different countries and backgrounds 
• The opportunity to work somewhere with pride and be able to honestly say My work is contributing to saving the planet 
• A work culture that puts emphasis on the individual offering flexible working solutions and work-life balance principles 
• Statkraft offers competitive terms of employment and benefit schemes and were a trusted employer that puts the safety of our people first. We believe that a safe and healthy working environment is a matter of choice not chance 

Statkraft manages critical infrastructure and services in several countries. The applicant must be eligible for security clearance and authorization. 

Statkrafts vision is to renew the way the world is powered. To navigate the complex journey ahead we need every voice at the table. We therefore work actively to be a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome all applicants regardless of background gender age sexual orientation religious belief ethnicity nationality or disability. 

Application deadline:August 24th 2026

Statkraft is partnering with Korn Ferry in this recruitment process. By applying you confirm that your application and personal data may be shared with Korn Ferry for the purpose of evaluating your candidacy and managing the recruitment process. For more information on how your personal data is processed please refer to Statkraft and Korn Ferrys Privacy Notice.

Why join us

We promise that here with us you will build a better way. You will take ownership for projects you will collaborate across boundaries you will embrace new skills guide and be surrounded by some of the smartest people in the industry. Together we lead the energy transition to ensure a more sustainable future for our customers society and future generations. Together lets renew the way the world is powered by building a better way.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time