Principal, Performance Management
Job Summary
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23.11.2026We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible.
You are utilising your knowledge independently to solve highly complex tasks with a short to medium-term tactical impact/risk. You address key business challenges that align with Equinors short and long-term strategy by providing specialist support to your team and others. You independently communicate within the immediate team across other areas and towards key stakeholders from partners or external parties. You regularly navigate conflicting agendas and may lead negotiations with senior stakeholders. You resolve challenges deliver improvements and contribute to shaping best practices. You promote change initiatives demonstrate flexibility to adopt new highly complex activities/ways of working and advise others. You follow and comply with safety ethics and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.
Within this position your key tasks will be to:
- Provide advanced support and process coordination to line management performance managers and controllers in ambition to action processes performance management and portfolio analysis.
- Support leading professionals in a wide range of tasks related to planning forecasting reporting and other financial support and improvement initiatives.
- Provide preparation support to leading professionals for management meetings presentations and memos on strategic and commercial topics.
- Coordinate and contribute to internal and external reporting.
- Apply digital skills to provide management with relevant insights related to business performance.
- Identify improvement areas and actively participate in improvement projects to enhance performance drive standardization and simplification using data analysis tools.
- Support the implementation of S4 Hana.
At Equinor there are some overall qualities we regard as essential. We want you to identify with the values that guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow: open collaborative courageous and caring. We expect you to make safety your priority and to contribute to our zero-harm culture. And for this specific position we are also looking for:
- Experience in UK upstream assets.
- Strong knowledge of UK Standard Oil Accounting Procedures.
- S4 Hana experience an advantage.
- Analytics for Office.
Please note that recent changes to theUKimmigration rules have tightened the criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. If you require EquinorUKto act as a sponsorin order toundertake this role please note EquinorUKcannot guarantee that the role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. If following assessment against the applicable Home Office requirements (including skill and salary thresholdsand anyrolespecificlists) it isdeterminedthat EquinorUKis not able tosponsor this role any conditional offer of employment may be withdrawn. This does not affect candidates who already havethe right to work in theUK without the need for visa sponsorship from EquinorUK.
We want you to have a rewarding and fulfilling work life. Thats why we offer:
Not just a job - a career
In Equinor your development begins on day one. You will build your competence through a wide range of learning activities while being empowered to build your career across multiple disciplines and geographies. Our internal job market allows a wide range of opportunities for development and growth within your own field or even in other areas you find interesting and relevant.
Attractive rewards
We give you a comprehensive benefits package with a competitive salary global parental leave bonus scheme and pension plan.
Wellness and work-life balance
We care about and prioritise our employees well-being. We know that for you to be the best version of yourself in the workplace being able to collect your children attend a class or simply enjoy social time can be invaluable. Thats why we encourage you to make use of our flexible work arrangements wherever possible.
An inclusive culture
We believe embracing our differences makes us stronger. For us true inclusion means being able to bring your whole self to work and for you and everyone else to feel accepted and valued.
Equinor is an equal-opportunity make all employment decisions which include hiring promotion transfer demotion termination and training without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability marital status parental status veteran status or any other protected status.
As part of this commitment reasonable adjustments will be made during the recruitment process for candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you have any specific requirements please clarify this in your application and our team will be in contact to see how we can support your needs.
We also believe everyone should be paid fairly and consistently for their contribution to our collective success. To ensure fairness and transparency positions at Equinor are evaluated using our global job architecture based on the positions responsibilities complexity and impact and regularly reviewed to ensure consistency and alignment across the organisation.
We expect you to openly offer all relevant information about yourself during the recruitment process. Background checks are performed on all final candidates and all permanent and temporary hires will be screened using relevant sanctions lists to ensure compliance with sanctions laws. When applying for a job in Norway you will be asked for information on affiliation to high-risk countries for a security assessment.
Equinor is an international energy company headquartered in Norway energising the lives of 170 million people worldwide. Our ambition is to be a leading company in the energy transition and achieve net zero by 2050. Our task is enormous: supplying the world with the energy it needs while lowering emissions to the atmosphere. To achieve it we are looking for like-minded people to join our team of 25000 colleagues working in more than 20 countries. Were up for the challenge. Are you
About Company
We are an international energy company headquartered in Norway, around 25,000 employees and with offices in more than 20 countries worldwide.