Head Group Financial & Performance Management
Olten (CH) | Permanent role | Full-time: 100%
The Head Group Financial & Performance Management leads the internal reporting process and ensures a high-quality planning and forecasting. Your mission is to provide the Executive Board with reliable, decision-ready insights through a robust EIS/MIS landscape, harmonised KPIs, and forward-looking analysis. You ensure that Alpiq’s leadership operates with crystal-clear visibility, robust KPIs and reliable forecasting by:
- Delivering a best-in-class performance framework across the Group.
- Elevating the impact and credibility of Group performance reporting.
- Enhancing driver based planning quality, speed and value.
Your responsibilities
As Head Group Financial & Performance Management, you will lead the group-wide internal reporting, planning/forecasting, and the development of Alpiq’s Executive and Management Information Systems. Your key responsibilities include:
1. Performance Governance
- Define a unified Group Performance Framework for planning, forecasting, steering metrics and KPI logic.
2. Plan-to-Steer Process
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting process.
- Ensure system readiness, data quality, and methodology consistency.
3. Executive & Management Information Systems (EIS/MIS)
- Own and further develop EIS/MIS tools, dashboards and data models.
- Deliver management-ready reporting for Executive Board and senior leadership.
- Drive automation, harmonisation and reliability of performance data.
4. KPI & Performance Measurement
- Define, maintain and evolve Group KPIs and steering metrics — financial and non-financial.
- Ensure transparency of performance drivers across segments, assets and corporate functions.
- Strengthen a performance-oriented and challenge-driven culture.
- Lead and deliver key performance and transformation projects for the CFO and Head of Finance & Accounting, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities
Your profile
You are a seasoned finance leader with a strong track record in planning, forecasting, KPI governance, and performance steering. You combine strategic perspective with analytical rigour and hands-on execution, enabling you to translate complex data into clear business decisions and measurable outcomes.
You act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, confidently challenging and influencing at all levels. With a strong focus on standardisation, automation, and data-driven insights, you drive the modernisation of reporting landscapes and actively shape a high-performance culture across the organisation.
You bring:
- Proven leadership capabilities with the ability to align, influence, and deliver across international and cross-functional teams
- Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and integrated financial planning processes
- Strong conceptual and analytical thinking, with the ability to connect strategy to execution
- High resilience, ownership mindset, and the ability to operate independently in complex environments
- Experience in data analytics, digital tools, and ERP-driven finance
- Project management experience; Fluent in English, additional European languages are an advantage.
How you will bring our core values to life:
“We are ALP1Q”
You unify planning, forecasting, KPIs and performance logic into one coherent steering system across all geographies and businesses.
“We learn and grow together”
You build analytical capabilities, develop people and advance modern performance methodologies.
“We share the steering wheel”
You collaborate closely with the Finance Leads, the other Finance & Accounting teams, and the Executive Board to shape decision-relevant insights and steering mechanisms.
“We focus on the outcome”
You ensure that planning, forecasting and reporting are meaningful, fast, reliable and directly linked to value creation, insights and decisions.