Senior Digitalization Lead

Why Statkraft? 
Statkraft has been making clean energy possible for over a century. That’s what we offer. 125 years of unrivalled expertise in supplying the world with what it needs most. We envision a world that runs entirely on renewable energy. Because in the fight against climate change, we don’t see renewable energy as part of the solution – we believe it must be the solution. With us, you’ll shape a career that is truly forward-facing with many amazing opportunities and offerings to match. 

But there’s more work to be done – that’s why we need you to join us. 

Statkraft is currently looking for a Senior Digitalization Lead (“Business IT Developer/BIT” at Statkraft). The role will report to the Head of Digital IT for Financial Services.   

The Senior Digitalization Lead role is an exciting one and a great opportunity to combine the best of two worlds: The Business Understanding with Digitalization. In this role, you’re accountable for driving a partnership with the CFO area aka Finance in a quest to grasp benefits from digitalization and for strengthening key business capabilities required to realise Statkraft’s ambition. The Senior Digitalization Lead plays a key role in the initiation and realization of the business’s digital initiatives, and throughout project lifecycles is oftentimes relied on as an “internal IT consultant” for the business. 

The ITCF (IT for Digital Financial Services) department in Statkraft has as a mission to work as business partners and enablers to the financial areas in Statkraft alongside the Digital Office. From setting up digitalization roadmaps, starting up projects, enabling system selections, and ensuring that the application life cycle is properly planned and handed over to project implementation, our team has a great purpose of enabling digitalization to our business partners, and with that, enabling Statkraft to deliver on its Strategy. 

Description of the Service 

In this role, you will: 

• Understand the processes of your business partners (mainly financial reporting and performance), their needs, and pain points  
• Understand, communicate, and ensure adherence to Statkraft Operating Models and relevant Governance Models  
• Identify problems and opportunities (where possible) in collaboration with the business and the Digital Office to deliver on their strategy  
• Be accountable for the success of IT deliveries by ensuring close collaboration and involvement of relevant IT areas during your business partner’s digitalization projects 
• Be a team player collaborating closely with teams across business units, functions, and experts to produce all relevant deliverables 
• Support in continuously identifying ways to strengthen our way of working 

We are looking for a Senior Digitalization lead with interest, motivation, and experience enabling Finance with IT related project and digitalization initiatives. If you acknowledge the importance of change management and are motivated by collaborating with skilled colleagues to reach ambitious goals, we encourage you to apply.   

We believe the right candidates have: 

• Higher relevant education at university level  
• Experience in IT, with the ability to understand the end-to-end digitalization process and connect the dots between business needs and IT solutions  
• Experience in one or several of the following areas, ideally both systems and processes: ERP (transaction processes), business intelligence (reporting and analytics) and process mining/fraud & analytics 
• A drive to push initiatives forward until the next stage whether you are acting as a project lead or a project resource depending on the need 
• Ability to understand relevant strategies and transform them in concrete deliverables 
• Ability to build a network and long-lasting relationships with your internal customers as well as with other IT departments 
• Fluency in written and spoken English. Norwegian is preferable 

  These skills/experiences would also be useful in the role: 

• Ability to put unstructured information into context and present stories that are easy to follow and understand  
• Great interest and understanding for the opportunities enabled by digitalisation trends and technologies  
• Continuous improvement mindset, where knowhow of agile, explorative, and innovative techniques are appreciated 

What we offer

• Unlimited learning opportunities at various levels of the organisation 
• The chance to grow your career alongside a truly global network of experts, leaders, specialists and graduates from different countries and backgrounds
• A work culture that puts emphasis on the individual, offering flexible working solutions, parental leave and work life balance principles
• Statkraft offers competitive terms of employment and benefits schemes, and we’re 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
• Relocation support if needed.

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

Statkraft's 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.

We evaluate applications for this role on a rolling basis, so please apply with your CV  through our career pages as soon as possible.