Responsibilities
- Design and continuously evolve a unified performance framework across all functions and regions, ensuring alignment with business strategy and priorities
- Translate company goals into clear, measurable performance standards and scorecards in collaboration with functional leaders
- Own the end-to-end quarterly performance cycle, ensuring disciplined execution, data integrity, and consistency across teams
- Lead performance and calibration discussions with senior management and C-level stakeholders to ensure objective, comparable evaluation
- Assess the quality and effectiveness of KPIs used across the business; challenge and refine metrics that do not reflect real outcomes
- Identify performance risks, inefficiencies, and misalignment between targets, execution, and results
- Ensure performance outcomes are used consistently in promotion, underperformance (PIP/exit), and reward decisions
- Partner with Finance and HR leadership to align performance results with compensation, bonuses, and salary review processes
- Define and enforce standards and guardrails for KPIs and metrics used in performance-related decision-making
- Prepare analytical materials and recommendations for executive committees related to performance, promotions, and rewards
- Build and lead a team responsible for performance operations, analytics, and governance
- Continuously improve performance systems and decision-making processes to support company growth and organisational maturity
Requirements:
- 7+ years of professional experience in strategy, business operations, analytics, consulting, or performance-related leadership roles
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a senior leadership or management position
- Proven experience designing and operating performance frameworks in fast-growing, metrics-driven organisations
- Strong understanding of how performance metrics connect to business results, efficiency, and growth
- Experience leading structured performance or calibration discussions with senior and executive stakeholders
- Highly analytical mindset with the ability to identify root causes, inconsistencies, and performance risks through data
- Ability to manage complex, time-bound initiatives with high standards for execution discipline and data quality
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions and influence senior leaders constructively
- High level of ownership, integrity, and discretion when working with sensitive information
- Fluency in English; Ukrainian or Russian is a strong advantage
- Willingness to work from the Cyprus office
Will be a plus:
- Experience in fintech, brokerage, payments, or other regulated, metrics-driven industries
- Background in top-tier consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or strategy roles in hyper-growth technology companies
- Experience linking performance metrics to compensation, incentives, or investment decisions
- Hands-on experience with BI, analytics platforms, or performance management tools
We offer:
- Opportunity to work for a leading international brokerage company
- A high-impact leadership role with direct exposure to the CEO and executive team
- Chance to design and scale a company-wide performance system from the ground up
- 21 paid vacation days per year
- 10 paid sick leave days per year
- Public holidays according to the Cyprus Public holiday list
- Medical insurance
- Extensive relocation package
- Professional education budget
- Language learning budget
- Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear, and related expenses)