Head of IT (m/f/d) 70%-100%

We are not looking for small players, but great talents. If you enjoy working in a team and close to the customer, then we should get to know each other. Fiduciary, auditing and consulting have made us big in Switzerland. But not too big. We are Balmer-Etienne. We see things a little differently.

Our IT is facing a realignment. This is where you come in: As Head of IT, you will shape the IT of tomorrow. You combine entrepreneurial thinking with technological foresight, bring people and topics together, and make our IT fit for the future. A role with responsibility, scope for design and direct influence on our company.

• Business & Digitalisation: You are a sparring partner for our business lines, listen, recognise needs and translate them into solutions. You accompany digitalisation projects from idea to implementation – always with a view to added value for our customers and employees.
• IT Strategy & Target Picture 2030: Together with the CEO and management, you develop our IT roadmap. You assess our system landscape as a whole, define the future operating model and make well-founded decisions on make-or-buy and partner structure.
• IT Operations & Service Management: You ensure stable, secure and user-oriented IT operations across all locations. At the same time, you further develop our service management, create clear responsibilities and establish meaningful key figures.
• Information Security & Continuity: You are responsible for information security, data protection and emergency preparedness. You keep an eye on cyber risks and strengthen our employees' awareness of secure handling of information.
• Budget & Governance: You manage the IT budget, contracts and external partners transparently and proactively. With clear IT governance and meaningful reporting, you create the basis for well-founded decisions up to the board of directors.
• Team & Leadership: You lead our five-member IT team both professionally and personally, promote its development and create an environment where personal responsibility and collaboration count. You report directly to the CEO and bring your perspective to where the future of Balmer-Etienne is shaped.

• have a degree in computer science or business informatics or an equivalent education and training.
• have several years of leadership and overall responsibility in a comparable, ideally decentralised IT environment and have already successfully further developed an IT organisation or operating model.
• understand infrastructure, cloud, applications, data and information security as a whole and can classify technological developments in an entrepreneurial context.
• think entrepreneurially, act pragmatically and put the benefit for our customers and employees at the centre.
• bring complexity to the point, prioritise clearly and prepare decision-making bases so that CEO, management and board of directors can make well-founded decisions.
• lead reliably and development-oriented, delegate responsibility and create structures that work sustainably.
• address even demanding or uncomfortable topics constructively and combine strategic foresight with proximity to operational day-to-day business.