Senior Finance Advisor - West

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California, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

August 12, 2022

Business unit:

Finance

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Company description

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork, and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

What is the purpose

Finance Senior Advisors serve as the face of Finance for specific business opportunities or challenges, prioritized based on value and risk. They are responsible for the satisfactory delivery of finance capability required to support a set of clearly defined business outcomes on the project/transaction involved.

Senior Finance Advisor - West

What’s the role?

The role is a key Finance representative for the respective commercial leadership team and is accountable for providing commercial finance advice/challenge/support to a wide variety of gas/power/emissions/structured finance transactions and strategy development in a very dynamic, growing, and heavily regulated business. Due to the inherent risks and regulations of a commodity trading organization, it is critical that the finance senior advisor role ensure an effective control framework and actively promote a strong compliance culture.

This role will be responsible for the following duties:

Ensure that Finance risks are integrated into the full value and risk discussion supporting the business decision making for the specific opportunity involved

Support the implementation of a robust Business Control Framework and related performance management framework for the specific opportunity involved

The role will focus on supporting the Americas Environmental Products Trading Business (carbon) team as well as the Americas West Gas & Power trading business. The work they perform will change over time and be prioritized based on value and risk, and professional development.

Will work with the business or functional support lines as the voice of Finance on specific projects/transactions

Intervene where other parts of Finance are not delivering to support business outcomes, to ensure the problem is solved leaving ownership where it should sit

Requirements

What we need from you –

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

Candidate must have minimum of 8 – 10 (eight to ten) years’ experience in power energy or in any related industry

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance is required; MBA is preferred

Broad finance knowledge and expertise with strong financial analytic, diagnostic, and economic valuation skills

Able to gain the confidence of various internal and external parties building on strong knowledge and understanding of the business drivers, value, and risk

Flexibility and agility to deploy the appropriate finance skills to address the specific and varying business needs across the pool they work in, leveraging a matrix organization

Problem solving mindset with the courage to ensure professional financial rigor is applied to commercial decision-making process and risk management bringing analytics and insights to the table

Ability to apply a risk-based, practical approach to problem solving, coupled with the ability to rationalize decisions with significant uncertainty and incomplete info

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