Finance Advisor Lubricants

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, Germany

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 12, 2022

Business unit:

Finance

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in

Finance Advisors serve as the face of Finance for opportunities or challenges prioritized based on value and risk. They are responsible for the delivery of Finance capability required to support a set of clearly defined business outcomes across multiple activities/assets.

This Finance Advisor role in the Europe & South Africa Lubricants finance team has a core focus on Sales & Marketing business in Germany, partnering with the Direct and Indirect Business Managers as well as with the Sales Managers Industry Direct and Wheels Direct.

Germany is by far the largest lubricants market in Europe and the Top 7 Lubricants market globally. The German market is driven by export-oriented manufacturing and concentrated on industrial and transport lubricants. The Sales & Marketing team is selling finished lubricants and process oils to all sectors through indirect and direct channels.

Lubricants Finance Advisors, as part of a team supporting the end to end (Sales & Marketing, Global Key Accounts (GKA) and Lubricants Supply Chain) business:


Work directly with the business leaders, representing Finance with the business or functional lines and play the independent role in decision making effectively.
Leverage the combined capability of the Finance organisation to act as one integrated team with Finance Operations staff who provide most of the financial analysis and content for meetings.
Intervene where other parts of Finance are not delivering to support business outcomes, to ensure the problem is solved and leaving ownership where it should sit.


What’s the role?

The Finance Advisor will for a variety of activities/opportunities assigned to them by the Regional Finance Manager based on Value/Risk (e.g., performance management, large investments, complex contracts) depending on the requirements, of the specific activity:


Deliver the full suite of Finance support (including tax, treasury, accounting and structuring) autonomously and coordinate the involvement of Centres of Excellence above pre-agreed thresholds.
Independently ensure that a proper functioning control framework is in place and that risks are properly understood, reflected, and managed.
Independently ensure value and risks are made transparent and understood in both decision-making and in performance management.
Ensure a fit for purpose performance management system is in place.
In activities where Finance Operations and Business act together to deliver, lead/initiate structural improvement projects and leaves the accountability for delivery with the accountable people (the Finance Advisor is explicitly not acting as an ad hoc fixer to mitigate process performance issues).
Actively look for opportunities to reduce non-value adding Finance activity (“demand management”).
Maximise use of Finance Operations in delivery of processes and suitable MI.


Specifically, the Finance Advisor will also be accountable for:


Commercial finance support to the local Sales & Marketing in relation to non-standard business deals and projects.
Commercial finance support to a number of Global Key Accounts. This includes partnering with the respective core business account teams.
As Statutory and Tax focal point for Sales & Marketing business in Germany, ensure the business complies with existing tax regulations (e.g. new business models, new business promotions) as well as accuracy of business-related balance sheet positions (e.g. quarterly sign-off of statutory Provision & Accruals).
The Lubes Finance Advisor is a member of the Germany Lubes Leadership Team and plays a key role to ensure that all financial topics are adequately covered (e.g. Germany Lubes financial performance, Sales bonus delivery status)


The Lubricants Finance Advisor role will allow the candidate to gain valuable end to end experience across the lubricants value chain as well as gain new business development finance deal support experience. He/she will also benefit from:


Opportunity to contribute to the delivery of multiple business and function specific Finance agenda.
Broad opportunities for development from the broad area of responsibility, where there will be more variety and complexity in the experiences an Advisor will get over their job tenure.
Ability to apply Finance skills to a variety of business activities and gain better understanding of end-to-end value chains.
Enhanced peer learning opportunities (knowledge sharing) due to commonalities of activities performed by pool members. This will be more “pull” than “push”.
Developing the capability to quickly understand the value drivers, risks, dimensions, and business players of the business the team supports.
Learning how and when to appropriately leverage Business Finance, Centres of Excellence and Finance Operations to effectively support the business/function, thereby developing an ability to take overall Finance accountability.


What we need from you?

We are looking for a finance professional with significant experience in commercial business finance roles with active business partnering, financial and economic analysis, and risk management. Beyond that, we are also keen to hear from candidates with the following experience/skills:


Expertise across the spectrum of Finance competences, strong finance, business, and commercial acumen.
Ability to effectively challenge and influence whilst remaining commercially/bottom line focused
Ability to gain the confidence of various internal and external parties building on strong knowledge and understanding of the business drivers, value and risk.
Maturity and authority to decide when to involve Centres of Excellence and effectively play the independent Finance role.
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.
Project management skills and flexibility given the support across multiple activities/assets.
Ability to rapidly understand the specific business or function context for which activities are linked to.
Given the role scope and business stakeholders, a German speaker is required.


About Shell Germany

At Shell Germany, our drive is to employ world-class individuals. We employ 4,200 people whose careers have benefited from our industry-leading career development programme and unrivalled inhouse access to local and global experts. We are active in many areas such as Gas, Gas Marketing, Manufacturing & Distribution of oil products, Petrochemicals as well as Research & Development. Shell in Germany is one of the biggest retailers of energy products and one of the largest refinery operators. Our extensive R&D facilities in Hamburg allow us to offer a broad range of expertise on Retail Fuels, Lubes, and Marine, Power and Engine Vehicle Technology. Shell began operations in Germany in 1902.

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