Business Finance Advisor

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, South Africa

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 18, 2021

Business unit:

Finance

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Are you an experienced Business Finance Advisor with specialization on financial analysis and accounting? Here’s a chance to apply your finance specialties to a role where you’ll have every opportunity to grow your professional experience and make your mark. You’ll grow within a supportive, global company powering the lives of billions.

Where you fit in

This exciting role reports to the South Africa Business Finance Manager and is responsible for delivering Finance support across the Downstream business in South Africa.

The Shell World Class Finance ethos of allocating resources based a value and risk will allow the successful candidate to leverage & showcase their strengths while giving them the opportunity to sharpen their development areas by working with other experts in both local and regional projects. The role will have exposure to the Trading Supply and Commercial Fuels business as well as Retail and involves attending and contributing to team meetings, developing a deep understanding of the business, and using Management Information (MI) to provide business insights to support decision making. There will also be opportunities for you to mentor and coach the junior members of the team to develop your indirect leadership skills and driving end to end mindset in all decision by providing relevant financial information and business insight to multiple stakeholders.

What’s the role?

As a Business Finance Advisor, your role includes the assurance of an appropriate business control framework, management information, business analysis and decision support as well as involvement in a wide range of projects that can only be found in a large multinational company (e.g. trading, FMCG, retail and logistics). The role will form a key part of the Finance skill pool and will expose the successful candidate to a wide range to challenges and learning across the Downstream business to develop well rounded finance professional.

Furthermore, your more specific duties include:


Be a strong business partner, finding the right balance to supporting the business goals while providing challenge from a profitability, risk and compliance perspective.
Promote a mindset of integrated value and trade-off in the business to deliver maximum value to the enterprise.
Challenge for continuous improvement on cost management through a flawless performance and appraisal process and regional challenge.
Provide Finance input and support for projects to ensure value growth in line with business strategy and goals.
Support trading deals, local investment proposals and drive focus on operational excellence.
Demonstrate Organizational and Functional Leadership by ensuring country alignment with finance objectives and to actively promote accountability and teamwork behaviours.
Provide clear and consistent business analysis that allows for timely decision making for the business in South Africa.
Participate in the planning process as required with special focus on the operationalization of the agreed plan at local level.
Ensure proper/ support/input from the country to the Business Assurance Committees and annual Business Assurance process.
Interface at local level with Manufacturing, Mobility, Lubricants, Aviation and Marine as well as Corporate team.


What we need from you?

We’re keen to hear from qualified Business Finance Advisors with minimum of 4 years’ experience in finance or accounting, background in FMCG, Retail or Oil & Gas industry and someone who has worked in a multinational company.

Beyond that, we’d hope to see as many of the following as possible on your CV:


Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or BCom. A professional qualification such as CA, CFA or CIMA is preferred but not mandatory.
Experienced in financial modelling, valuation & analysis.
Experienced in MI and reporting for the business & margin analysis.
Demonstrated ability in planning, target setting and budgeting.
Knowledge in performance management, appraisal, stock and credit management.
Team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate and deliver through others both in the finance and the business organization.
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 other parties 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 in the pool concept are linked to.
Awareness of Price Risk management including hedging techniques and related accounting, hedging systems.


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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

The world faces energy challenges that are becoming more complex each day. We’re looking for people who share our passion for taking on those challenges with cutting edge technology, innovative thinking and a commitment to properly managed risk. Shell develops and operates some of the largest and most complex projects in the world and we always endeavour to work at the leading edge of technical innovation.

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.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…


We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply and we’ll take it from there.
We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.


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.

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According to the United Nations, the global population could increase to more than 10 billion people. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to meet the growing demand for energy, with less carbon emissions. We need people who dare to think differently – to take part in developing tomorrow’s energy solutions today.

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