PAR Advisor Crude amp Products Americas

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

August 9, 2022

Business unit:

Finance

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What is the purpose

The role provides insightful analysis into the financial performance of Crude & Products Trading & Supply (T&S) in the Americas both for internal management and external analysts, and both historic (actuals) and forward-looking (Latest Estimate, Plan, Strategy). Primary customers are Business General Managers, Downstream and Upstream PAR.

As a member of the T&S Oil PAR team, the role will engage with counterparts in different businesses with the opportunity to share learnings across businesses as well as the Technical & Derivative Accounting team – to ensure a holistic understanding of commercial and accounting drivers underpinning the performance and commitments of T&S Crude & Products.

A focus area is to drive momentum on remedial action addressing shortcomings in underlying data, processes, and systems, which represent a major challenge to delivery of the above. This also means working closely with the Digitalization, Data & Process Integrity Lead as well as colleagues in Hydrocarbon Management (HCM), Reporting & Analysis (R&A) and the Risk organization to ensure that solutions that will improve bottom-up the flow of data across all relevant systems are ultimately consistent with being able to provide more insight to decision-makers at all levels.

A heightened focus area in the short-term will be to help individual business segments (Chemicals & Products, Marketing, Upstream) understand the current and potential future value-add from Shell’s oil trading & supply capability. This is already required both for internal MI as well as external reporting purposes but will undergo a major re-appraisal under Shell’s new Transition/Growth strategy and our ambition to lead a global de-carbonization agenda on a sector-by-sector basis.

Planning Appraisal & Reporting (PAR) Advisor Crude and Products Americas

What is the role

As a Planning Appraisal & Reporting (PAR) Advisor Crude and Products Americas , you will be responsible for the following business objectives and the duties:


As a trusted advisor to the Crude and Products T&S leadership teams, ensure ultimate delivery of insightful, accurate and timely business performance reporting and enable greater transparency of value drivers that improve decision making. Key quarterly deliverables include Monthly Financial Results and slides for Local Webcasts. Analysis needs to cover both internal T&S performance metrics as well as external/published financial metrics (e.g. Clean earnings, Cashflow from Operations).
Deliver all forward-looking business performance analysis (Latest Estimates, Business Monitoring, Annual Operating Plan) that enable T&S leadership to make timely decisions regarding priorities, constrained resources and response to external opportunities & threats.
Adopt a Controllers’ mindset throughout the quarterly financial reporting process and remain vigilant to gaps or errors in existing processes and data integrity as/when these arise in close collaboration with the Technical & Derivative Accounting teams, but also HCM, R&A, Risk and Finance Advisor colleagues. Manage interactions with all stakeholders across respective teams and ensure alignment on Global principles for T&S.
As required, assist Group Reporting, Investor Relations and the Reporting and Performance Management (RPM) Leadership Team in securing answers to questions related to T&S Classes of Business (CoBs), working closely with the appropriate Finance Advisors or other internal stakeholders.
Demonstrate and pro-actively champion a continuous improvement mindset throughout the Extended Oil RPM team (i.e. including R&A as well as Technical & Derivative Accounting). Challenge the status quo in order to free up time for structural improvements, constantly encouraging RPM and R&A to streamline, simplify and - where feasible - standardize processes.
Deliver various ad-hoc analysis as required for Group and T&S stakeholders.


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 a minimum 10 (ten) of years working experience in Trading or in any work-related industry
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting is required
Experience in Financial Planning and Appraisal
Stakeholder Management – ability to quickly build relationships with stakeholders at differing levels of the organization
Influence without Formal authority & delivering through others – Shell has a matrix structure and the person in this role will be expected to lead and co-ordinate delivery of tasks through different teams within Shell including our Shell Business Service Centre teams.


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.

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