Senior Business Finance Advisor

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, South Africa

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

February 3, 2022

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

As a Senior Finance Advisor, you will be part of the South Africa Marketing businesses (Mobility, Lubricants Sectors & Decarb) and Trading & Supply pool. You will be expected to interface with business Genera Managers/Leadership Teams and is also expected to play a lead role in coaching more junior members of the pool and managing some of the day-to-day resourcing activity across the entire pool. In this role, you will additionally support the Business Finance Managers on the business performance management and planning while retaining hands on involvement in more complex projects/deals/investments. As a senior member of the finance pool, the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate leadership in building and maintaining a strong One-Finance team approach leveraging Finance Operations and Centres of Excellence and engaging directly with more senior business stakeholders.

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.

What’s the role?

As a Senior Finance Advisor, you will be assigned to a variety of activities/opportunities assigned by the Pool (Finance) Manager based on Value/Risk (e.g. control frameworks concerns, performance management system issues, large investments, complex contracts) depending on the requirements, of the specific activity.

Your more specific duties include:


Deliver the full suite of Finance support (including tax, treasury, accounting and structuring) autonomously and coordinate the involvement of CoEs 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.
A fit for purpose performance management system is in place.
In activities where FO 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).
Brings new proposals of high value activities to the Pool Manager who decides on the resource allocation. For example (in initiating digitalization projects and acting as a connector between FO and the business).
Actively look for opportunities to reduce non-value adding Finance activity (“demand management”).
Maximize use of Finance Operations in delivery of processes.
Will on specific projects/transactions work with business stakeholders to work as the voice of Finance to deliver as “One Finance” with the (CoE) and Finance Operations.
Acts across organizational boundaries as required in the specific activity (e.g. across Finance for an opportunity across all DS CoBs).


What we need from you?

We’re keen to hear from qualified Senior Business Finance Advisors with minimum of 8 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:


Expertise across the spectrum of Finance competences.
A good understanding of the E2E Downstream value drivers including the Fuels, Convenience Retail and Power (Electric Charging) value chains.
Price Risk management (hedging techniques and related accounting, hedging systems).
Joint venture governance, assurance and financing.
Hydrocarbon Management (understanding of different accounting methods between Trading and the rest of Downstream).
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 CoEs 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.


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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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