Sr. Functional Analyst

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What’s the role

As a Senior Functional Analyst - S/4 Group Reporting, you will identify and document client and stakeholder business needs, focusing on SAP S/4 Group Reporting Projects. You'll be part of IDT Engineering, delivering technical, functional, and consulting expertise. This role offers opportunities to work on IT projects across Shell's value chain, supporting your development through learning and certifications. Join us to grow your career, develop cutting-edge skills, and deepen your business knowledge.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with a portfolio of SAP S/4 HANA Group Reporting, gathering business requirements and delivering both large and small projects and enhancements in the Finance ERP portfolio

• Work closely with IT Managers/Product Owners and the Business to ensure that new requirements are understood and captured

• Drive/participate in requirements gathering workshops

• Assess and model business processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement

• Translate business requirements into solutions and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts

• Create clear documentation to communicate requirements and related information; keep updated to align with the solution over the project lifecycle

• Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs and requirements, through testing and scope changes, to final solution

• Interact with software engineers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are fully accommodated

• Create acceptance criteria for test scenarios and participate in the appropriate test cycles in order to validate that solutions meet business needs

• Define and maintain standards, methodologies, tools and knowledge repositories along with contributing to functional excellence in terms of standards, methods and tools

• Ensure lessons learned from market service implementations are identified, applied and acted upon

• Drive continuous improvement, lifecycle/portfolio management, and stable operations in all IT applications that underpin business-critical processes with end-to-end ownership of the portfolio capability

What you bring

• 9-12 years of proven project experience in the Area of Finance, Reporting & Consolidation

• At least 3-4 years of experience in SAP S/4 HANA Group Reporting (GR)

• Expertise in several of the following: General Ledger, S/4 Group Reporting, worked on implementation of S/4 Group Reporting scope item, Group Reporting Data Collection (GRDC), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

• Good knowledge in SAP FI area, ledger concepts and integration of FI - Group reporting

• Should be able to provide expert guidance to business users on Data monitor, Consolidation monitor activities

• Understanding of IT project management and project delivery methodology, including agile

• Understanding of IT security and compliance

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

• Ability to prioritize and multi-task

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, rapidly changing environment

• Strong engagement skills, working with senior leaders on a regular basis

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, .

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Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalisation, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates a LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and a LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Sprng Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Sprng is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centres across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programmes on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.