Stm Tsa Asia Gas

**The Role**:
**Position description - Purpose**

Shell Trading integrates a global portfolio of crude oil, refined products, natural gas, electrical power, chemicals and freight trading based in the UK, US, Canada, Singapore, The Netherlands, Japan, Barbados, United Arab Emirates, The Philippines and Russia. Additionally, it provides marine expertise to operating units and manages a substantial fleet of vessels. The purpose of this position is to lead the Finance Operations team that is the sole provider to the Trading business of financial settlement and some specific accounting services for its various trading activities. Currently the team is broadly divided into two areas, North America (NA) and WONA (World outside NA). This role will specifically cover Global Energy Tradebook to Financials and related activities. The processes are complex, risky due to ever changing regulatory environment and often time critical; they involve working closely with different teams (Traders, Operations, FIB, Tax, Planning & Reporting, Financial accounting, Process Expert etc.) within the Trading business at the different Trading locations.

Each day, Finance Operations processes transactions worth billions of dollars with third parties for Trading and hence poor process performance would have a significant impact on Group profitability, cash flow and reputation. Trading also has significant transaction numbers and value with Group Companies, and hence poor process performance can create significant issues between Trading and other Group Companies. Additionally, the Finance Operations team will need to provide top quartile support for the future growth needs of what is a vibrant and continually developing Trading business.

The organization has now moved from start up to a new exciting phase of stabilization. Over the next few years, the organization will move forward to hit top quartile targets, through operational excellence and process improvements. Additionally, a key aspect of the role will be to manage and develop a maturing organization. This will include staff and position planning and further work on building business and process knowledge to underpin the ongoing operations. In addition, there are numerous new business opportunities/entities that are being set up and FO TS support to these new businesses is seen as a critical piece.

In summary, the role provides an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to quickly gain knowledge of a fast moving and exciting business, to gain leadership experience, and of managing operations that are progressing towards top quartile performance.

**Position description - Accountabilities**

Responsible for all T2F, Gross Margin, Disclosure activities and month close activities for Asia Gas & Power entities

Responsible for daily settlement activities for Asia Gas & Power business, presentations to senior management, process improvements, Adhoc requests and business queries, IGPC imbalance, etc

Responsible to manage activities due to any future growth Asia Gas & Power

Responsible for Stock valuation of all Global Energy Trading entities.

Develop and maintain a strong relationship with Trading, Commercial Operations, Financial Reporting, and Finance Operations to ensure requirements and expectations as well as issues are captured, understood and acted upon in a timely manner; keep abreast of new and changing business/markets.

Ensure that the Accounting group has the capability to effectively support the present and future Shell Trading Business and is organized to optimally deliver this support.

Help bring alignment across the organization through clear understanding of the key business drivers and the impact of each function on these drivers.

Ensure business-linked objectives and metrics are in place for each segment of the Accounting group, work closely with the organization to achieve them.

Constant view to improve systems and processes with an aim towards elimination of manual data capture, improving reconciliation capabilities and continuing down the path of straight through processing.

Assess the company’s need to be SOX compliant in certain areas and then drive the necessary level of compliance.

Work with and support the wider team to ensure accuracy of the Financial Statements through timely and accurate recognition of expenses and revenue.

Additional responsibilities include project management, system upgrades, enhancements, implementations and testing.

Support implementation of new business and associated system/process changes.

Ability to work with a ‘one team mindset i.e. offshore and onshore together.

Manage key stakeholders as appropriate on behalf of the Hydrocarbon organisation.

Where applicable provide a real time fall-back solution for critical Trading

Settlement processes.

Provide cross training within the Back-Office organisation.

Provide adhoc support and training to Back-Office and Trading Settlements organisations.

**Position