Finance Advisor Mobility India

**The Role**:
If you are a Finance professional who possess keen interest in driving business value through robust commercial mindset and curiosity and maintain external focus, then this is a great opportunity to grow your career and contribute to deliver a world-class investment case, thrive through the energy transition and a strong license to operate.

**Where you fit in**

Shell's purpose to power progress together by providing more and cleaner energy solutions and the Finance function plays an integral role in achieving this.

In this role, you will serve as the face of Finance for opportunities or challenges prioritized based on value and risk. You will be 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 Finance Advisor for Mobility India, you will be accountable for a variety of activities/opportunities assigned by the 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:

- 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.
- Ensure a fit for purpose performance management system is in place.
- In activities where Finance Operations (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.

As part of a team supporting the business, you will:

- Work on various opportunities across multiple activities/assets and are not dedicated to a specific activity, asset or business partner. The work they perform will change over time and be prioritized based on value and risk, and professional development.
- Work 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.
- Act across organisational boundaries as required in the specific activity (e.g., across Finance for an opportunity across all DS CoBs).

**What we need from you?**
- Graduate of Chartered Accountancy with 3+ years post qualification experience.
- Expertise across the spectrum of Finance competences.
- 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.
- Capability to quickly understand the value drivers, risks, dimensions, and business players a (new) parts of the business the pool supports.
- Learning how and when to appropriately leverage Business Finance, CoE and FO to effectively support the business/function, thereby developing an ability to take overall Finance accountability.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global energy company where we work towards powering progress through more and cleaner energy solutions. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. In India Shell has its businesses footprint in Information Technology, Projects & Technology, Finance Operations, Integrated Gas, Downstream & Upstream spread across more than 7 main locations.

An innovative place to work

Join us and you’ll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition 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, everyone at Shell does their part.

An inclusive place to work

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