Business Finance Advisor at Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)

What’s the role?

• As a Business Finance Advisor, your role includes the assurance of an appropriate business control framework, management information, business analysis and decision support as well as involvement in a wide range of projects that can only be found in a large multinational company (e.g. trading, FMCG, retail and logistics). The role will form a key part of the Finance skill pool and will expose the successful candidate to a wide range to challenges and learning across the Downstream business to develop well rounded finance professional.

Furthermore, your more specific duties include:

• Be a strong business partner, finding the right balance in supporting the business goals while providing challenge from a profitability, risk and compliance perspective.
• Promote a mindset of integrated value and trade-off in the business to deliver maximum value to the enterprise.
• Challenge for continuous improvement on cost management (Opex) through a flawless performance and appraisal process and regional challenge.
• Provide Finance input and support for projects to ensure value growth in line with business strategy and goals.
• Support and review investment proposals and focus on operational excellence.
• Demonstrate Organizational and Functional Leadership by ensuring country alignment with finance objectives and to actively promote accountability and teamwork behaviours.
• Provide clear and consistent business analysis that allows for timely decision making for the business in South Africa.
• Participate in the planning process as required with special focus on the operationalization of the agreed plan at local level.
• Ensure proper/ support/input from the country to the Business Assurance Committees and annual Business Assurance process.
• Interface with Mobility, B2B business, Aviation, Marine and Lubricants, as well as Corporate team.

What we need from you? 

We’re keen to hear from qualified Finance professionals with minimum of 7 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or BCom.
• Professional qualification such as CA, CFA or CIMA is preferred but not mandatory.
• Must have at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Experience in an Oil and Gas industry is preferred
• Experienced in financial modelling and analysis.
• Experienced in MI and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability in planning, target setting and budgeting.
• Knowledge in performance management, appraisal, stock and credit management.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate and deliver through others both in the finance and the business organization.
• 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 other parties 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.
• Awareness of Price Risk management including hedging techniques and related accounting, hedging systems.