Senior FP&A & Strategy Advisor

Shell

Philippines

On-site

PHP 3,200,000 - 5,200,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive benefits package

Training and development programs

Job summary

Shell Philippines (SBO Manila) is seeking an experienced FP&A Senior Advisor to partner with business leaders and translate performance into actionable insights. You will lead planning, forecasting and appraisal, leveraging analytics and AI‑enabled tools to drive growth and financial discipline.

The role focuses on moving beyond traditional reporting, delivering forward‑looking analysis, and coaching finance talent across the organization.

Qualifications

Minimum of 10 years of significant experience in financial planning, business appraisal, performance management, business finance, or related finance functions.
Proven track record of partnering with senior business stakeholders to influence decisions and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Strong understanding of financial statements, value drivers, planning cycles, forecasting, business case development and performance reporting.
Experience leading teams or influencing cross-functional delivery through matrixed ways of working.
Experience with digital finance tools, data visualisation, automation, analytics or driver-based planning solutions is highly desirable.
Professional finance qualification, accounting qualification, MBA or relevant business/finance degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead integrated planning and forecasting: Own and coordinate planning, latest estimate and appraisal processes, ensuring assumptions, financial outcomes and business drivers are transparent, consistent and aligned with business strategy.
Drive performance management: Monitor financial and operational performance against targets/benchmarks, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support timely interventions to drive competitive performance.
Provide business appraisal and decision support: Apply value and risk lenses to investment, portfolio, commercial and operational decisions, ensuring options are evaluated with sound financial logic and business judgement.
Generate actionable options and recommendations: Leverage automated analytics dashboards to convert data, trends and scenarios into clear options, decision‑ready recommendations and practical interventions that support senior leadership decision‑making.
Strengthen financial discipline and controls: Ensure planning, reporting and appraisal activities comply with governance, control, assurance and financial reporting requirements.
Partner across the business: Build trusted relationships with business leaders, finance colleagues and cross‑functional stakeholders to align priorities, challenge constructively and influence better decisions.
Enable digital and analytics transformation: Champion automation, self‑service reporting, driver‑based modelling, scenario planning and predictive analytics to improve speed, quality and efficiency of finance delivery.
Develop capability and talent: Coach and develop team members, build future‑ready FP&A capabilities and foster a learner mindset across business partnering, data, digital, analytics and process excellence.
Transformation & Continuous Improvement: Drive simplification, automation, digitisation and process improvement across planning & appraisal activities, leveraging technology, analytics and AI‑enabled tools where appropriate.
AI‑enabled FP&A governance and decision support: Review, interpret and leverage outputs from AI‑enabled tools to deliver high‑quality FP&A support, ensuring insights, forecasts and recommendations are grounded in robust assumptions, strong data integrity, sound judgement and disciplined AI risk management and governance.