Jobs at Shell in South Africa

This exciting role reports to the South Africa Business Finance Manager and is part of the pool of Finance advisors responsible for delivering Finance support across the Downstream business in South Africa. The Shell World Class Finance ethos of allocating resources based on value and risk will allow the successful candidate to leverage and showcase their strengths while giving them the opportunity to sharpen their development areas by working with other experts in both local and regional projects.

The role will have exposure to the Trading Supply and Operations business as well as attending and contributing to team meetings, developing a deep understanding of the business, and using Management Information (MI) to provide business insights to support decision making.

There will also be opportunities for you to mentor and coach junior members of the team to develop your indirect leadership skills and drive an end‑to‑end mindset in all decisions by providing relevant financial information and business insight to multiple stakeholders.

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 expose the successful candidate to a wide range of challenges and learning across the Downstream business to develop a well‑rounded finance professional. Further, 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 organisational and functional leadership by ensuring country alignment with finance objectives and actively promoting 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 operationalisation of the agreed plan at local level.
• Ensure proper support and 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.

We're keen to hear from qualified Finance professionals with a 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 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.
• Experience in financial modelling and analysis.
• Experience 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 processes 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.

Scam Warning: Shell does not request monetary payments (e.g. insurance policy, visa/work permit, HUET or HSSE training, special job offer, etc.) for employment.

Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.