Junior Finance Advisor

Are you an aspiring Business Finance Advisor with an interest in financial analysis and accounting? Here’s a chance to join the SDSA Finance team in a role where you’ll have every opportunity to grow your professional experience and make your mark. You’ll grow within a supportive, global company powering the lives of millions of people daily.

Where you fit in?

This exciting role reports to the South Africa Business Finance Manager and is junior role the Finance pool responsible for contributing to and delivering Finance support across the Downstream business in South Africa.

The Shell World Class Finance ethos of allocating resources based a value and risk will allow the successful candidate to leverage & 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 Downstream business, and involves 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 the successful candidate to driving end-to-end mindset in all decisions by providing relevant financial information and business insight to multiple stakeholders.

What’s the role?

As a Business Finance Advisor, your role includes reviewing the 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:

• Understanding financial performance and ensuring errors in reporting are rectified by the responsible parties
• Be a strong business partner, finding the right balance to 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 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.
• Ad-hoc support of trading deals, local investment proposals and drive focus on operational excellence.
• 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.

What we need from you? 

We’d hope to see as many of the following as possible on your CV:

• At least 3 years of experience in Oil & Gas or FMCG industry or the like
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably BCom/BBusSci Finance or Engineering degree with some experience in Accounting
• Financial modelling is a must.
• Awareness of Management Information and reporting for business & margin analysis.
• Proficiency in SAP, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Knowledge of planning, target setting and budgeting.
• Knowledge in performance management, appraisal, stock and credit management.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to gain the confidence of various internal and external parties building on strong knowledge and understanding of the business drivers, value and risk.
• 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.
• Flexibility to provide 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.

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To learn more about Shell’s recruitment process please visit our website www.shell.com/careers.

Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Company description 

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally, and socially responsible.  We have expertise in exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork, and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, while managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power 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.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential.

• We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there.
• We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
• We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
• We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you in finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.