Junior Finance Advisor at Shell

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.

• 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.

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