What's the role

Shell Energy Australia (SEAu) is a trading business operating within an integrated value chain encompassing generation, trading, and retail. The business derives value from proprietary trading, asset-backed trading, and integration and optimisation across the power and gas value chain in Australia. SEAu operates in an external context where the markets and regulations continue to evolve in response to energy security and the energy transition.

The Senior Finance Advisor Trading is a commercially oriented role designed to support the dynamic gas and power trading organisation. Collaborating closely with the commercial teams, you will play a vital role in maximising value from current and future opportunities while effectively managing and mitigating associated risks.

What you'll be doing

As a business finance professional you will engage in diverse activities:

• Collaborate with various Commercial teams to formulate and enhance strategic objectives, and convert the strategy into practical plans with clear visibility of value and risk.
  
• Provide Finance leadership and expertise to various Commercial teams on deal opportunities, and independently deliver comprehensive Finance support (including tax, treasury, accounting, and structuring), while coordinating with other Finance experts as needed.
  
• Maintain an effective business performance management system while delivering valuable, proactive, and practical insights to business stakeholders aimed at enhancing business performance.
  
• Protect the business' long-term health by maintaining and improving the company's performance framework.
  
• Ensure effective governance, understanding, and compliance of the Mandate, Manual of Authorities, Deal Approval Process, and other investment standards.
  
• Contribute to key external compliance requirements (e.g. Australian Financial Services License, regulatory requests).
  
• Manage the implementation of key improvement projects through the lens of Process, Data, and Systems to strengthen control frameworks and/or drive process efficiency/effectiveness.
  
• Create initial solutions to ensure that all aspects of Finance and Market Risk are clear on the introduction of new products, such as Battery Energy Storage Systems and Renewable Generation.
  
• Collaborate across boundaries to gather internal and external insights applicable to the local Australian context.
  

You will thrive in:

• Interfacing with multiple stakeholders across the business and beyond including Generation, Retail, and the Australian Integrated Gas business to support the drive for integrated value and risk management.
  
• Ensuring a robust performance framework which evolves in line with the risks within the business.
  
• Driving business performance management excellence by promoting transparency and a thorough understanding of value and risk.
  
• Striking the appropriate balance between detailed analysis for data-driven insights and high-level strategic and tactical oversight.
  

What you bring

We are keen to speak to Finance professionals with commercial finance acumen, experience and understanding of opportunity maturation, and an aptitude for complex accounting issues. Furthermore:

• Qualifications & Licenses: CA/CPA designation or equivalent
  
• Demonstrated Finance knowledge and expertise with strong financial, analytical, and economic valuation skills
  
• A working understanding of commodity trading across the lifecycle of a deal, and how this translates to financial outcomes is advantageous
  
• Knowledge of financial and physical energy markets, contractual arrangements, and the Australian energy market is beneficial
  
• Experience in the origination and structuring of transactions involving financing is valuable
  
• Exposure to market risk control frameworks and concepts is important
  
• Business partnering experience and well-developed relationship building and influencing skills are critical
  
• Able to quickly establish credibility with business leaders and trading desks
  
• Commercial orientation with the ability to operate within a dynamic rapidly changing environment
  
• Practical mindset, getting things done, and achieving high-quality results
  

APPLICATION PERIOD WILL RUN UNTIL APRIL 29.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
  
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
  
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
  
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
  
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
  
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
  
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase - our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
  
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
  
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
  
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
  
• international teams.
  
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
  

Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here .

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn't feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we'd still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Shell in Australia

Shell has operated in Australia since 1901. From operating Australia's first oil refinery, which was central to meeting Australia's fuel needs, to fuelling the first Qantas commercial flight in the 1920s, to playing a foundation role in building some of Australia's largest and most innovative natural resource developments.

Throughout this 124-year relationship the needs of our customers and the nation have changed and we have continued transforming our portfolio to meet these needs. Today, we are a leading natural gas producer and are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities.

Shell has a significant Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business in Australia that makes a valuable contribution to today's energy supply. This integrated gas portfolio includes our two Shell-operated gas production and liquefaction businesses, Shell QGC in Queensland and Prelude Floating LNG offshore in Western Australia, and our joint venture interests in Gorgon and North West Shelf in Western Australia and Arrow Energy in Queensland.

Today, Shell's portfolio in Australia also includes zero- and low-carbon energy businesses such as commercial and industrial retailer, Shell Energy carbon farming specialist, Select Carbon the 120MW Gangarri solar development; residential energy retailer, Powershop Australia a 49% stake in WestWind Australia a 50% share of Kondinin Energy and several grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Solutions projects. High quality Shell branded fuels and lubricants are available right across Australia, through an exclusive brand license arrangement with Viva Energy.