Deputy Finance Lead at Shell

What’s The Role

• As the Finance Lead supporting the Finance Manager, you will work closely with managers, team leaders, and project group managers to ensure optimal performance across the team and the company. It includes assisting the Finance team with monthly accounts, financial statements, and budget variance analysis, while ensuring compliance with accounting standards, company policies, and statutory requirements. As the Deputy Finance Lead, you will also oversee accounting procedures, purchase ledger activities, and reporting obligations to third-party companies, as well as liaise with external customers on financial matters.

What You’ll Be Doing

• As the Deputy Finance Lead, you will ensure customers are satisfied by fulfilling all contractual obligations, acting efficiently, and providing outstanding quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Develop and manage annual budgets and forecasts
  • Provide justification for expenditure variances.
• Financial Reporting
  • Report monthly fleet costs and invoices in accordance with group requirements within given time frames.
  • Report to Finance Manager in respect of all accounting functions, providing supervision and guidance for all accounting procedures within the Finance department.
  • Liaise with auditors regarding accounting practises, year-end audits and ensuring all business requirements within the Finance department are adhered to and dealt with.
  • Tax and financial reporting in respect of, but not limited to, VAT returns, end of year tax returns and dividend payments.
• Compliance & Controls
  • Provide financial support and guidance to all internal departments in respect to current accounting practises and procedures.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Provide support to the fleet payroll functions to provide cover and assist with Fleet payroll requirements during time of absence.
• System & Process improvement
  • Maintain the costs reporting system in accordance with current requirements.
  • Provide guidance to other members of staff and departments regarding financial costs and authorisation procedures.

What You Bring

• A professional certification such as ACA, ACCA or qualification by experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or other related field or proven accounting experience
• Knowledge of financial software (e.g. SAP, Microsoft, Sage etc.)
• Flexible thinking, creative solutions, commercial mindset, self-starter.
• Excellent finance functional skills, competent with IT applications, desire to support and embrace change
• Familiarity with financial regulations
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Adherence to deadlines - Report on the Financial data; monthly, quarterly and annually, providing commentary on all variances.
• Collaboration - preparation and delivery of budgets to key stakeholders, interacting with external parties, auditors etc.