Senior Business Finance Advisor

**The Role**:
**Where you fit in**

Finance Advisors serve as the face of Finance for opportunities or challenges prioritized based on value and risk. They are responsible for the delivery of Finance capability required to support a set of clearly defined business outcomes across multiple activities/assets.

**What’s the role?**

As a Senior Finance Advisor, you will be assigned to a variety of activities/opportunities assigned by the Pool (Finance) Manager based on Value/Risk (e.g. control frameworks concerns, performance management system issues, large investments, complex contracts) depending on the requirements, of the specific activity.

Your more specific duties include:

- Deliver the full suite of Finance support (including tax, treasury, accounting and structuring) autonomously and coordinate the involvement of CoEs above pre-agreed thresholds.
- Independently ensure that a proper functioning control framework is in place and that risks are properly understood, reflected and managed.
- Independently ensure value and risks are made transparent and understood in both decision-making and in performance management.
- A fit for purpose performance management system is in place.
- In activities where FO and Business act together to deliver, lead/initiate structural improvement projects and leaves the accountability for delivery with the accountable people (the Finance Advisor is explicitly not acting as an ad hoc fixer to mitigate process performance issues).
- Brings new proposals of high value activities to the Pool Manager who decides on the resource allocation. For example (in initiating digitalization projects and acting as a connector between FO and the business).
- Actively look for opportunities to reduce non-value adding Finance activity (“demand management”).
- Maximize use of Finance Operations in delivery of processes.
- Will on specific projects/transactions work with business stakeholders to work as the voice of Finance to deliver as “One Finance” with the (CoE) and Finance Operations.
- Acts across organizational boundaries as required in the specific activity (e.g. across Finance for an opportunity across all DS CoBs).

**What we need from you?**

We’re keen to hear from qualified Senior Business Finance Advisors with minimum of 8+ 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’d hope to see as many of the following as possible on your CV:

- Expertise across the spectrum of Finance competences.
- A good understanding of the E2E Downstream value drivers including the Fuels, Convenience Retail and Power (Electric Charging) value chains.
- Price Risk management (hedging techniques and related accounting, hedging systems).
- Joint venture governance, assurance and financing.
- Hydrocarbon Management (understanding of different accounting methods between Trading and the rest of Downstream).
- 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 CoEs and effectively play the independent Finance role.
- 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.
- 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.

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**COMPANY DESCRIPTION**

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