Senior Finance Team Manager
- Recruiter
- Shell Business Operations
- Location
- małopolskie, Kraków
- Posted
- 04 Oct 2017
- Closes
- 07 Oct 2017
- Job role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Manager
Royal Dutch Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies, operating in over 80 countries and territories and employing more than 90,000 people. Our core values of Honesty, Integrity and Respect for People define who we are and how we work. Royal Dutch Shell has developed a global network of Shell Business Operations to provide first-class services to Shell companies across the world.
Shell Business Operations (SBO) Krakow sits at the centre of Shell's global businesses, providing an operational backbone to our essential business functions. Working in a vibrant community with strong values and a supportive culture, an SBO-Krakow job will offer the chance to build a lasting and meaningful career. As one of six Business Service Operations centres, located worldwide, a job in Krakow will give you the chance to interact and work with people across the world, helping to deliver excellent support to business clients and internal stakeholders as well as advanced financial operations. Senior Finance Team Manager Work location: Shell Energy Campus, Czerwone Maki 85
Job description: The Senior Manager will primarily be accountable for the financial statements within their area of responsible and will focus on specific levers to drive operational excellence in the delivery of the process. They will build a deep knowledge of the outputs required and ways of working to deliver these, along with the tools and systems that are an integral enabler of the process. They will work collaboratively with their peers within FR&A and other processes where operational excellence or data integrity impact on R&A delivery. He or she will drive a rigor for accounting standards, controls and data accuracy in FR&A processes, while collaboratively addressing performance and data integrity at the touch points with other processes within FO and beyond. The role also requires an ability to manage the appropriate metrics and drive interventions either directly or with escalation.
FR&A Senior Manager will display excellent supervisory skills and also technical knowledge of the process and its outputs. They ensure their staff have the right skills (functional, CI, Process & Data) to perform their role and will help their teams to prioritize and remove blockers when necessary. All team members will seek an understanding of how their role contributes to the bottom line for that business, and this needs to be addressed in the day to day operations and context for the team.
The role has responsibility for financial statement and performance of a standard Global FR&A process or processes in addition to managing and developing a community that could be between 20 and 100 staff in the Finance Operations Centres.
The FR&A organization will continue to focus on the resiliency & work life balance, recognising that peak loading can and will occur due to the monthly accounting cycle. The FR&A Senior Team Manager will ensure that this is mitigated as much as possible and will work with their teams and peers to create a pragmatic approach. Part of the solution to this will be flexibility in the team, and strong knowledge management for the process and its various outputs will enable short term flexibility and longer term succession planning and continuity.
Number of Vacancies: 1
Benefits of working at Shell:
Shell Business Operations (SBO) Krakow sits at the centre of Shell's global businesses, providing an operational backbone to our essential business functions. Working in a vibrant community with strong values and a supportive culture, an SBO-Krakow job will offer the chance to build a lasting and meaningful career. As one of six Business Service Operations centres, located worldwide, a job in Krakow will give you the chance to interact and work with people across the world, helping to deliver excellent support to business clients and internal stakeholders as well as advanced financial operations. Senior Finance Team Manager Work location: Shell Energy Campus, Czerwone Maki 85
Job description: The Senior Manager will primarily be accountable for the financial statements within their area of responsible and will focus on specific levers to drive operational excellence in the delivery of the process. They will build a deep knowledge of the outputs required and ways of working to deliver these, along with the tools and systems that are an integral enabler of the process. They will work collaboratively with their peers within FR&A and other processes where operational excellence or data integrity impact on R&A delivery. He or she will drive a rigor for accounting standards, controls and data accuracy in FR&A processes, while collaboratively addressing performance and data integrity at the touch points with other processes within FO and beyond. The role also requires an ability to manage the appropriate metrics and drive interventions either directly or with escalation.
FR&A Senior Manager will display excellent supervisory skills and also technical knowledge of the process and its outputs. They ensure their staff have the right skills (functional, CI, Process & Data) to perform their role and will help their teams to prioritize and remove blockers when necessary. All team members will seek an understanding of how their role contributes to the bottom line for that business, and this needs to be addressed in the day to day operations and context for the team.
The role has responsibility for financial statement and performance of a standard Global FR&A process or processes in addition to managing and developing a community that could be between 20 and 100 staff in the Finance Operations Centres.
The FR&A organization will continue to focus on the resiliency & work life balance, recognising that peak loading can and will occur due to the monthly accounting cycle. The FR&A Senior Team Manager will ensure that this is mitigated as much as possible and will work with their teams and peers to create a pragmatic approach. Part of the solution to this will be flexibility in the team, and strong knowledge management for the process and its various outputs will enable short term flexibility and longer term succession planning and continuity.
Requirements:
- 5 to 10 years of post-qualification experience or can demonstrate qualification through experience.
- Proven track of team management experience
- Experience of ERP systems, Microsoft Excel and business intelligence tools is a must.
- Good Communication skills and experience of stakeholder engagement.
- Experience of working in a virtual environment is required.
- English C1
- ACCA/CIMA/CA are welcome
Number of Vacancies: 1
Benefits of working at Shell:
- Meaningful work in a company that is universally respected as a truly global energy leader (one of the world's biggest companies according to Fortune Global 500)
- Unique opportunity to fulfill your potential with personal and professional development programs
- Work in a smart and motivated team within a supportive and inclusive culture with strong values
- Attractive salary and bonuses
- Complex medical care and individual life insurance
- Sports programme & facilities e.g. Multisport Benefits Card, vouchers for free time activities
- Good atmosphere at work and comfortable working environment: own canteen and a few relax rooms
- Opportunity to participate in social and community projects