Shell India | FP&A Manager

Responsibilities

• The role acts as a strategic finance partner to business and finance leadership, translating commercial drivers, operational performance, risks and opportunities into clear financial insights and actionable interventions.
• The role is expected to strengthen decision quality, drive value delivery, maintain financial discipline and accelerate the shift from reporting to providing forward-looking decision ready insights through data, digital and analytics-enabled ways of working.
• The ideal candidate is a commercially minded finance leader who combines strong FP&A fundamentals with curiosity, digital fluency and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• 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.
• Drive performance management: Monitor financial and operational performance against targets/benchmarks, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support timely interventions to drive competitive performance.
• Provide business appraisal and decision support: Apply value and risk lenses to investment, portfolio, commercial and operational decisions, ensuring options are evaluated with sound financial logic and business judgement.
• Partner across the business: Build trusted relationships with business leaders, finance colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, challenge constructively and influence better decisions.
• Develop capability and talent: Coach and develop team members, build future-ready FP&A capabilities and foster a learner mindset across business partnering, data, digital, analytics and process excellence.
• Lead integrated planning and forecasting: Own and coordinate planning, latest estimate and appraisal processes, ensuring assumptions, financial outcomes and business drivers are transparent, consistent and aligned with business strategy.
• Generate actionable options and recommendations: Leverage automated analytics dashboards to convert data, trends and scenarios into clear options, decision-ready recommendations and practical interventions that support senior leadership decision-making.
• Enable digital and analytics transformation: Champion automation, self-service reporting, driver-based modelling, scenario planning and predictive analytics to improve speed, quality and efficiency of finance delivery.
• Operate as a trusted finance advisor and strategic co-pilot to the business.
• Build capability by coaching others, sharing best practices and contributing to communities of practice.
• model learner mindset, digital curiosity and adaptability in a fast-evolving finance environment.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

Requirements

• Business partnering and commercial acumen: Ability to understand value drivers, business models, market dynamics and operational levers, and convert them into practical financial advice.
• Planning and financial decision-making: Ability to coordinate business planning, translate strategy into financial targets and link plans to milestones, actions and measurable outcomes.
• Financial modelling and scenario analysis: Experience in driver-based modelling, sensitivity & scenario analysis, risk and opportunity framing, business cases and investment appraisal.
• Data analytics and insights: Ability to validate, analyse and interpret data; identify patterns and trends; and generate insights that answer business questions and improve decision quality.
• Data management and digital acumen: Understanding of data quality, governance, reporting automation, dashboarding, analytics tools and digital solutions that improve finance processes with ability to work with AI.
• Storytelling and strategic executive communication: Ability to convert complex analysis into clear, concise and compelling messages for senior stakeholders, including recommendations and decision asks.
• Process excellence and continuous improvement: Ability to simplify, standardise and improve finance processes while maintaining governance, control and operational discipline.
• Stakeholder management and influencing: Ability to build trust, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity and influence outcomes across functions, geographies and leadership levels.
• Change leadership: Ability to lead through transformation, adopt new ways of working, build engagement and embed sustainable improvements.
• Significant experience in financial planning, appraisal, performance management, business finance or related finance roles.
• Proven track record of partnering with senior business stakeholders to influence decisions and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, value drivers, planning cycles, forecasting, business case development and performance reporting.
• Experience leading teams or influencing cross-functional delivery through matrixed ways of working.
• Experience with digital finance tools, data visualisation, automation, analytics or driver-based planning solutions is highly desirable.
• Professional finance qualification, accounting qualification, MBA or relevant business/finance degree preferred.
• Strong stakeholder confidence in finance advice, analysis and governance.

Shell

Shell's history in India goes back to 1928, when it began operating here as Burmah Shell. The group's parent, Shell plc, is incorporated in the United Kingdom and has been run from London since it simplified its share structure in 2022; its shares trade in London and Amsterdam, with ADSs on the NYSE. Shell is an integrated energy and petrochemicals group. In India it sells fuel through its own retail stations, blends lubricants at Taloja in Maharashtra and operates the Hazira LNG receiving terminal in Gujarat. It also has a technology centre in Bengaluru and a finance operations centre in Chennai that works for Shell businesses in other countries.

Chennai is where Shell's India finance roles are based. Current examples include FP&A advisers and managers, a controller lead role and analysts who handle trading settlements. Postings generally prefer a professional accounting or finance qualification, an MBA or a degree in accounting, finance or business, and one senior reporting role asks for an accounting qualification with ten or more years in financial reporting.

• Industry: Integrated energy and petrochemicals: oil and gas, LNG, fuel retail, lubricants
• Headquarters: London, United Kingdom (Shell plc)
• In India: Shell India Markets Private Limited (registered office in Chennai, office in Gurugram); finance operations centre in Chennai, technology centre in Bengaluru, Hazira LNG terminal in Gujarat and a lubricants blending plant at Taloja