Shell India | Tax Transformation Lead

Responsibilities

• With overall responsibility for delivery, process design, controls, and the Direct Tax digital/automation journey, this role is instrumental in advancing a ‘Tax nirvana’ vision—one where automated, robust, and optimized processes underpin strategic outcomes.
• The incumbent will champion the integration of technology, drive end-to-end automation, and ensure tax technical rigor, collaborating extensively with cross-functional teams.
• As an Individual Contributor, works under broad guidance and supervision by Manager for complex activities
• 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.
• Our three capability centres across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector.
• Lead the Process design, documentation, and continuous enhancement of end-to-end tax processes, ensuring alignment with best practice and regulatory requirements.
• Design, develop, implement, and monitor robust Finance controls (alignment with Future of Controls), focusing on risk mitigation and process integrity throughout the tax lifecycle.
• Provide expert insights into direct tax Process automation, with a focus on leveraging automation and AI-driven solutions to enhance accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.
• Act as Subject Matter expertise (leveraging tax technical insights) to lead/drive automation agenda/projects for Tax.
• Drive the adoption of digital tools, intelligent automation, and AI technologies across tax function.
• Lead the MDT digital transformation roadmap, identifying opportunities for process digitization and efficiency gains.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to address pain points, implement best practices, and support the organization’s digital ambitions.
• Champion standardization and simplification initiatives to support operational excellence and audit readiness
• Foster a culture of digital innovation, upskilling teams and embedding a data-driven, technology-first mindset
• Establishes short term operational decisions typically within a one-year time frame
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

What you bring

• Experience on Process excellence, Digital and Transformation projects will be an added advantage.
• Proven track record in leading complex Finance processes including large-scale projects.
• Expertise in ERP systems, external tax tools & AI enabled technology.
• Direct Tax- Corporate Tax experience.
• Strong understanding of international tax compliance and reporting.
• Hands-on experience across Finance and Tax, with demonstrable tax technical expertise and automation exposure.
• Proven ability to design and implement process controls, leveraging digital and automation solutions.
• Digitally savvy, with a continuous improvement mindset and the ability to learn new technologies rapidly.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, strategic and critical thinking abilities.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated teamwork, collaboration, and adaptability to work across organisational boundaries.
• Has proficient knowledge of applicable tax regulations to conduct and present analyses of data to support organizational and management reviews, strategy assessment, tactics and policies.
• May be a manager or supervisor of skilled employees; Oversees routine tax activities such as tax return filing, data collection, research, and compliance.

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