Stadt Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Considered a highly motivated and enthusiastic person keen to augment financial and management skills by undertaking challenges in new and diverse environments. A team player, with a professional manner and a hands on approach, with the ability to work under pressure and across cultures. Commercially-minded, flexible, with excellent analytical skill, and a willingness to undertake a wide range of tasks.
• Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of Finance functional activity in relation to all Finance areas relevant to the business (e.g. reporting, management information, treasury items, tax compliance). Marketing encompasses Retail, Fleet Solutions, Lubricants and Lubes Supply Chain Businesses. • Maintain a robust Business Control Framework and ensure value and risks are properly understood, reflected and managed in decision making. • Own and operate a performance management framework that efficiently and objectively assesses performance, makes value transparent and sets the right targets. As part of operating this framework ensure Finance delivers actionable insights into performance including the use of advanced data analytics, benchmarking and other external insights. • Provide commercial Finance support to business opportunities, challenges, business models and strategy. • Maximise the impact of a Finance team of 10 direct reports: o Regularly prioritising all activities of the team and allocating staff to a variety of activities/opportunities on a value and risk basis. Optimising the value generated by a offshore Finance Operations Team. o Capability development of team members. o Manage the business/finance function demand for work.
• Steering, high quality Finance and Commercial support to the Business VP in the performance management process for the Europe/SA region, including planning and appraisal, end to end margin delivery and hydrocarbon price risk management. • Value creation to the Business by driving stronger financial performance, providing relevant and impactful information and commercially relevant insights for business decision making in a dynamic and competitive environment. This included the key driver on exposure management and hedging decisions, requiring a deep business understanding and the ability for strong x-business alignments • Leading overall EU/SA Manufacturing Business Planning process • Leading Finance workstreams in Integrated Strategy Reviews, gaining granular insights into the short-term and strategic challenges of countries. • Finance rep at a JV Pension Committee • Strong Delivery through others, by working physically remote with a wide team of colleagues and continuous, outstanding delivery of targets • Strong relationships with multiple key stakeholders
• Finance Manager for Shell’s European Engineering Function • Delivered first port of call high quality Finance functional and commercial support and challenge to business decision making and new business development (including first line support on price and exchange risks, Hydrocarbon and non-HC contracts, deal economics, Tax, Treasury and finance-process matters) • Ensuring alignment of rcapital spends with Group, Downstream and class of business strategies • Lead regional capital budgeting process • Finance rep for regional contract board meetings, ensured adherence to contract management principles and key Finance aspects while still keeping commercial mindset • Coordination of all due diligence activities for regional portfolio projects • Ensuring timely and accurate delivery of regional Key Performance Indicators and steering the business to focus on the key drivers to achieve the business strategy • Championed Post Investment Reviews