Description
At Shell, Early Career talent plays an important role in powering the future of energy. We support talent at different stages of their career journey through mentorship and exposure to diverse areas of our business.
The Trading Settlements Analyst is responsible for supporting daily settlement activities for Shell's trading business, including managing commodity and non-commodity settlements, supporting reporting requirements, and ensuring transactions are processed accurately and within agreed timelines.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of customer billing invoices in line with agreed service levels and controls.
- Process payables within agreed service level agreements (SLAs).
- Handle settlement, contract, and pricing-related queries in a timely manner.
- Resolve process-related disputes within a short turnaround time, prioritizing high-value invoices to minimize working capital impact.
- Proactively follow up on receivables and ensure cash is collected on or before contractual due dates.
- Escalate overdue receivables and outstanding disputes in a timely manner with clear supporting information.
- Monitor and achieve process KPIs, providing appropriate rationale for any gaps in performance.
- Maintain accurate and timely operational trackers and reports.
- Manage settlement-related exceptions, including failed transactions and system issues, working closely with relevant stakeholders to resolve them effectively.
- Support contract and pricing activities, ensuring requests are completed within agreed service levels.
- Review and comply with documented work instructions, procedures, and escalation processes.
- Support month-end and quarter-end activities, including ad hoc manual journal entries as required.
- Participate actively in daily operational team meetings and contribute to continuous process improvements.
- Manage a high volume of transactions while maintaining accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related business discipline.
- Experience in Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and finance operations.
- Knowledge of Supply-to-Trading (STI) processes or similar trading and settlement operations.
- Knowledge of GSAP Contracts & Pricing processes or similar contract and pricing management processes.
- Hands-on experience using SAP is required. Experience with DEX and other trading operations systems is an advantage.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes.
- Experience supporting settlements, invoicing, collections, cash application, and reconciliations.
- Good accounting knowledge with the ability to understand transaction flows and financial impacts across AP and AR processes.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Knowledge of Trading Financial Crime policies and exposure to Trading & Supply (TS) operations is an advantage.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver within tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
What we offer:
- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
- Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
- Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase.
- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.