# Financial Planning & Appraisal Manager

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: SHELL CENTRE – CHENNAI
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Financial Planning & Appraisal Manager is accountable for enabling high-quality business decisions through robust planning, performance management, appraisal, forecasting and decision ready insight generation.

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.

**Responsibilities**

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Strengthen financial discipline and controls: Ensure planning, reporting and appraisal activities comply with governance, control, assurance and financial reporting requirements.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

**Requirements**

- 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.

- Professional finance qualification, accounting qualification, MBA or relevant business/finance degree preferred.

**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 values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.

## Skills

### Required
- financial planning
- performance management
- business partnering
- commercial acumen
- financial modelling
- scenario analysis
- data analytics
- digital acumen
- storytelling
- strategic executive communication
- process excellence
- continuous improvement
- stakeholder management
- influencing
- change leadership

### Nice to have
- digital finance tools
- data visualisation
- automation
- analytics
- driver-based planning solutions

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