# FP&A Lead **Company**: Shell **Location**: Kuala Lumpur **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://shell.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ShellCareers/job/Shell-Centre-Kuala-Lumpur/FP-A-Lead_R210443?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fc8ddc55-3d7 ## Description The FP&A Lead is accountable for ensuring the effective delivery of reporting and accounting activities that support internal and external reporting requirements, business appraisal processes, and financial decision-making. The role leads complex reporting operations, drives process improvements, and ensures the quality, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting outputs. The role partners closely with Reporting & Accounting Managers, Finance Leadership, Group Reporting, and other finance stakeholders to strengthen reporting effectiveness, resolve reporting issues, and improve end-to-end reporting processes. **Key Accountabilities:** - Lead reporting and accounting delivery: Ensure high-quality execution of reporting and accounting activities supporting internal and external financial reporting requirements. - Drive reporting excellence: Maintain the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of reporting outputs while ensuring compliance with accounting standards, governance requirements, and reporting policies. - Lead transformation and improvement initiatives: Manage and deliver change programmes that enhance reporting effectiveness, simplify processes, and improve finance performance. - Partner with reporting and finance leaders: Work closely with Reporting & Accounting Managers, Group Reporting, and finance stakeholders to align priorities and improve reporting outcomes. - Resolve complex reporting issues: Provide expert guidance on reporting content, accounting matters, and process challenges to ensure consistent and high-quality delivery. - Strengthen financial governance and controls: Ensure reporting activities operate within established control, assurance, and compliance frameworks. - Develop finance capability: Coach and develop reporting and accounting professionals, strengthening technical capability, leadership effectiveness, and future readiness. - Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing: Promote best practice adoption, cross-team collaboration, and continuous learning across the reporting and accounting community. - Champion digital and data-driven finance: Leverage automation, analytics, and digital tools to improve reporting efficiency, transparency, and insight generation. - Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, standardisation, and service quality across reporting and accounting activities. **Required Skills and Capabilities:** - Financial reporting and accounting expertise: Deep understanding of financial reporting, accounting principles, financial close processes, and governance requirements. - Reporting process management: Experience overseeing reporting activities, reporting cycles, and financial information delivery across complex organisations. - Finance transformation and change leadership: Ability to lead large-scale change initiatives, process redesign, and operational improvements. - Problem-solving and technical judgement: Ability to resolve complex reporting issues and balance technical accounting requirements with business needs. - Performance and service delivery management: Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain delivery excellence, and drive operational performance. - Data and analytics capability: Understanding of reporting systems, financial data, automation, and analytics solutions that improve finance outcomes. - Stakeholder management and influencing: Ability to engage effectively with reporting teams, finance leaders, and business stakeholders across organisational boundaries. - People leadership and coaching: Experience developing teams, managing performance, and building strong technical and leadership capability. - Communication and executive engagement: Ability to communicate complex reporting matters clearly and provide meaningful insights to stakeholders. - Continuous improvement mindset: Demonstrated ability to simplify, standardise, and optimise finance processes while maintaining strong governance. **Experience and Qualifications:** - Significant experience in financial reporting, accounting, controllership, finance operations, or related finance disciplines. - Proven leadership experience managing teams, reporting activities, or complex finance delivery environments. - Strong understanding of accounting standards, reporting requirements, governance frameworks, and financial controls. - Demonstrated success leading reporting improvements, transformation initiatives, or operational excellence programmes. - Experience partnering with senior finance stakeholders and influencing organisational outcomes. - Professional accounting qualification or relevant finance, accounting, or business degree preferred. ## Skills ### Required - financial reporting - accounting principles - reporting process management - finance transformation - problem-solving - data and analytics - stakeholder management - people leadership --- Source: [Apply at shell.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://shell.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ShellCareers/job/Shell-Centre-Kuala-Lumpur/FP-A-Lead_R210443?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)