Job Family Group:
FinanceWorker Type:
RegularPosting Start Date:
August 14, 2026Business Unit:
Experience Level:
Experienced ProfessionalsJob Description:
What’s the role
The Head of Reporting & Accounting is accountable for leading the delivery of high-quality reporting, analysis and core finance processes that support internal and external financial reporting, business appraisal and decision-making. The role provides strategic leadership across expenditure, revenue and hydrocarbon-related finance activities, ensuring reporting integrity, process excellence and effective stakeholder engagement.
The role acts as a senior interface between Finance leadership, Group Reporting, Business Finance and Reporting & Accounting teams, driving integrated ways of working, strengthening finance capabilities and enabling a connected reporting and accounting community. The role is expected to continuously improve finance delivery, enhance decision support and foster a culture of financial discipline, collaboration and professional excellence.
The ideal candidate is a respected finance leader who combines strong reporting and accounting expertise with the ability to lead people, influence stakeholders and drive organisational improvement. They are comfortable operating across complex finance environments, balancing governance and control with business value creation. They build trusted relationships, develop talent, champion innovation and foster an integrated reporting and accounting community that delivers high-quality outcomes and sustainable business performance.
What you will be doing
Lead reporting and accounting delivery: Ensure the effective delivery of reporting, analysis and key finance processes supporting internal and external reporting, business appraisal and decision-making activities.
Partner with senior finance stakeholders: Act as a key interface to Finance leadership, Group Reporting and business stakeholders, ensuring delivery of high-quality outcomes and alignment across reporting and accounting activities.
Drive process excellence and transformation: Identify, define and lead opportunities to improve reporting and accounting processes, standardise ways of working and simplify delivery across the organisation.
Enable integrated finance outcomes: Foster strong collaboration across reporting, accounting, business finance and finance operations teams to drive an integrated finance agenda and maximise organisational effectiveness.
Strengthen financial stewardship and governance: Ensure finance activities operate within established accounting, control, assurance and governance frameworks while maintaining reporting accuracy and integrity.
Lead capability and talent development: Coach and develop finance professionals, promoting technical excellence, professional growth and future-ready finance capabilities.
Build high-performing communities: Encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing and adoption of best practices across reporting and accounting teams and stakeholder groups.
Champion digital and data-enabled finance: Promote the use of digital tools, analytics, automation and data-driven insights to improve finance performance, efficiency and decision support.
Drive continuous improvement: Lead initiatives that enhance reporting quality, strengthen controls and improve operational effectiveness through simplification and innovation.
Support organisational change and transformation: Enable successful adoption of new processes, technologies and ways of working through effective leadership, communication and engagement.
What you bring
Financial reporting and accounting expertise: Strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting principles, controls, compliance requirements and reporting governance.
Business and finance leadership: Ability to align finance priorities with business objectives and translate financial information into meaningful business outcomes.
Performance management and analysis: Ability to interpret financial results, identify trends, assess risks and opportunities and drive performance improvements.
Process excellence and transformation: Experience leading process redesign, simplification, standardisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
Data, digital and analytics capability: Understanding of finance data, reporting technologies, analytics and automation solutions that improve decision support and efficiency.
Stakeholder management and influencing: Ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders and align diverse interests across complex organisations.
People leadership and coaching: Proven ability to lead, develop and inspire teams while creating an inclusive, high-performance culture.
Strategic thinking and problem solving: Ability to address complex business challenges, navigate ambiguity and deliver practical solutions.
Communication and storytelling: Ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly and effectively to executive and non-financial audiences.
Change leadership: Ability to lead transformation, build engagement and embed sustaina ble improv ements across teams and stakeholders.
Leadership Expectations
Operate as a visible finance leader and trusted advisor to business and finance stakeholders.
Foster an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing reporting and accounting community.
Demonstrate strong accountability for financial integrity, governance and delivery excellence.
Build organisational capability through coaching, mentoring and talent development.
Encourage innovation, simplification and digital adoption to improve finance outcomes.
Balance business priorities, financial stewardship, risk management and long-term value creation.
Role model Shell values, continuous learning and adaptability in a changing finance environment.
Experience and Qualifications
Significant experience in financial reporting, accounting, finance operations, business finance or related finance disciplines.
Proven record of leading teams, finance processes or large-scale reporting and accounting activities.
Strong understanding of accounting standards, reporting requirements, controls and governance frameworks.
Experience partnering with senior finance and business stakeholders in complex organisations.
Demonstrated success leading transformation, process improvement or finance capability initiatives.
Professional accounting qualification or relevant finance, accounting or business degree preferred.
Success Measures
Consistent delivery of accurate, timely and high-quality reporting and accounting outcomes.
Strong stakeholder confidence in finance reporting, governance and decision support.
Improved efficiency, effectiveness and standardisation across reporting and accounting processes.
Enhanced capability and engagement across the reporting and accounting community.
Successful adoption of digital, automation and process improvement initiatives.
Strong compliance with financial control, assurance and governance requirements.
Measurable business value delivered through improved reporting quality, insights and finance support.
What we offer
You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. 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.
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. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
international teams.
Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
An Inclusive & Progressive Place to Work
To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills, and reach your potential.
We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there.
We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Shell in India
Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalisation, and business operations.
Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.
Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.
Shell owns and operates a LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and a LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Sprng Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Sprng is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.
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. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.
We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programmes on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.
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- Financial reporting and accounting expertise (accounting principles, controls, compliance, governance)
- Business and finance leadership: align finance priorities with business objectives and translate financial information into outcomes
- Performance management and analysis: interpret results, identify trends, assess risks and opportunities
- Process excellence and transformation: lead redesign, simplification, standardisation and continuous improvement
- Data, digital and analytics capability: understanding of finance data, reporting technologies, analytics and automation
- Stakeholder management and influencing: build trusted relationships and influence senior stakeholders
- People leadership and coaching: lead, develop and inspire teams and create inclusive high-performance culture
- Strategic thinking and problem solving: address complex challenges and deliver practical solutions
- Communication and storytelling: communicate complex financial matters clearly to executives and non-financial audiences
- Change leadership: lead transformation and embed sustainable improvements
- Significant experience in financial reporting, accounting, finance operations or business finance
- Proven record of leading teams, finance processes or large-scale reporting and accounting activities
- Strong understanding of accounting standards, reporting requirements, controls and governance frameworks
- Experience partnering with senior finance and business stakeholders in complex organisations
- Demonstrated success leading transformation, process improvement or finance capability initiatives
- Professional accounting qualification or relevant finance, accounting or business degree
Shell Plc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Shell Plc and has not been reviewed or approved by Shell Plc.
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Healthcare Strength — Health plans include multiple medical, dental, and vision options alongside mental health support, FSAs/HSAs, and an Employee Assistance Program. These provisions indicate broad, flexible coverage embedded in the total rewards offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs combine a savings plan with meaningful employer contributions, immediate eligibility, and, in some markets, a defined-benefit pension. Access to share purchase plans and, for eligible roles, equity awards further supports long-term wealth building.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support features generous paid parental leave with global minimum standards, adoption assistance, and flexible working arrangements. Additional resources like backup childcare, family medical leave, and a Wellbeing Account extend support beyond base pay.
Shell Plc Insights
What We Do
Shell is a global energy company with around 87,000 employees in more than 70 countries. We work together to power progress through more and cleaner energy solutions. We serve more than 30 million customers at almost 46,000 retail service stations every day. Our strategy is to accelerate the transition of our business to net-zero emissions, purposefully and profitably. #PoweringProgress
