Job Description

The Role

: Senior Advisor – TCF Middle Office

Role Context: T&S is building a world class Trading Commodity Finance (TCF) team for managing deal structuring, post-deal execution management, and portfolio management. TCF has been a key source of financing for small to medium sized producers in high-risk emerging markets. The current loan exposure of the CBL portfolio is at $1.2bln shared across approximately 25 bespoke deals, and this is expected to more than double in size in years to come with the mandate of $2.4bln in Oil alone. As the portfolio grows, Shell will continue to review Finance and Legal resources, and where required, add to this team to cover any increased workload and risk/portfolio management. Role accountabilities- Loan Book Management and monitoring, SPOC for R&A/ Settlements and Other Internal Stakeholders: - Accountable for managing the deals assigned through the tenure of the deal including tracking the repayments and monitoring the performance of the deal - loan book management and underlying funds movement, liaison with internal stakeholders for accounting in SAP, reporting and reconciliations.

• Act as the focal for all regions from a Loan book portfolio in understanding deals in pipeline, deals in progress, waivers, extensions and seek reference.
• Deliver operational excellence in terms of Credit Risk processes such as reporting, invoicing, interest calculations, and tracking of disbursements/repayments to ensure zero value leakage.
• Support contractual risk management by tracking information delivery from counterparties and monitoring compliance to relevant clauses and covenants.
• Understanding of the Governance and Control framework to help raise control issues in the TCF deals.
• Interface with an extensive list of internal stakeholders relevant to a growing number of deals (e.g. trading desks, operators, finance operations, finance managers) on loan payments, offtake schedule, interest income accruals, trading margins, and other income and expenses.
• Act as single point of contact to interface with R&A, T&S for entries, ETRMs (DEX, ENDUR, etc.) support, and queries / clarifications from counterparties and other internal stakeholders
• Good understanding of Quantum that may be extended to the portfolio (presently the loan book for 1 entity is on quantum)
• Understand ECL, collateral valuation, cash flows and preparation of said calculations for quarterly/ yearly reporting purposes
• Participate regularly in TCF team meetings to understand, align on deal progress, strategy and other aspects.
• Manage the TCF SharePoint site and ensure records are uploaded and declared correctly and in a timely manner
• Support audit (internal/ external) through submission of adequate documentary evidence including contractual papers stored in TCF share point site

- A self- motivated, detail- oriented individual with finance/ accounting skills and good understanding of the trading and settlement systems.

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Requirements

Dynamic environment with high change management in systems, processes and people. Understanding of accounting and trading business to effectively question and challenge to ensure the general ledger is presented fairly. Exposure to Power BI would be an added advantage. Must possess ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work in fast-paced Trading environment, handle pressure well and deliver results in critical situations. Multiple trading systems: Konga Tool, Salesforce, Dex, Endur Open Link, Nucleus NextGen, SAP, Spotfire, Power BI.

Work Schedule

12PM to 9PM

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