Downstream Process Excellence Lead

, India Job Family Group: Finance Worker Type: Regular Posting Start Date: October 20, 2026 Business Unit: Finance Experience Level: Experienced Professionals Job Description: Where you fit in If you like transforming and impacting the business and the process, with a passion for accounting, reporting and analysis and innovation, this could be your chance to make your mark in the energy industry. You will grow in a supportive team that champions process custodianship, improvement and transformation, projects and portfolio management and product ownership, in support of R&A’s aspiration of becoming an Accounting and Insights Powerhouse. • The Downstream Reporting & Analysis (R&A) Organisation is a team of >900 colleagues providing accurate, timely and insightful finance and accounting and analysis to deliver more and cleaner energy solutions. • Within the Downstream Reporting & Analysis is the Process Excellence Team which is responsible for leading and guarding the process, covering Planning and Appraisal (PAR), Finance Accounting and Controlling (FAC), and Period End (PE), for different Classes of Business (COB) (namely Mobility, Lubricants, Low Carbon Solution, Products and Chemicals). • This role will report to the global Downstream Process Excellence Manager and is directly responsible for projects delivery, working closely through cross-horizontal collaboration and integration with the R&A Downstream Operations Teams – Controllers and PAR, Process Owners Team, MI Centre of Excellence (COE), Finance in the Business (FitB), Process Digital Interface and other teams within Shell. What’s the role? • The DS Process Excellence Lead is responsible for leading the delivery of Efficiency, Effectiveness, Finance Digital Core, and/or Governance portfolio of projects, leading various Operations Teams towards realizing efficiency opportunities and/or strengthening process effectiveness and governance. • Manage initiatives, covering from ideation and opportunity building, demand management, design and build, implementation/delivery, go-live, to hyper-care: • Specific projects and initiatives may fall and/or overlap within the functions of planning and appraisal, financial accounting and controlling, financial closing/period-end activities. • Specific projects and initiatives may be standalone projects directly local to Downstream, or as part of a portfolio/program mandated by Group due to data, systems, and/or business changes (as in the case of growth investments and divestments). • Specific projects and initiatives may lead and managed as part of the direct scope of Process Excellence, and/or as a portfolio/program managed in collaboration with R&A Operations Teams, MI COE, Finance in the Business, other PE teams within and beyond R&A, etc. • Lead the change management, readiness (people, process, and/or systems, as applicable) and delivery reporting requirements of the projects and initiatives, to ensure optimal visibility, timely senior sponsorship and support, sufficient insights at decision review boards (DRB) as required, as well as appropriate resourcing and capabilities, among others, from ideation to hyper-care and stabilization. • Lead the project requirements profiling, business and process impact assessments, and risk management assessments, and subsequently communicate such to proper levels of sponsorships and stakeholders. …