Business Analyst Margin Optimization

**The Role**:
**Where you fit in**

Trading & Supply Products (TSP) is at the heart of Shell’s Downstream business. TSP has the primary responsibility of managing and optimizing the physical supply chain as well as creating value though proprietary trading. Our goal is to create value for the Shell bottom line, by maximizing the overall value potential across different lines of business and portfolios by delivering the right product to the right place on time at the maximum margin potential.

The Business Analyst Margin Optimization is part of a Margin Optimization (MO) team which supports in driving and managing decision making for the Chemicals & Products (C&P) assets and provides critical solutions in case of dilemmas and process inefficiencies. The MO team sits within the trading organization, and together with C&P, will be jointly responsible for optimizing the refinery assets.

**What’s the role?**

As a Business Analyst Margin Optimization, you are expected to:

- Close cooperation with Traders, Sales and Marketing from other CoB’s (Sulphur, Bitumen, Chemicals), Economists, Schedulers and Commercial oil operators on connecting economic steers into book movements
- Align daily with the products and crude traders about hedges and be able to explain the drivers of the exposure and P&L changes.
- Drive resolution on issues arising through E2E optimization between different CoB’s/ Trading desks and C&P with support from RTL MO
- Track and support the resolution of input/process inconsistencies.
- Drive improvement project to improve tools/process within own accountabilities, but also expect to be involved/lead in wider global MO projects to improve global bottom line.
- The Business Analyst Margin Optimization will help to coordinate, supervise, and challenge the input into the refinery optimization by the various product trading desks.
- The analyst is controlling the inputs of the books and ensure processes are followed to guarantee a quality outcome provided by our trading IT systems. He/she will support Root Cause Analysis and solving process / system problems.
- He/she is expected to be able to explain the drivers of exposure and Month to Month P&L and lastly closing the books each month doing a Mass Balance check.

**Dimensions**
- Covering Bukom refinery in Singapore
- Connecting different Class of Business, C&P, Trading desks, Commercial Fuel, Supply.
- Support / Lead the introduction of hedging for MO Actual.

**What we need from you**
- Commercial mindset
- Must be confident to raise issues and drive for resolution
- Knowledge on working with large amounts of data and keen to understand Refinery, Operations, Supply and Trading processes and ways of working and will have experience with the different trading and COB IT platforms and willing to learn how to connect C&P, Chemicals, CoB’s and Trading environments.
- Primary & secondary distribution and operations.
- Managing Relationships, Stakeholders and influencing skills.
- Price Risk Management, Contract Performance Management and Finance Reporting
- Supply Chain Integration & Optimization.
- Prior experience of and willingness to have hands-on involvement in the day-to -day exposure activities.
- Analytical, systems/process and accounting skills, with the ability to recognize underlying issues and develop appropriate resolutions.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Continuous Improvement mind set, able to identify opportunities and manage change by working with Sustain and Improve (S&I) teams and Process Experts.
- Understanding of trading techniques, market behavior, optimization, refinery logistics, and refinery optimization is of crucial importance.

**Company Description**

Shell is one the largest foreign investors in Singapore and began operations in 1891. Today, we have more than 3,200 employees in Singapore alone. The Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site today is the largest Shell refinery in the world in terms of crude distillation capacity, which makes Singapore a key regional supply and trading centre for Shell in the East. Singapore is the largest petrochemical production and export centre in the Asia Pacific region. Shell Jurong Island (SJI) manufactures petrochemicals to meet the fast-growing demand for these products in the region. We also have one of the largest single-branded retail networks in Singapore, providing customers with a wide range of quality products and services. When you join Shell in Singapore, you can count on our commitment to help you thrive and propel your career by means of our industry-leading development programme and our available and unrivalled pool of local and global experts. Our numerous global and local skill pools as well as our diversity are key to our success and continuing innovation.

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