Job Description

, Philippines

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 1, 2026

Business unit:

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell's Downstream & Renewables Controllers organization, a global team of over 300 finance professionals based in Chennai, Krakow, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila. The team is responsible for both country and business controllership across a diverse portfolio of entities.

As a Controller, Local Reporting, you will lead regulatory and statutory compliance activities across the Americas and Asia, ensuring adherence to US and local reporting requirements. You will collaborate with senior business and finance stakeholders, engage with external auditors and regulators, and play a key role in maintaining a strong compliance and governance framework.

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance leader with strong technical accounting expertise, regulatory knowledge, and commercial acumen to make a meaningful impact. The role offers broad regional exposure, close partnership with senior leaders, and the chance to help shape the future of finance through capability building, process modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What you’ll be doing

The Controller, Local Reporting is responsible for leading statutory and regulatory reporting, compliance, and financial governance across a portfolio of entities in the Americas and Asia. This role manages a team of Local Statutory Reporting (LSR) and US/Local GAAP specialists, ensuring accurate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and continuous process improvement.

• Lead US external reporting activities, ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, tax, and financial reporting requirements.
• Oversee Local Statutory Reporting for Shell USA and Shell Petroleum Inc. (SPI), while providing governance and oversight across in-scope entities in the Americas and Asia.
• Monitor regulatory developments, assess impacts, and drive timely implementation of reporting requirements.
• Lead climate and sustainability reporting initiatives in line with emerging local regulatory requirements.
• Deliver high-quality financial accounting and reporting in accordance with US GAAP and Local GAAP standards.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to ensure audit readiness, timely issue resolution, and sustainable remediation of findings.
• Provide insightful analysis on financial results, key risks, and accounting judgments to support business decision-making.
• Drive proactive risk identification and mitigation across statutory reporting and compliance activities.
• Ensure strong governance, internal controls, and compliance with SOX and other regulatory frameworks.

Key Challenges

• Navigating evolving regulatory, statutory, and sustainability reporting requirements.
• Supporting a complex and diverse portfolio of businesses, entities, and systems.
• Building sustainable technical expertise and capabilities while maintaining high-quality service delivery.

Scope & Impact

• Lead a team of 5-10 direct reports and provide Local Reporting and GAAP expertise across Shell's finance organization.
• Support a large regional portfolio covering the Americas and Asia.
• Oversee reporting and compliance activities for numerous high-value, SOX-scoped entities with significant business impact.

What you bring

• Technical Accounting Expertise- Professional accounting qualification with strong knowledge of accounting standards, statutory and regulatory reporting, and financial statement preparation. Experience in US GAAP and external audit is an advantage.
• Executive Communication-Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with CFOs, executive leadership teams, boards, and audit committees.
• Commercial Acumen & Analytical Thinking- Ability to navigate complex business, treasury, tax, pension, and cross-functional matters, providing insights and practical solutions. Knowledge of Shell's business environment is preferred.
• Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge- Solid understanding of regulatory reporting requirements, ensuring accurate, timely, and audit-ready submissions.
• Stakeholder Management & Influence- Ability to build credibility and influence senior leaders, auditors, regulators, and cross-functional stakeholders, even without direct authority.
• Leadership & Transformation- Demonstrated success in leading across organizational boundaries, driving transformation, fostering high performance, and developing diverse and inclusive teams while taking ownership of outcomes.

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.

• Shape the future of energy while building a career that challenges, develops, and rewards you.
• Drive meaningful change at the forefront of technological innovation and industry transformation.
• Collaborate with highly experienced colleagues and industry experts whose unique knowledge, diverse perspectives, and global experience will help you learn, grow, and make a lasting impact.
• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Perform at your best with top-quartile global pay, annual performance-based salary increases, and a comprehensive benefits package that reflects the value you bring to Shell.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join a company that actively fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We welcome different perspectives and experiences, believing they strengthen our teams, enhance innovation, and help us achieve better outcomes together.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and global teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Shell Business Operations Manila

Shell Business Operations (SBO) Manila forms the operational backbone of business processes that help deliver Shell’s business solutions across the globe. We are focused on driving excellent corporate performance in Finance, Human Resources, Customer Service, Order-to-Delivery, and Contracting and Procurement. Diversity is key at SBO Manila, and our employees reflect the innovation that stems from a diverse workforce. By joining the company, you will benefit from an industry-leading development program that will see you tap into a pool of expert knowledge that will help propel your career.

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