, India
Job Family Group:
Finance
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
August 14, 2026
Business Unit:
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role
The Financial Planning & Appraisal Manager is accountable for enabling
high-quality business decisions through robust planning, performance management,
appraisal, forecasting and decision ready insight generation. The role acts as a
strategic finance partner to business and finance leadership, translating
commercial drivers, operational performance, risks and opportunities into explicit
financial insights and actionable interventions. The role is expected to
strengthen decision quality, drive value delivery, maintain financial discipline
and accelerate the shift from reporting to providing forward-looking decision
ready insights through data, digital and analytics-enabled ways of working.
The ideal candidate is a commercially minded finance leader who combines strong
FP&A; fundamentals with curiosity, digital fluency and the ability to influence
senior stakeholders.
They are comfortable operating in ambiguity, translating
complex business information into clear recommendations, and leading teams
through change. They bring a disciplined focus on value, risk, controls and
performance, while continuously partnering with business to enable competitive
decision quality, business strategy & performance.
What you will be doing
* Lead integrated planning and forecasting: Own and coordinate planning, latest
estimate and appraisal processes, ensuring assumptions, financial outcomes
and business drivers are transparent, consistent and aligned with business
strategy.
* Drive performance management: Monitor financial and operational performance
against targets/benchmarks, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and
support timely interventions to drive competitive performance.
* Provide business appraisal and decision support: Apply value and risk lenses
to investment, portfolio, com
📌 FP&A Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Shell
📍 Chennai