IDT Advisor – Shell Energy Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 22, 2024

Business unit:

Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What is the role?

As an IDT Advisor, your role is pivotal in spearheading analytics initiatives and boosting operational efficiency at SEJ’s power trading desk. Your responsibilities will include:

• Analytics and Workflow Automation: Utilize your technical and quantitative skills to support the trading team by developing comprehensive market analytics suites. This involves engineering and maintaining market data, creating market analytics dashboards and forecasting models to provide actionable trading insights, and automating certain trading workflows to enhance efficiency.
• Consultancy and Collaboration: You will act as a consultant, shaping and delivering enhancements in partnership with the data analytics and ETRM teams in Singapore. Your expertise will be crucial in guiding solution design, developing strategic roadmaps, and ensuring the seamless integration of new processes and training.
• Supporting Growth Opportunities: From time to time as the need arises you may be asked to support business develop growth projects including assess integration challenges, technology competency and developing necessary models. Opportunities may include inorganic acquisitions or structured offtakes for BESS, Renewables C&I or Gas Fired generation (or other energy related deals).

Reporting directly to the IT and Digital Manager for Asia based in Singapore, you will primarily engage with the Shell Energy Japan trading desk team. Your contributions will be essential in safeguarding and enhancing the value of product and information management investments, working closely with the natural team as well as the trading team to achieve business goals.

Accountabilities

Your further responsibilities may include the following:

• Use advanced data analytics to create dashboards offering actionable trading insights. Collaborate with the trading desk to align tools with business needs, prepare documentation, and conduct user training sessions. Identify automation opportunities within trading operations to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and reduce human error.
• Engineer, maintain, and manage data to enrich trading analytics. Introduce new data sources, connect to external APIs, and ensure data quality and stability.
• Facilitate the onboarding of new IT applications, ensuring compliance with risk and security standards, and assist in engineering interfaces for seamless integration.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to plan the IT budget across portfolios, ensuring enhancements are delivered within budget. Regularly update stakeholders on costs and progress. Influence and align delivery with the portfolio/product roadmap and strategies.
• Ensure the stability, integrity, and performance of operational environments. Identify and realize improvement opportunities. Facilitate integration with other product/application delivery teams for end-to-end service delivery.
• Build trusted partnerships with various stakeholders, including Business Interface Managers, business partners, suppliers, project/product team members, and the IT support organization. Provide consultancy and occasionally lead initiatives in cyber security, incident/problem management, change management, and other operational activities.
• Collaborate with Data and Solution Architects to translate specifications into high-level design and technical specs, ensuring adherence to simplification and standardization principles.
• You may also be expected to focus on a specific product or project where you will play both a key delivery and strategic role. You’ll thrive as the expert and go-to person in the area for many of the design, strategy and other ongoing activities and initiatives alluded to in the list above

What We Need From You

Shell’s global Trading and Supply business is one of the largest energy trading operations in the world with key desks in Asia, trading in crude oil, natural gas, LNG, electrical power, etc. Our business in Asia has set huge growth targets for the coming years with a major focus on green and sustainable energy.

To accelerate our ambitious delivery goals and energy transition targets in Japan, our Japan energy marketing and trading desk team (Shell Energy Japan or SEJ) is looking for an IDT Advisor.

If you are:

• Seeking an opportunity to use your quantitative and technical skills to drive an ambitious vision for growth and net zero
• Committed to being the best version of yourself and helping others to learn and generate new ideas that make life better for you, your colleagues, and our business
• Commercially minded, self-starter with the energy and commitment to drive opportunities from identification to realization

Read on to find out more!

What is the role?

As an IDT Advisor, your role is pivotal in spearheading analytics initiatives and boosting operational efficiency at SEJ’s power trading desk. Your responsibilities will include:

• Analytics and Workflow Automation: Utilize your technical and quantitative skills to support the trading team by developing comprehensive market analytics suites. This involves engineering and maintaining market data, creating market analytics dashboards and forecasting models to provide actionable trading insights, and automating certain trading workflows to enhance efficiency.
• Consultancy and Collaboration: You will act as a consultant, shaping and delivering enhancements in partnership with the data analytics and ETRM teams in Singapore. Your expertise will be crucial in guiding solution design, developing strategic roadmaps, and ensuring the seamless integration of new processes and training.
• Supporting Growth Opportunities: From time to time as the need arises you may be asked to support business develop growth projects including assess integration challenges, technology competency and developing necessary models. Opportunities may include inorganic acquisitions or structured offtakes for BESS, Renewables C&I or Gas Fired generation (or other energy related deals).

Reporting directly to the IT and Digital Manager for Asia based in Singapore, you will primarily engage with the Shell Energy Japan trading desk team. Your contributions will be essential in safeguarding and enhancing the value of product and information management investments, working closely with the natural team as well as the trading team to achieve business goals.

Accountabilities

Your further responsibilities may include the following:

• Use advanced data analytics to create dashboards offering actionable trading insights. Collaborate with the trading desk to align tools with business needs, prepare documentation, and conduct user training sessions. Identify automation opportunities within trading operations to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and reduce human error.
• Engineer, maintain, and manage data to enrich trading analytics. Introduce new data sources, connect to external APIs, and ensure data quality and stability.
• Facilitate the onboarding of new IT applications, ensuring compliance with risk and security standards, and assist in engineering interfaces for seamless integration.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to plan the IT budget across portfolios, ensuring enhancements are delivered within budget. Regularly update stakeholders on costs and progress. Influence and align delivery with the portfolio/product roadmap and strategies.
• Ensure the stability, integrity, and performance of operational environments. Identify and realize improvement opportunities. Facilitate integration with other product/application delivery teams for end-to-end service delivery.
• Build trusted partnerships with various stakeholders, including Business Interface Managers, business partners, suppliers, project/product team members, and the IT support organization. Provide consultancy and occasionally lead initiatives in cyber security, incident/problem management, change management, and other operational activities.
• Collaborate with Data and Solution Architects to translate specifications into high-level design and technical specs, ensuring adherence to simplification and standardization principles.
• You may also be expected to focus on a specific product or project where you will play both a key delivery and strategic role. You’ll thrive as the expert and go-to person in the area for many of the design, strategy and other ongoing activities and initiatives alluded to in the list above.

What We Need From You

We’re keen to hear from individuals who have extensive experience within the analytics domain, who aspire to embed themselves in our team, grow into an advisor as outlined above and contribute to the growth of Shell’s journey towards net zero.

Suitable candidates will come with deep experience working as a data analyst, preferably in the energy or financial industry, with knowledge of end-to-end technology capability of the integrated value chain. Further requirements are as follows:

• 2+ years of experience as data analyst in commodity trading, the energy industry, or financial services.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, R, or SQL. Knowledge of statistical modelling is a plus.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Snowflake, or Tableau is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Committed to learning and staying abreast of internal and external trends and best practices.
• Capacity to cultivate and continuously expand expertise in the energy domain.
• Able to act as a focal point for a specialized area (technical or business), able to lead teams without formal authority, while managing multiple competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, being comfortable interacting with and able to communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to deal with conflict and ambiguity effectively.
• Team player. Able to work effectively with all levels and parts of the power trading business and IT organization.
• Ability to work effectively in virtual, geographically dispersed, cross-cultural environments.
• Fluency in English and Japanese (written and spoken)

Dimensions

Shell Energy Asia IDT team is embedded in the Shell Energy Asia business teams (including Shell Energy Japan), collaborates with global/regional IT natural teams and preferred vendors to deliver all IT needs for the business. We operate in a dynamic environment; our team is agile, ambitious and highly collaborative.

Skills & Requirements

Required Qualities

Business Partnering – Knowledge 

Product Management – Knowledge 

Communication Effectiveness – Skill

Consultancy – Skill

Facilitation skills – Knowledge 

Presentation skills – Skill

Human Centred Design – Knowledge 

Business Analysis – Skill

Business Change Management – Knowledge 

Agile – Knowledge – Knowledge 

Data & Analytics – Skill

Information Management (IM) – Knowledge 

Information Risk Management (IRM) – Knowledge 

Market Standard Services – Knowledge 

SHELL TRADING & SUPPLY (T&S)

Trading & Supply is the principal global energy trading organization and a key segment of Shell. The traded portfolio includes crude oil, refined products, LNG, natural gas, electricity, renewable energy certificates, and carbon-offset instruments. Larger T&S office locations are London, Houston, Singapore, Dubai, Rotterdam, Calgary and Barbados. Shell Energy combines the divisions Shell LNG Marketing & Trading; Shell Energy Americas, which includes Shell Energy Brazil, and Shell Energy Mexico; Shell Energy Europe and Global Environmental Products; Shell Energy Australia; and Shell Energy Asia. Key activities include wholesale trading, sales to Business-to-Business customers and optimization of the trade book including around Shell Manufacturing, Integrated Gas and New Energies asset positions. Business development activities grow the Shell Energy portfolio.

SHELL ENERGY ASIA (SEA)

SEA has been established in May 2017. It comprises Shell Energy Singapore, Shell Energy India, Shell Energy Japan, and Shell Energy Philippines. In addition to the downstream optimization of LNG, sales of truck-loaded LNG and natural gas, SEA markets and trades electricity and renewable electricity certificates in liberalizing Asian markets. SEA’s New Markets team is responsible for the identification, prioritization and realization of new country entries and downstream sales of LNG. Country representative offices in Japan, South Korea and Vietnam support business development activities and manage Shell Energy’s and SHELL’ interfaces with in-country key stakeholders. SEA staff maintain close links with other Shell Energy divisions and Shell Integrated Gas and New Energies.

SHELL ENERGY JAPAN (SEJ)

Since 2000 Japan has gradually and from 2016 more rapidly been liberalizing its downstream energy markets with a number of further developments planned for the 2020-2022 period. Accordingly, Japan has become an accessible market for Shell Energy to extend its global marketing and trading activities into. Domiciled under Shell Japan Limited and based out of central Tokyo, SEJ acts as Shell’s marketer and trader of electricity and renewable electricity certificates to wholesale and Business-to-Business customers in Japan. The core SEJ team based out of Tokyo currently comprises of the General Manager, Senior Originators, Originator Analyst, Senior Deal Structurer and Trader, Trading Associate, and Development Manager. External and government relations, business excellence and transactional support is being provided by functional experts based in Tokyo, Singapore and London. The SEJ team draws upon and contributes to global Shell Energy and Shell Integrated Gas and New Energies business development activities and best practices.

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