Trading Settlements Analyst

Location: SHELL CENTRE – CHENNAI

, India

Worker Type

Regular

Posting Start Date

October 26, 2026

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In our values-led culture, you'll have the opportunity to power your progress while helping develop the energy solutions of today and tomorrow.

What’s the role

The Trading Settlements Analyst is responsible for supporting daily settlement activities for Shell’s trading business. This includes managing commodity and non-commodity settlements, supporting reporting requirements, and ensuring transactions are processed accurately and within agreed timelines. The role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic global trading environment, collaborating with stakeholders across multiple functions to support efficient and effective trading operations.

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure timely and accurate processing of customer billing invoices in line with agreed service levels and controls.
• Process payables within agreed service level agreements (SLAs).
• Handle settlement, contract, and pricing-related queries in a timely manner.
• Resolve process-related disputes within a short turnaround time, prioritizing high-value invoices to minimize working capital impact.
• Proactively follow up on receivables and ensure cash is collected on or before contractual due dates.
• Escalate overdue receivables and outstanding disputes in a timely manner with clear supporting information.
• Monitor and achieve process KPIs, providing appropriate rationale for any gaps in performance.
• Maintain accurate and timely operational trackers and reports.
• Manage settlement-related exceptions, including failed transactions and system issues, working closely with relevant stakeholders to resolve them effectively.
• Support contract and pricing activities, ensuring requests are completed within agreed service levels.
• Review and comply with documented work instructions, procedures, and escalation processes.
• Support month-end and quarter-end activities, including ad hoc manual journal entries as required.
• Participate actively in daily operational team meetings and contribute to continuous process improvements.
• Manage a high volume of transactions while maintaining accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related business discipline.
• Experience in Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and finance operations.
• Knowledge of Supply-to-Trading (STI) processes or similar trading and settlement operations.
• Knowledge of GSAP Contracts & Pricing processes or similar contract and pricing management processes.
• Hands-on experience using SAP is required. Experience with DEX and other trading operations systems is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes.
• Experience supporting settlements, invoicing, collections, cash application, and reconciliations.
• Good accounting knowledge with the ability to understand transaction flows and financial impacts across AP and AR processes.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of Trading Financial Crime policies and exposure to Trading & Supply (TS) operations is an advantage.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver within tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Soft Skills & Behavioural Competencies

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders across diverse teams and cultures.
• Proven ability to work proactively and independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset, with experience supporting process improvement initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve operational issues in a timely manner.
• Customer-focused approach with the confidence to challenge constructively when required.
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy and compliance.
• Strong team player who demonstrates accountability, integrity, and respect while contributing to shared goals.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing business needs and priorities.
• Commitment to maintaining a safe, inclusive, and supportive work environment.

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.

Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

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.

Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalisation, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates a LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and a LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Sprng Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Sprng is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centres across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programmes on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.

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