I was contacted via Linkedin for a Senior Finance Advisor - Renewables position at Shell. Does anyone know if this is a good position and the salary range? Thank you in advance.
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"Milking the cow and waiting for packages." For you naive newbies that has been a hot topic for decades. Even in a pandemic some things do not change. They dangle carrots of gold in terms of the job offer, then squeeze every last ounce of living tissue out of your soul and body. After your emotionally and physically spent, they will declare a reorg and you will quickly realize that you are have been 100%, unadulterated, unmitigated, royally, F'd in the backside. It may take 5 years it may take 10 years it may take 20 years. Your number is coming up because your too expensive. Things change, change is hard. Been there. Done that. Get the He$$ out of this giant corporation filled with incompetence and hypocrites. Get your own gig.
Yes, they are building robots with renewable batteries to take finance jobs away. Once you solve their problem, they will sh-t can you too
Renewables and Energy Solutions org is a bloated mess. You will spend the next 5 to 10 years worrying more about reorganization and divestment than you will doing your job as a "Senior Finance Advisor". I know Shell employees that have gone through 5 reorganizations in less than 10 years. Not a joke, not hyperbole. That said, Shell pays well and has generous benefits...if you can stay an employee. Frankly, if I were in your shoes, I'd get in, get a couple of bullets on the resume, and ditch Shell before they ditch you. Consider yourself warned.
Thank you everyone, the replies are very helpful.
Depends on job grade, if you are being recruited to a JG 3 which is likely the highest JG for external pions, probably salary of $175k and something like another 20% of base (although the bonus is based on performance and hardly anyone got a penny last year even the top performers were sent home with empty pockets). So you may end up with a TC of 210k ish but take it from me the New Energies group are full of total id--ts and they are simply milking the cow and waiting for retirement... Shell talks a big fight but employs and promotes a bunch of half wits with little to no imagination and promotes incompetents to do the managers dirty work. Toxic place heading down the drain.
Not sure when that recruiter reached out, but with the recent news of the Permian divestment, suspect some fine Finance folks will become available soon, so I wouldn’t quit your current job just yet…
External renewables headhunting huh… not that I’m surprised, but chalk up another fat lie from the LT about these type of positions being sourced in-house from staff with “transferable skills.”
To the OP- no idea about salary, but job security will likely be good simply because you’re supporting renewables. Hope you’re ok with working for a garbage business line that does nothing but suck capital from other parts of the company that actually turn a profit.
Bruh… This is where most upstream laid off folks bi--h and complain. Not sure you’d find much info here.
You’ll probably get a few F Us for helping ki-l their jobs too