Data Scientist

104465BR

Finance

Job Description

General Position Definition

• Finance & Data Operations Data Science Team is tasked with delivering tangible value to business units within Shell

through data-driven decision making.

• This position is part of Finance & Data Operations Data Science team delivering advanced analytics projects for different

businesses within Shell. The individual will join a growing global data science organization spanning both on/offshore.

• Incumbent is responsible for developing analytical models for projects collaborating with different business stakeholders &

other partners and working across a range of technologies and tools.

• The ideal candidate has strong background in quantitative skills (like statistics, mathematics, advanced computing,

machine learning) and has applied those skills in solving real world problems across different businesses / functions.

Purpose

• Develops analytics models using specialized tools based on the business problem and data available

• Identifies the right set of models and develops the right code / package to execute them

• Evaluates the validity of the model (both scientifically as well as from a business perspective)

• Support the Data Science Team Lead in design and execution of analytics projects

• Work with Shell stakeholders and subject matter experts to complete tasks and deliverables on projects

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement Skills

• Working collaboratively across multiple sets of stakeholders – business SMEs, IT, Data teams, Analytics resources, etc. to

deliver on project deliverables and tasks

• Identify actionable insights that directly address challenges / opportunities

• Articulate business insights and recommendations (based on model output) to respective stakeholders

• Understanding business KPI's, frameworks and drivers for performance

Country of Work Location

India

Company Description
The aim of the Shell Business Operations, Chennai is to provide the Group with operational excellence
through highlighting and utilizing process improvements and functional efficiencies as well as by
leveraging economies of scale. Currently, the Chennai centre provides a wide range of finance,
accounting and business services to Shell operating companies across several business sectors
globally.
Set up in September 2007, the Chennai centre has grown rapidly and now , in its fourth year of
operations , it has crossed the 1600 staff mark. The centre is located in the RMZ Millennia Business
Park, where the Shell campus is a LEED Platinum building with world class infrastructure. The business
is expected to grow further over the next two years and infrastructural additions to support this have
been planned.
The main focus in Chennai is on Finance Operations which supports delivery of the global Finance
functional plan. There is also a ‘Downstream India’ - Customer Services Team that handles lubricant
depot ordering within the country. The Shell Business Operations (SBO Team) manages the centre
facilities and supports business partners’ operations on site. There is a strong focus at SBO on safety
& well being of staff and on its three core values: Compliance, Intervention & Respect.

Requirements

Industry / Functional Expertise

o Provide deep business expertise preferably Oil & Gas - Upstream or Downstream businesses. (If these are not available,

willing to consider other industries that are similar or related - manufacturing, mining, power generation, etc.)

o functional expertise in any one or more of the following industry / functional areas

o Manufacturing / Industrial: Equipment Failure prediction, Maintenance Scheduling & Optimization, Inventory

optimization, Cost Diagnostics, Energy Management

o Customer / Marketing – pricing analytics, churn prediction, cross-sell / up-sell, Market Basket Analysis, Product

Recommendation, Marketing Mix Modeling, Campaign design and effectiveness testing, Network Modeling, Customer

segmentation, propensity analysis, customer lifetime value, profitability analysis, Customer experience (incl. voice of

customer), CRM, Loyalty program management,

o Supply Chain / Spend: Demand & Supply Forecasting, Spend Analytics, Vendor Scoring, Pricing analysis (buy-side),

product substitution analysis, product portfolio optimization, Tail spend analysis, logistics / network / route optimization,

Contract Compliance

o Functional Analytics: Order-to-cash, Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, Tax (Direct & Indirect), Financial Risk and

Assurance (controls and governance), Master Data Management, Inter-group / Intra-group

o Trading & Risk Management: Across Credit & Market Risk - Value at Risk (VAR), Back testing, Stress testing

o Proficiency Level: Skill

Modeling and Technology Skills

o Deep expertise in machine learning techniques (supervised and unsupervised) statistics / mathematics / operations

research including (but not limited to):

o Advanced Machine learning techniques: Decision Trees, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Support Vector

Machines, Clustering, Bayesian Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Feature Reduction / engineering, Anomaly
 deduction, Natural Language Processing (incl. Theme deduction, sentiment analysis, Topic Modeling), Natural

Language Generation
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o Statistics / Mathematics: Data Quality Analysis, Data identification, Hypothesis testing, Univariate /

Multivariate Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Classification/PCA, Factor Analysis, Linear Modeling, Logit/Probit Model,

Affinity & Association, Time Series, DoE, distribution / probability theory

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o Typically, each role will look at one of two of the above skills – not all of them

o Strong experience in specialized analytics tools and technologies (including, but not limited to)

o SAS, Python, R, SPSS (preferably two out of 4)

o Spotfire, Tableau, Qlickview

o For Operations Research (AIMS, Cplex, Matlab)

o Awareness of Data Bricks, Apache Spark, Hadoop

o Awareness of Agile / Scrum ways of working

o Identify the right modeling approach(es) for given scenario and articulate why the approach fits

o Assess data availability and modeling feasibility

o Review interpretation of models results

o Evaluate model fit and based on business / function scenario

o Proficiency Level: Skill-to-Mastery

o Special Challenges

o Rapid onboarding on projects, understanding analytics goal and working with ill-defined datasets

o Communicating technical jargon in plain English to colleagues within Data Science team and outside

o Virtual working with network of colleagues located throughout the globe

o Dimensions

o Support design and delivery of analytics projects, within or cutting across upstream and downstream business units in

Shell

o Experience

o 3+ years of relevant experience

o Advanced university degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Quantitative Finance, OR, etc.

o Good interpersonal communication skills and influencing skills

o Eagerness to learn and ability to work with limited supervision