Sr. Sanctions Advisor - Trading & Supply

Overview

In this role, you will lead Shell’s global sanctions compliance for Trading and Supply, shaping policy, controls, and training. You’ll advise senior leadership on high‑risk cases and regulatory changes, working with the Trade Compliance Team and Group Legal to embed sanctions procedures in business processes. You’ll develop the team, drive governance improvements, and promote sanctions awareness across the organisation. This is a chance to impact risk management at a global scale within a leader in energy trading.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working options
• competitive salary and annual raise
• paid parental leave
• diverse and inclusive culture
• wide range of training and development programmes
• opportunity to work internationally

Responsibilities

• Lead the global sanctions compliance programme, owning policy, procedures, standards and controls
• Serve as custodian and point of contact for policy changes and questions
• Support High Risk Committee decision‑making and advise senior leadership on sanctions risks
• Provide operational sanctions advice to business units, Compliance Advisors, and Compliance Operations
• Update and deliver sanctions training to the business and compliance teams
• Upskill and develop junior compliance staff in sanctions support
• Identify operational, regulatory, and technical sanctions risks and assess them using Shell methodologies
• Recommend and implement sanctions mitigations, process improvements, and governance changes
• Monitor global sanctions regulatory changes and communicate updates clearly to the business
• Maintain knowledge of the T&S business to integrate sanctions procedures into processes
• Promote sanctions risk awareness across the organisation

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in legal, compliance, or regulatory roles with hands‑on sanctions expertise
• Experience briefing senior leadership on high‑visibility sanctions issues and articulating risks and mitigations
• Ability to perform holistic analysis of transactions and determine appropriate actions
• Experience interpreting regulatory changes in sanctions, export controls, and customs and assessing business impact
• Experience designing and implementing compliance management frameworks and systems (preferred)
• Experience drafting policy documents in the sanctions space
• Strong track record of stakeholder engagement and liaison with government agencies (preferred)
• Stakeholder engagement
• Clear communication
• Analytical thinking
• Sanctions and export controls expertise
• Regulatory analysis and risk assessment
• Compliance frameworks and governance

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