His predecessor, Judy Boynton, was the latest casualty of the company’s recent overstating-of-reserves scandal – she was demoted from the finance director post in April. Group controller Tim Morrison took over the job in the interim.

Voser, who starts his new role in London on October 4, is chief financial officer (CFO) of Swiss power and automation group ABB. He had previously spent 1982 to March 2002 at Shell in several finance and business roles in Switzerland, the UK, Argentina and Chile