Finance Transactional Manager

Octopus Energy

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London, UK, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2024-02-07

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

We're on a mission to make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.

That means making power greener, smarter, and more affordable for everyone.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do: with always-fair prices, transparency and outrageous customer service.

We drive system change: with transformative tech to make renewable energy the norm and end global reliance on fossil fuels.

Octopus Energy Group is made up of 10 businesses spanning 6 countries across 3 continents, including: Octopus Energy Retail, Kraken Technologies, Octopus Energy Generation, Kraken Flex, Octopus Electric Vehicles, and the Octopus Centre for Net Zero. More on OEG @ octopusenergy.group

We're looking for a highly motivated Finance Transactional Manager to join our fast paced and fast growing team to manage and support AP & AR teams.

Reporting into our Finance Transformation Manager, you will be part of a fun and exciting team and company that's supportive of your growth and progression!

What you'll do

Manage, lead, motivate, support and develop teams across AR & AP with 20+ specialist

Ensure invoices, expenses and payments are raised or processed accurately, paid on time and matched to banks and ledgers.

Enforce processes and fraud controls with the use of multiple systems

Ensure +90 day aging is minimal and supplier reconciliations are conducted on a monthly basis

Create and send reports on AP & AR teams to support growth and change, as well as prompt payment code reporting

Processes are efficient and documented for training and audit purposes

Manage and meet compliance deadlines, month-end and year-end reporting

Build and maintain rapport with stakeholders

Work with our transformation team to support implementation of new and enhanced processes and systems

Point of escalation and handle complex queries

Assisting on audit and ad hoc projects where necessary

What you'll need

Previous experience as a Group Finance Transactional Manager in a large company with over 45 companies in the portfolio and preferably over multiple industries including energy, licensing and manufacturing

Confident in communicating and problem solving across all levels of the business

Agile approach and adaptable to a changing working environment

Demonstrable experience of process improvement with a continuous improvement mindset

Strong technical skills with multiple large and small ERP systems, OCR, banks, expense and people systems

Excellent attention to detail and not afraid to get your hands dirty

Be in the London office twice a week to support and enhance team morale

Be able to work in a high volume, entrepreneurial environment - speed and accuracy are key!

Why else you'll love it here

Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!

Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership

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