Strategic Finance Business Partner

Octopus Energy

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London, UK, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2025-01-29

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

At Octopus Energy, we're all about clean, green energy with transparent pricing and a relentless commitment to customer experience.

Join our global team dedicated to sustainability and green tech, where energy is good for the planet and your soul 💚

We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity.

We don’t hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all whilst being themselves.

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Business Partner to join our Strategic Finance team at Octopus Energy and support our International Energy Supply businesses.

You will be managing financial performance, engaging in planning & analysis and bringing alive insight around the actual and expected results of our energy supply businesses.

You'll support & guide leadership teams and colleagues in the business units and be actively involved in acquisitions of customer books or supply business entities as opportunities arise. You will work closely with both business unit leadership teams, Group Reporting, and the Group CFO.

What you'll do...

Lead the preparation of budgets and month-end reporting, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment with Finance teams across business units.

Collaborate with Finance teams to accurately forecast cash flow and plan short-to-medium-term funding requirements.

Drive continuous improvement of financial analysis and reporting tools and process through best practice sharing and knowledge exchange across Finance teams.

Identify and manage economic trade-offs across the business (growth, returns, cash), including evaluating impact of new lines of business (products, services) and other investments made by Octopus Energy Group

Monitor actual performance vs plan, including diagnostic and action plan if needed (working together with the business)

Contribute to the preparation of month-end reporting packs, board packs and other strategic meeting material for Octopus Energy Group

Engage with the Group CFO, broader senior management team and investors regularly across a number of areas

Support strategic M&A/fundraising/capital structure activity within the group

Work on financial planning and analysis across the Energy Supply segment of a very complex business - owning, developing and validating the both near-term and long-term (5+ year) business models and other key business tools

What you'll need...

Be excited about tackling the urgent issue of climate change through supporting a high-growth business leading the energy transition; experience in energy would be an advantage but not essential, but a strong desire to learn about the sector today and where it’s going tomorrow is a must

Be able to present complex information in simple ways

Experience in building Excel-based financial models and Powerpoint-based executive packs

Be ready to roll up both sleeves and get stuck into complex modelling but also talk 'big picture' with senior stakeholders that you interact with

Be fast-paced in approach but understand that change in organisation requires engaging with people in different ways

Be curious and open minded

An understanding in business finance and accounting but not necessarily ACA or CIMA qualified if you have the right experience

Previous experience in investment banking, consulting or corporate finance - including the preparation of board/steerco-level materials, due diligence for M&A transactions - would be an advantage but not essential

Language skills (French, Spanish, German) would be an advantage but not essential

💚 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 Group 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

🎁 Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits

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