Finance Data Analyst

After starting a mere 10 years ago, Octopus is the largest energy supplier in the UK. We’ve built the technology to serve millions of energy customers and handle the billions of pounds worth of customer and third party transactions that this entails. As Octopus has grown, so too has the complexity, variation and scale of our cost base. We’re looking for a curious, detail-driven part or fully qualified accountant with data skills to help us truly understand, validate, and control our cost base. This role sits at the intersection of finance, data, and the wider business; giving you ownership over how costs flow through the accounts and how they impact our reporting.

You’ll work closely with our Finance and Gross Margin teams to build and maintain a robust cost accruals process, partner with other teams across the business to understand how costs arise in the real world, and turn that insight into scalable, automated processes. If you enjoy getting under the hood of complex data, improving controls, and building new processes and systems, this is a role where you can have a big impact. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of finance and data in an award winning team for a high growth business at the forefront of the net zero transition.

What You’ll Do

• Become a subject matter expert in our cost base in the UK, including how these costs are validated and settled.
• Partner with teams across the business (e.g. Operations, Accounts payable and many others) to understand how costs work and build this understanding into our validation and accrual process.
• Work with Finance and Gross Margin teams to build a robust cost accrual model to reconcile and validate our cost base reporting, and identify, report and analyse any associated risks and opportunities on a monthly basis.
• Build pipelines to automate the entry of invoices into Netsuite from external systems, and partner with teams across the business to build a process for invoice validation.
• Work with our Global Retail teams to roll out cost validation solutions globally.

What You’ll Need

• Fully or partly qualified and actively studying towards an accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent).
• Strong SQL and Excel knowledge.
• Experience working in management accounts and an understanding of month end accounting, accruals and finance systems (e.g. Netsuite).
• Highly data literate and numerate, with great attention to detail - you are able to make sense of lots of data, discover trends and patterns.
• Great communicator - can clearly articulate complex technical information to non-technical colleagues.

Nice to have but not essential

• Experience working in the energy industry, bonus if you have worked with settlement information before.
• Ability to code in Python.
• Experience with building dashboards (e.g. in Databricks or Streamlit).
• Experience in modern data development, using modelling tools such as dbt, Lakehouses such as Databricks, and collaborative codebases such as git.

We aren’t necessarily looking for someone who is “10-out-of-10” in all these areas, but rather someone who has good experience in most of them, combined with a flexible and enthusiastic approach.

Benefits

• Salary: 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.
• Octopus Energy Group has a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker, with autonomy and co-owners on projects that break new ground.
• We were named the UK’s top company to work for and ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024.
• Our Group CEO 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.
• Octopus Employee Benefits – visit our UK perks hub for details.

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you.

P.S. Our process usually takes up to 4 weeks, but we’ll always do our best to flex around what works for you. Along the way, you’ll chat with our recruitment team and your Recruiter will help you throughout different stages.

Got any burning questions before then? Drop us a message at talent@octoenergy.com and we’d love to help!

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