Finance Manager - Business Transformation in London

Octopus Electric Vehicles is one of the UK’s leading electric vehicle leasing businesses, with salary sacrifice and consumer leasing at its core and funding backed by institutional investors through securitisation. As our business continues to expand rapidly, optimising core financial operations to match our growing scale is critical.

This role sits in the Finance Analytics and Solutions team, which is the process improvement hub for Finance; working across technical data & analytics skillsets to stand up reporting capability, design data-led processes, and support our technology team with finance requirements for new systems and products. Our objective is straightforward: support Finance through sustained growth of the business by driving genuine efficiency.

You’ll closely collaborate with our Product & Tech team to shape our leasing and billing platform. You will be responsible for synthesising priorities across all Finance functions, define target outcomes of success and help shape this long-term transformation.

What you'll do:

• Own the finance requirements for the development of our leasing and billing platform, ensuring it supports securitisation reporting, accounting treatment and day-to-day operational finance.
• Translate complex finance processes into clear, testable requirements that engineering and product teams can build from.
• Design and build new finance processes end to end and hand them over so they run reliably without you.
• Identify and remove manual BAU work across Financial Operations, Financial Control, FP&A, Credit and Capital Markets.
• Lead the practical deployment of AI (we use Claude Enterprise) to automate repetitive finance tasks, applying rigorous cost/benefit judgement.
• Work collaboratively across Finance, Data, Product and Operations on problems that don’t sit neatly within one team’s remit.
• Help drive AI and data literacy across the Finance team.

What you'll need:

• 4+ years experience in consulting, finance transformation, finance systems, or finance-technology advisory, with accountability for delivery rather than contribution.
• Experience shaping requirements for, implementing or advising on finance systems that connect billing, accounting, reporting and operational finance.
• A consulting or internal-consulting background, with clear evidence of getting up to speed on unfamiliar finance processes quickly and driving structured problem solving independently.
• The ability to translate finance needs into requirements technology and product teams can build from.

Nice to have:

• In-house operating experience after consulting, ideally in a fast-moving scale-up or comparably autonomous environment.
• Exposure to financial services, energy, leasing, billing, securitisation or other complex finance and operational systems.
• Finance process improvement, workflow automation, data analytics, SQL or low-code automation experience.
• Practical AI literacy — you’ve used AI tools to improve real processes.
• A track record of building processes and operating models, not only producing recommendations.

Why else you'll love it here:

Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024.

Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We are a dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies.

The electric revolution has arrived - and from 2035 you’ll no longer be able to buy a new petrol or diesel car in the UK. We’re building a whole new way for drivers to join the electric charge and not only learn about and shop for their EV online, but experience a 'lease for life' through an industry changing customer experience.

Please note we use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively. If you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort.

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success.