This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of data and finance, providing real ownership over costs and impacting the company's reporting processes.
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 using SQL and dbt in order to reconcile and validate our cost base reporting, and identify, report and analyse any associated risks and opportunities on monthly basis;
Utilise SQL and Python to develop 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.
Strong SQL and Excel experience;
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;
Experience with building dashboards (eg. in Databricks or Streamlit);
Great communicator - can clearly articulate complex technical information to non technical colleagues.
Fully or part qualified and actively studying towards an accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent);
Experience working in the energy industry, bonus if you have worked with settlement information before
Ability to code in Python;
Experience in modern data development, using modelling tools such as dbt, Lakehouses such as Databricks, and collaborative codebases such as git.
Octopus Energy is a dynamic EnerTech company focused on transforming the energy sector by providing 100% sustainable energy solutions. Our mission is to drive the global renewable energy revolution and make clean energy more accessible and equitable for everyone.
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