Finance Data Manager

At Octopus Energy Services, we're at the forefront of the energy revolution, committed to accelerating the global transition to a sustainable future. The widespread adoption of low carbon technologies is critical to achieving net-zero emissions and combating climate change. Our mission is to make these innovative solutions not only environmentally friendly but also as cost-effective and accessible as possible, ensuring a greener, more affordable energy landscape for everyone.

 

As a Finance Data manager, you will play a critical role in driving our business forward. You will work closely with our supply chain, commercial and operations teams to provide cleaned, up-to-date information and data-driven insights that inform business decisions and improve our competitiveness and scalability. In the role, you’ll work on some of the biggest challenges facing the organisation and leverage the latest technologies to answer these problems.

Maintain, improve and coordinate monthly financial reports for C-suite

Create, maintain and optimise reporting for various different streams of cost information

Use dbt and create semantic layers to inform AI enabled dashboards, reports, and visualisations

Analyse and interpret data to track and improve commercial and operational performance

Collaborate with supply chain and operations teams to identify opportunities for growth, optimisation and better service delivery

Provide ad-hoc analysis and support as required

A passion for sustainability and the drive to make a positive impact on the world

Experience working within a finance team and senior stakeholders

Proficiency in writing robust, performant SQL queries

Some experience building robust data pipelines, using Python and dbt

Strong analytical skills, commercial interest, and the ability to distinguish between what matters and what doesn't

Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Comfortable manipulating and analysing data in a scripting language 

Python as our main programming language

DBT for data modelling

Databricks as our datalake platform

Kubernetes for data services 

Orchestra for task orchestration

Terraform for infrastructure

Lightdash for data applications

Airflow and Astronomer for job scheduling and tracking

Circle CI for continuous deployment

Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage

Spark for data processing

SparkSQL for analytics

💚 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 were recently named the UK's top company to work for, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. 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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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 ----- and we’d love to help!