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About the Role

We are a market-leading, mission-driven organisation focused on accelerating the transition to a net-zero economy through electric vehicle adoption. As we enter a significant period of growth, we are scaling our FP&A team to support our increasingly complex financial landscape. This is a high-growth opportunity for an analytically sharp professional looking to build a career in commercial finance. Joining as an Analyst, you will sit close to the data, working across financial planning, cash management, and data-driven business partnering. You will be translating large, complex datasets into accurate, decision-ready insights that shape how our rapidly expanding leasing business operates.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update short-term and long-term cash flow forecasts (3-statement modelling), monitoring cash positions across various funding facilities and operational activities.
• Write, maintain, and optimise SQL queries in Databricks to extract and transform data from large operational datasets.
• Identify anomalies and document issues with clear business context as the first line of defence for data quality.
• Track actual performance against budget, analyse variances, and identify key drivers.
• Develop and maintain FP&A dashboards ensuring they remain accurate and fit-for-purpose.
• Produce ad hoc financial analysis for the CFO and teams across the business, connecting numbers to commercial outcomes.
• Partner with Tech and Product teams to ensure data infrastructure is fit for the FP&A function, translating finance requirements into clear briefs to improve forecasting accuracy and scalability.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, data analytics, or a similar analytical role.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Expert-level Excel / Google Sheets skills.
• High accuracy orientation.
• Solid understanding of how the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow relate to each other.
• Comfortable working with imperfect data.
• Ability to size the materiality of a data problem and communicate it clearly.
• Clear written and verbal communication, particularly when explaining data limitations or financial assumptions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Genuinely motivated to apply financial and technical skillset to play an important role in the FP&A team and help drive a business tackling climate change.

Skills

• SQL
• Databricks
• Excel
• Google Sheets
• Data visualisation tools (Power BI, Looker)
• Python

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 1-2 years

Education Level

• Part-qualified or studying towards ACCA, CIMA, or ACA is a bonus

Salary/Compensations

• Salary is discussed during the recruitment process

Benefits

• Perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits

About the Company

• Electric Car Leasing
• Greener. Fairer. Future.
• Market-leading, mission-driven organisation focused on accelerating the transition to a net-zero economy through electric vehicle adoption.
• Scaled the business to 50,000 cars on the road and ambitions of beyond 100,000 in the next 24 months.
• 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.
• Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
• Named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025.
• Voted 50 best places to work in 2022 by Glassdoor.
• Dog friendly company.

Equal Opportunity

• We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively.
• We’re totally fine with you using AI as a tool to help prepare too.