What you’ll do...

• Lead on the development and maintenance of evergreen and bespoke valuation model(s) across the Group, assimilating entity-level models spanning four business units, two dozen-plus entities and over a dozen active country presences into Group-level outputs.
• Collaborate with the CFO and leadership team to develop capital structure strategies, ensuring alignment with long-term financial goals.
• In addition to engagement on capital structure, funding strategy & execution, support Group CFO with investor relations requests including Q&A, presentations and visits (frequent visitors to headquarters). You will be involved in building relationships with and marketing our business to a wide variety of leading global investors. You will also support our relationships with our existing investors & our board.
• Help to manage existing debt facilities and support debt issuance and refinancing projects as well as lending and ratings relationships. Partner with entity-level counterparts in asset finance parts of the Group.
• Help to define the future capital structure and funding strategy of the Group at corporate and entity levels. Support debt and equity funding projects and other projects that affect capital structure as the day-to-day finance lead, including leading on work streams such as modelling, information memorandum preparation and due diligence.
• Partner with Group CEO, CFO & Strategy leads as well as advisors to structure, negotiate, and complete funding rounds and/or financings.
• Partner closely with teams in strategic and operational finance, accounting and tax in a global role.

What you’ll need...

• Experience building and maintaining financial models.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage and interpret complex data.Experience or exposure to board and investor reporting and financial presentations.
• You should be credible at a senior level (internally and externally) and be able to run deal processes with a degree of autonomy.
• Experience in capital structure and fundraising processes is necessary, with ECM and/or DCM experience in public and/or private capital markets.
• Experience working with financial institutions, including banks and/or credit rating agencies.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, high ambiguity environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with attention to detail.
• Relevant experience in the clean energy/energy transition and/or technology industries is preferred; if you don’t have sector experience, you’ll need to demonstrate your knowledge and clear motivations to build your career in this sector through the process.

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 won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and 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 and most recently The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023
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