Full-Time

Financial Analyst

Posted on 1/11/2023

Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud-based renewable energy service

Data & Analytics
Energy

Senior

Houston, TX, USA

Required Skills
Kubernetes
Python
Sales
Airflow
Jupyter
Data Science
Git
Apache Spark
Postgres
Tableau
AWS
Pandas
Terraform
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Is curious and self-driven, who can take the initiative to search for answers themselves
  • Is capable of working in a fast moving unstructured environment, who can quickly assess and challenge what's needed, prioritize tasks and deliver solutions
  • Is passionate about applying data and analytics to solve problems and automate tasks
  • Has a strong technical skill set and experience in technologies listed above, to contribute individually, as well as lead
  • Brings a proven record of managing teams of data analysts to deliver great tools and tangible outcomes
  • Can inspire, train and lead the people around them
  • Is passionate about contributing to the energy transition, and being part of a company that is manically focused on helping our customers and society reach Net Zero
Responsibilities
  • Your focus will be on analytics, blending a data analyst role with an analytics engineer: you'll work across the whole data lifecycle to bring insights to teams such as operations, sales, and marketing
  • Work with the leadership team and other functions to understand priorities and data requirements, and scope new data projects and products
  • Lead the building & maintenance of new data tools including data apps, BI dashboards, reports and automation pipelines
  • Lead one-off analyses and deep dives, and present actionable findings
  • Recruit, develop and mentor team members
  • Work closely with other parts of the data science and data platform team and be an active contributor and leader in the global Octopus data community
  • Advocate for a culture of transparency, trust, reliability and reproducibility in data
  • You'll be responsible for reporting and analytics across the whole customer experience and supply business including:
  • Financial reporting, debt and billing
  • Acquisitions, sales and marketing
  • Operations: customer contact, feedback and team productivity
  • Risk management, procurement and pricing
  • Regulatory reporting
  • In this role you'll be building tools on top of our data platform with the support of our exceptional international data platform team. The core technologies that make up the platform are:
  • Jupyter, Python, pandas and data science stack for analysis
  • Postgres as primary storage for most of our back end applications
  • Tableau and Streamlit for BI dashboards and data apps
  • AWS as our cloud provider
  • Databricks Delta Lake as our data lake and cloud data warehouse
  • Airflow purely for job scheduling and tracking
  • Spark for data processing
  • Dbt for data modelling
  • Presto and SparkSQL for analytics
  • Kubernetes, Git, Circle CI, Prometheus, Grafana and Terraform for infrastructure, version control, continuous deployment and monitoring
Desired Qualifications
  • Has experience in customer experience and/or energy retail (this is a but not a hard requirement, we will consider candidates from other sectors)

Octopus Energy is on a mission to transform energy globally, faster and cheaper than anyone imagined. They are are relentless in driving the smart grid technologies that'll deliver cheaper green electricity to fuel our homes, businesses, cars and heating.

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$2.6B

Headquarters

, United Kingdom

Founded

2016

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

13%
INACTIVE