Finance Transformation Lead: Platform & AI Innovation

Octopus Energy Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Energy Group is seeking a Finance Transformation Manager to own the platform vision for Finance and lead cross-functional collaboration with Product & Tech to shape our leasing and billing platform. You will synthesise priorities across all Finance functions, define target outcomes, and drive long-term transformation with hands-on delivery mindset.

You will translate complex finance processes into clear requirements for engineering and product teams, design end-to-end finance workflows,

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in consulting, finance transformation, finance systems, or finance-technology advisory, with accountability for delivery rather than contribution.
• Experience shaping requirements for finance systems that connect billing, accounting, reporting and operational finance — you understand how data moves from a contract through to a report or regulatory return.
• A consulting or internal-consulting background, with clear evidence of getting up to speed on unfamiliar finance processes quickly and driving structured problem solving independently.
• The ability to translate finance needs into requirements technology and product teams can build from.

Responsibilities

• Own the finance requirements for the development of our leasing and billing platform, ensuring it supports securitisation reporting, accounting treatment and day-to-day operational finance
• Translate complex finance processes into clear, testable requirements that engineering and product teams can build from
• Design and build new finance processes end to end and hand them over so they run reliably without you
• Identify and remove manual BAU work across Financial Operations, Financial Control, FP&A, Credit and Capital Markets
• Lead the practical deployment of AI to automate repetitive finance tasks, applying rigorous cost/benefit judgement
• Work collaboratively across Finance, Data, Product and Operations on problems that don’t sit neatly within one team’s remit
• Help drive AI and data literacy across the Finance team

Skills

Finance transformation

Requirements gathering

Process improvement

Data analytics

Tools

SQL

Job description

Octopus Energy Group is seeking a Finance Transformation Manager to own the platform vision for Finance and lead cross-functional collaboration with Product & Tech to shape our leasing and billing platform. You will synthesise priorities across all Finance functions, define target outcomes, and drive long-term transformation with hands-on delivery mindset.

You will translate complex finance processes into clear requirements for engineering and product teams, design end-to-end finance workflows,