Finance Transformation Leader: Platform & AI Enablement

Octopus Energy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly office

Access to Octopus Employee Benefits

Job summary

Octopus Electric Vehicles in the United Kingdom seeks a Finance Transformation Manager to own the platform vision for Finance, collaborating with Product & Tech to shape our leasing and billing platform. You will synthesise priorities across Finance functions and define target outcomes for long-term transformation, ensuring scalable, efficient processes.

As a hands-on manager, you will translate finance needs into technical requirements, design end-to-end processes, and deploy AI to automate

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in consulting, finance transformation, finance systems, or finance-technology advisory.
• Experience shaping requirements for finance systems connecting billing, accounting, reporting and operational finance.
• A consulting or internal-consulting background with ability to learn unfamiliar finance processes quickly.
• 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 (we use Claude Enterprise) 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

Consulting background

Translate requirements to tech

Tools

SQL

Low-code automation

Job description

Octopus Electric Vehicles in the United Kingdom seeks a Finance Transformation Manager to own the platform vision for Finance, collaborating with Product & Tech to shape our leasing and billing platform. You will synthesise priorities across Finance functions and define target outcomes for long-term transformation, ensuring scalable, efficient processes.

As a hands-on manager, you will translate finance needs into technical requirements, design end-to-end processes, and deploy AI to automate